KS4 · French · Year 11
Un ado francophone : perfect tense, dictation, listening (Edexcel)
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Your learning goal
I can use regular and irregular verbs in the perfect tense to describe past events in the life of a teenager.
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Un ado francophone : perfect tense, dictation, listening (Edexcel): slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
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I can use regular and irregular verbs in the perfect tense to describe past events in the life of a teenager.
Key learning points
- The perfect tense is formed by combining part of 'avoir' or 'être' (the auxiliary verb) and a past participle.
- Verbs like 'prendre' and 'entendre' in the present also form their past participles in the same way: 'pris', 'entendu'.
- Verbs like choisir, partir, venir in the present also form their past participles in the same way: choisi, parti, venu.
- Verbs like 'traduire' and 'écrire' form their past participles in the same way: 'traduit', 'écrit'.
- Some common irregular verbs and their past participles are: 'avoir' ('eu'), 'faire' ('fait'), 'boire' ('bu').
Words to know
- perfect tense
- a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g. 'I said', 'she played'
- past participle
- verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb
Common mistakes
There are only three types of regular verbs and they form their past participles in the same way.
There are distinct groups of 'ir' and 're' verbs which form their past participles differently from the regular pattern (-i, -u). Students will find it beneficial to learn these verbs together as a group.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The dictation learning cycle contains tasks for both Foundation and Higher tiers; both are included in the video. The listening learning cycle contains tasks for Foundation, Foundation/Higher and Higher tiers.