Present, perfect & near future – KS3 French time coherence worksheet

A two-page French grammar worksheet designed to help upper KS3 students understand how to handle three tenses together: present, perfect and near future. Students help Professeur Chrono fix his broken time-travelling machine by improving time coherence within sentences and then a short text.

Instead of practising tenses in isolation, this resource focuses on making sense of time in context. Pupils are guided to notice how time markers and meaning determine which tense is appropriate.

What’s included

• A narrative-based worksheet centred on La machine à temps déjantée to anchor tense choices in an engaging context
• A brief recap of each tense
• A sequencing exercise for students to organise events chronologically
• A task to identify and label tenses
• A conjugation task where students correct tense errors
• A gap-fill text where students choose and conjugate the correct tense
• A brief code-breaking activity as a reward at the end
• Available in PDF and editable PPTX, in colour and black-and-white

Designed for upper KS3, and ideal as a conceptual bridge towards GCSE tense work.

This tense worksheet focuses on regular -er verbs so that students’ attention is fully focused on how tenses make sense together, guiding them towards clearer, more logical use of time in French.

I hope this resource helps promote meaningful and engaging tense work.

For related KS3 grammar resources, you might like these in my shop:

• Fun tense starters – KS3 French grammar warm-ups
• Tenses at the Orsay Museum – KS3–GCSE French grammar worksheet

If you’d like to push time coherence further with your GCSE classes, you might also like:

• Tense consolidation – French GCSE worksheets (Foundation & Higher)