FRENCH CONJUGATION PRACTICE NEAR FUTURE SIMPLE FUTURE CONDITIONAL TENSES

GCSE FRENCH GRAMMAR KS3 FRENCH GRAMMAR KS4 FRENCH GRAMMAR FRENCH CONJUGATION PRACTICE

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3 tenses, 5 verb groups, 15 workbooks, 2,250 conjugations, answer keys and verb lists @ £1.00 each in the bundle ideal for advanced beginner French students who are beginning to work with compound sentences and longer texts, and generally developing their knowledge and understanding of conjugation and tense in French through to intermediate French students who are regularly working with texts featuring a range of tenses, including authentic resources.

The tenses are:

= simple future tense (le futur simple)
= near future tense (le futur proche)
= conditional tense (le conditionnel)

The verb groups are:

= regular French -ER verbs
= French -RE verbs
= French -IR & -OIR verbs
= high-frequency French verbs
= French reflexive verbs

My students really like this kind of grammar activity, as they like to work and learn independently, which is a successful way of varying teaching and learning methodologies - I’ve found it’s really important to avoid predominantly teacher-led learning in the languages classroom.

It’s definitely useful to remind students of a number of things when focusing on or revising tense and verb formation and conjugation. For example, language learners do often try to conflate what they know about grammar in their first language, and the language they are learning, and with students whose first language is English, I frequently see students looking for a word that is the equivalent of would, until they familiarise themselves with the fact that the notion of conditional is implicit in the verb itself, indicated in the verb ending. It’s also easy to confuse the simple future tense endings with the conditional tense endings, and for that reason, I do tend to introduce these tenses fairly closely together. This means we can compare and contrast the tenses, both in terms of formation and usage, and targeted practice helps to address any confusion really well.

Though the workbooks focus solely on the correct conjugation of verbs, and does not look at word order in the context of full sentences, there are conjugation patterns that students can learn, recognise and apply, ensuring that their spoken and written French is accurate, and that their understanding of French across the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing is robust. Students become very familiar and confident the more they work with conjugation, and these quick conjugations certainly help to embed that successfully.

Each set is structured as follows:

Two alphabetical verb reference lists: French-English and English-French.

Three conjugation challenges, each with 50 individual conjugations:

Conjugation Challenge 1: each verb conjugated in French across a range of pronouns, with students writing the corresponding English verb conjugation.

Conjugation Challenge 2: gives the infinitive of each verb in French, specifying the target pronoun. Students write the corresponding verb conjugation in French.

Conjugation Challenge 3: students write the corresponding French verb conjugation, and its infinitive, from an English prompt.

Notes and Next Steps template which students visit regularly - it really does encourage them to think about where they are now, how confident they feel, and what they might need to work on a little more to be absolutely sure of their conjugation skills. We also note down any new verbs we meet, which enables students to build up their own verb vocabulary bank. It’s a great tool to guide and inform whole-group discussion about learning and progress in general, which is a really successful and popular activity.

answer key: 6-page booklet which is absolutely essential in my view. Answer keys help students develop more independence in their learning, and provide them with an additional opportunity to engage with language and grammar. They also genuinely enjoy correcting their own - and particularly each others’ - work.

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MERCI BEAUCOUP ET BONNE CONJUGAISON !