French II
Le Passé Composé Guided Notes:
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* The passé composé is a tense in French to tell what happened in the
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* It is composed of _________ parts: the __________________ verb & the ___________
participle.
What are the helping verbs in English? _______________
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What are the helping verbs in French? _______________
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* Most verbs in French use __________________ in the passé composé, so we’re just
going to start with those.
Conjugate Avoir here:
*To form a past participle for ________ verbs, you take off the –er and add ________.
Turn these verbs into past participles:
1. parler ____________________
2. chanter _____________________
3. passer _____________________
4. regarder _______________________
5. jouer ________________________
* To make a verb in the passé composé ________________________, you put the ne (n’)
pas around the _______________________.
Example:_____________________________________________________________
Example:_____________________________________________________________
* ___________________, not all French verbs have regular past participles. There are
some you just have to _________________________.
Some irregular past participles that you’ve already seen:
Faire  fait
prendre pris
voir vu
lire lu
Translations: Use the passé composé to rewrite the sentences below in French.
1. My dog ate my homework.
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2. We swam at the beach.
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3. What did you do this weekend?
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4. The women saw a movie.
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5. First you did not danse well.
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6. Then You dansed better.
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7. I visited France last summer.
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8. Finally I read a good book.
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9. They dined with the president of the United States.
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10. Y’all ordered pizza this weekend?!
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11. She did not sing downtown.
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12. We didn’t go on a picnic Saturday.
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