Welcome to a French lesson
Bonjour classe
Can you tell me using a verb what
have you done yesterday, this
morning or before you came to this
class?
Le Passé Composé
Is an action completed
in the past
Objectives
1- Students will be able to conjugate French
verbs from the first group in the “Passé
Composé”.
2- The conjugation’s rules using Auxiliary
verb “avoir” or “être”
3- When The past participle’s Grammar
ending may changes for:
- Masculine
- Feminine
- Plural (feminine and masculine)
The passé composé has three possible
English equivalents. For example, j'ai
dansé can mean:
1- I danced (simple past)
2- I have danced (present perfect)
3- I did dance (past emphatic)
The passé composé is a compound
conjugation, which means it has
two parts:
1- Present tense of the
auxiliary verb (either
avoir or être)
2- Past participle of the
main verb
Rules:
- To put a regular verb in the past participle you should
remove the termination (ER), replacing it with an É.
- [ avoir or être in the present tense] + [past participle of the verb]
avoir/être
avoir
être
+
+
+
past participle
terminer terminé
monter monté (e) (es) (s)
Grammar ending
•
•
•
•
When the auxiliary verb is être, the
past participle must agree with the
subject
Masculine: none
Feminine: e
Masculine plural: s
Feminine plural: es
When the auxiliary verb is avoir, the past participle
may have to agree with its direct object
(We’ll do this next week)
Verbs avoir and être in the present tense
Avoir
(To have)
Être
(To be)
Je (I)
ai
suis
Tu (You)
as
es
Il / Elle / On
(He/She/It)
Nous (We)
a
est
avons
sommes
Vous (You)
avez
êtes
Ils / Elles
(They)
ont
sont
Practice:
Verbs using “avoir”
• Chanter : j’ai chanté / il a chanté
• Parler : tu as parlé / nous avons parlé
• Manger : ils ont mangé / elles ont mangé
Verbs using « être »
• Tomber : elle est tombée / Marie et Margaret sont tombées
• Entrer : nous sommes entrés (es) / Tu es entré (e)
• Rester : vous êtes restés (es) / ils ont restés
Closure
• Can a volunteer tell us how many parts
are they in the “passé composé?
• Can another volunteer tell us what are
they?
• What is the past participle for “terminer”?
• how do we conjugate “je (dancer)” in the
passé composé?
Merci beaucoup
et à la prochaine leçon