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French · Grade 4

Narrate with Reviewed Time Expressions

Learners tell what happened. They form the passé composé with avoir (regular participles in -é, -i, -u and the common irregular ones such as fait, pris, vu, écrit) and with être for movement and change-of-state verbs and pronominal verbs, with agreement (elle est allée, ils sont partis, nous nous sommes levés), and they place the negation around the auxiliary. They anchor events in time (hier, il y a deux jours, le lendemain, pendant, depuis), set the scene with c'était, il faisait and il y avait, and finally read and write the story of a trip.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 110 minutes
  • Telling the past check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Form the passé composé with avoir, using regular participles (-é, -i, -u) and common irregular ones (fait, pris, mis, vu, eu, été, bu, lu, écrit, dit), and spell -é / -er correctly.
  • Use the passé composé with être for movement and change-of-state verbs and for pronominal verbs, with agreement (elle est allée, ils sont partis, nous nous sommes levés), and place the negation around the auxiliary (je n'ai pas vu).
  • Place events in time with hier, avant-hier, la semaine dernière, il y a + time, le lendemain, pendant and depuis, and set the scene with the chunks c'était, il faisait (beau) and il y avait.
  • Understand and write a connected past narrative of a trip, with a setting, events in order, a problem and an ending.

Lessons

  1. J'ai fait, j'ai pris, j'ai vu 6 steps4 practiceabout 27 min
  2. Être verbs, agreement and negation 6 steps4 practiceabout 27 min
  3. When did it happen? Setting the scene 6 steps4 practiceabout 25 min
  4. Tell the story of a trip 6 steps4 practiceabout 31 min
  5. Telling the past check 9 questions at the end

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