tense used to describe how things were or used to be in the past.

B1-1 Je demandais de l'aide.

B1-2 Je prends le train pour aller en ville.

B1-3 Je prenais la main de ma mère pour traverser la rue.

B1-4 Je tombais souvent.

B1-5 J’attends mes amis dehors.

B1-6 Je voulais jouer tout le temps.

B1-7 Je travaille dur pour mes examens.

Childhood: present and imperfect tenses, 'il y a' meaning 'ago'

French

School in France - then and now: -er verbs imperfect tense

Primary and secondary school: -er verbs imperfect tense, ordinal numbers

Childhood: then and now: key - RE and -IR verbs in the imperfect tense

Montreal - a diverse city: imperfect tense singular

Montreal - habitual and one-off past events: imperfect and perfect

Spring holidays: perfect tense with 'être', pronouns 'moi', 'toi', 'qui'

Celebrities: perfect and imperfect

Pupils are introduced firstly to -er verbs in the imperfect tense to describe habitual events in the past. The imperfect of common irregular verbs is added,  before pupils then contrast one-off and habitual events with the perfect vs imperfect tenses, practising this with known and new vocabulary.

How things used to be: imperfect tense, ordinal numbers

Put the words in the correct order. When I was eating fish, he wanted to share.

Match the parts of the verb croire - to believe, believing.

Put the words in the correct order to tell you where to leave your phone.

Chose the correct translation for 'sens'.

Chose the correct translation for '3 years ago'.

Childhood: present and imperfect tenses, 'il y a' meaning 'ago'

Lesson outcome