FRENCH HIGH-FREQUENCY VERBS CONJUGATION PRACTICE #3

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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. There are 150 conjugations across 3 differentiated conjugation challenges with a full answer key in each set, so 450 conjugations in total.

I use these kinds of workbooks in lots of different ways: for practice during the introduction phase, for independent choice in class time, for home learning, for practice and revision during vacation and at return to class, and for sub lessons - they’re really versatile, ideal for advanced intermediate into advanced French students who are developing their understanding of tense and mood in French, and working with more complex language and texts, including a broad range of authentic resources.

Grammar books are not particularly consistent with grammatical terminology, so in this context,the conditional perfect tense is I would have done or I would have been for example, and we often see this tense called the conditional past.

The workbooks focus on the correct conjugation of verbs, rather than usage, and I’ve found that when my students are able to provide the correct conjugation very quickly, and out of a specific context, they feel really confident that their conjugation skills are developing well.

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, with the conditional perfect tense in French, language learners do often try to conflate what they know about grammar in their first language with the grammar of the language they are learning. Students whose first language is English often use avoir instead of être as the auxiliary. Students do need to to have a good grasp of which verbs require which auxiliary, and of course, how to conjugate the***auxiliary verbs être and avoir in the conditional tense***, as well as the patterns for forming the relevant past participles, in order to ensure that they can form the conditional perfect tense accurately. In terms of the past participle, students begin to be able to predict it accurately, the more they see it, and construct it.

Though the workbooks focus solely on the correct conjugation of verbs, and do not look at word order in the context of full sentences, there are fixed conjugation patterns that students can learn, recognize 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.

The tenses are:

pluperfect tense (plus-que-parfait)
future perfect tense (futur antérieur)
conditional perfect tense (conditionnel passé)

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.

Have a look at this free French quick conjugation workbook sampler to see if this kind of workbook will work well with your students:

FRENCH CONJUGATION PRACTICE SAMPLER
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-verbs-conjugation-practice-sampler-12307809

Currently in my store I have quick conjugation workbooks for each of these verbs groups across the following tenses:

present tense (le présent)
simple future tense (le futur simple)
near future tense (le futur proche)
perfect tense (le passé composé)
imperfect tense (l’imparfait)
conditional tense (le conditionnel)
pluperfect tense (le plus-que-parfait)
future perfect tense (le futur antérieur)
conditional perfect tense (le conditionnel passé)

Have a browse in my store for more French grammar activities, with a wide range of French language teaching and learning materials, with special offer bundles and lots of freebies too - I’ve included a selection here for you to try.

MERCI BEAUCOUP ET BONNE CONJUGAISON !