Une écrivaine francophone: perfect tense verbs like ouvrir, écrire & traduire
Lesson details
Learning outcome
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.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
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.
Teacher tip
For the speaking activity at the end of the lesson, students may prefer to make short notes of their ideas and keep them to hand as prompts.
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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.
est allée à la bibliothèque.
a visité la Tour Eiffel.
avons fait le tour du musée.
êtes venues hier.
sont descendus la rue.
ont regardé un match de foot.
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.
suis
suis
suit
suivons
suivez
suivent
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.
noun
adjective
infinitive
past participle
adverb
preposition
Q3.Find the English translations for these infinitives.
to treat, handle, to deal with
to die, dying
to write down, writing down
to destroy, destroying
to admit, to confess
to surprise, surprising
Q4.Identify the correct past participle to complete the phrase: Hier, nous avons fait du sport puis nous sommes __________ à la bibliothèque.
Q5.Translate 'les' in the following commands: 'écris-les!' and 'suis-les!'
Q6.Complete the following sentence: Hier, nous avons __________ de la lecture. (Yesterday we read.)
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