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'.

Starter Quiz