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

B3-1 Avant la gloire, Jean-François Guèvremont travaillait...

B3-2 Un jour, son ami a téléphoné pour dire ...

B3-3 Au cours de l'été 2020, Rita Baga a participé ...

B3-4 Chaque semaine, elle créait des “looks” et complétait des défis.

B3-5 Le 3. septembre 2020, elle a gagné la deuxième place...

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

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

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

Montreal - a diverse city: imperfect tense singular

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

Which of these adjectives are in the masculine form?

Chose the correct adjective to describe the building. Un bâtiment __________.

Put the words in order to say what this person did on Mondays. Start with 'le'.

Choose the correct phrase to fill the gap. A midi, __________ à la cantine avec mes amis.

Which of these words tells you when something happened?

Which months are missing? janvier, février, _________, avril, mai, juin, juillet,__________, septembre, octobre, __________, décembre.

A mon avis, c'est une région traditionnelle.

A mon avis, c'est une traditionnelle région.

A mon avis, c'est traditionnelle une  région.

Which of the following are gender neutral pronouns?

Which is the correct verb? Chaque matin, iel __________ un café.

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