Tenses workbook – KS3-GCSE French

A structured workbook combining clear explanations, verb reference, guided practice and mixed-tense consolidation across five core French tenses.

What’s included:

• Present tense:
 ○ Regular -ER, -IR and -RE verb formation
 ○ Avoir, être, faire and aller, plus a wider bank of common irregular verbs
 ○ Connaître vs savoir
 ○ Conjugation, translation, error correction and guided writing

• Perfect tense:
 ○ Regular verbs with avoir and 6 key irregular past participles
 ○ Vandertramp verbs with être and agreement
 ○ Reflexive verbs
 ○ Conjugation, translation and mixed practice

• Imperfect tense:
 ○ Formation from the nous stem
 ○ Irregular form of être and verbs with an irregular present stem
 ○ Conjugation and translation practice

• Near future tense:
 ○ Verb formation with aller + infinitive
 ○ Conjugation and translation practice

• Simple future tense:
 ○ Regular formation and 12 key irregular stems
 ○ Conjugation and translation practice

• Mixed-tense consolidation:
 ○ 25 gap-fill sentences
 ○ 15 tense-correction tasks
 ○ 17 translation sentences
 ○ A matching task using a range of tenses and pronouns
 ○ An independent writing task requiring several time frames
 ○ A tense-comparison table, study tips and verb reference bank

• Full answer key:
 ○ Answers to all 32 exercises and the mixed-tense consolidation sections
 ○ Three progressive model answers for the guided present-tense writing task
 ○ Model answers and reflection support for the final mixed-tense writing task

• Available as a colour PDF and editable PPTX

Best suited to Years 8–10, with the mixed-tense and consolidation sections also useful for Year 11 Foundation revision. The workbook can be used in full or divided into sections for classwork, homework, revision and regular independent practice.

I hope you find it useful.

You might also be interested in these related resources in my shop:

• French tenses – KS3-GCSE grammar mat
• Tense consolidation – French GCSE worksheets (Foundation & Higher)
• Do it now tasks – Complete starter bank – French GCSE

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