Passé Compossé PPT English & French Tenses Quiz

Consider these sentences:
Mary solved the math problem easily.
He has read that book twice.
They cleaned the kitchen last night.

What is the grammatical similarity among them?

Is this done in the same way in each sentence?

• Yes

• No

All 3 of these English tenses can be translated by just 1 tense in French. It is called...

• Présent

• Passé Composé

• Future

• Imparfait

Consider the sentences below, each demonstrating the use of the Passé Composé tense. Elle a fini ses devoirs en une heure Tu as mangé au restaurant la semaine dernière Ils ont choisi un nouveau président Focusing on the auxiliary verbs used in these sentences, can you identify a pattern or rule for their usage in forming the Passé Composé tense? To assist your analysis, here is the Present Tense conjugation of 'Avoir'.

• The pattern for forming the Passé Composé tense is to use the auxiliary verb 'être' with most verbs, followed by the past participle of the main verb.
• In the Passé Composé tense, the auxiliary verb 'avoir' is always followed by the present participle of the main verb.
• To form the Passé Composé tense, the auxiliary verb 'avoir' is used only with reflexive verbs.
• The pattern for forming the Passé Composé tense is to use the auxiliary verb 'avoir' with most verbs, followed by the past participle of the main verb.

Now that you know the present tense of Avoir and how to form the Past Participle, test yourself with the following sentences: J' (a)   + travaillé (travailler) I worked.

Choose the correct form of the verb 'avoir' to complete the sentence: Ils ____ travaillé.

• ont

• ai

• as

• avons

• avez

Choose the correct Past Participle form of the verb 'travailler' to complete the sentence: Ils ont ____.

• travaillu

• travaillé

• travailli

Complete the sentence with the correct form of the verb to match the subject "Nous".

• ont

• ai

• avez

• as

• avons

Complete the sentence with the correct form of the past participle of the verb "finir".

(a)  

Complete the sentence with the correct form of the verb "répondre" (to answer) in French.

• répondu
• repondre

• repondons

• reponds