Une écrivaine francophone: perfect tense verbs like ouvrir, écrire & traduire
I can write in the perfect tense, using a range of verbs with avoir and être and with different types of past participle, to describe the past life and writings of a Francophone writer.
- Year 10
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Une écrivaine francophone: perfect tense verbs like ouvrir, écrire & traduire
I can write in the perfect tense, using a range of verbs with avoir and être and with different types of past participle, to describe the past life and writings of a Francophone writer.
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Key learning points
- The past participles of verbs like ouvrir become ouvert, e.g. je découvre in the perfect tense becomes j'ai découvert.
- The past participles of verbs like traduire become traduit, e.g. tu détruis in the perfect tense becomes tu as détruit.
- The past participles of verbs like écrire become écrit, e.g. elle décrit becomes in the perfect tense elle a décrit.
- Past participles used with être must agree in gender and number with the subject of the verb.
Keywords
Auxiliary verb - a form of ‘avoir’ or ‘être’ used to form the perfect tense
Past participle agreement - when the past participle matches the subject in gender and number
Common misconception
Only irregular verbs such as 'faire' and 'avoir' have unusual past participles.
Verbs like 'ouvrir', 'traduire' and 'écrire' form their past participles differently to regular IR and RE verbs and should be seen as different types of verb when learning verb patterns.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Verbs expressing a change of state, location or condition use which auxiliary verb to form the perfect tense?
Q2.Match together the two halves of each broken phrase.
Q3.The SSCs [é], [i], [u], [SFC] and [SFe] are all pronounced in regular ...
Q4.Match together the verb 'suivre' (to follow) in the present tense.
Q5.Which of the following verbs use 'être' as the auxiliary verb?
Q6.Translate the following: he became a writer because he loves reading
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which verbs form their past participle like 'ouvrir', 'traduire' and 'écrire'?
Q2.Match the French word to its grammatical function.
Q3.Find the English translations for these infinitives.
