Description
Looking for engaging ways to help students practice the French passé composé? Give your students plenty of opportunities to work with regular and irregular verbs, build confidence with conjugation, and use the past tense through a variety of games and activities.
This collection of French passé composé resources offers a mix of printable practice, speaking activities, classroom games, and digital activities to help you reinforce this important grammar concept without having to create everything yourself.
Designed for Core French, FSL, and French immersion, these passé composé practice activities work well when introducing the passé composé, reinforcing new concepts, or reviewing verb conjugation with intermediate French learners.
What’s included?
- Detailed grammar notes and practice exercises in French and English
- Worksheets, puzzles, and exit tickets
- Dice games, board games, and dominoes
- Speaking cards and Find Someone Who activities
- Task cards and a Scoot game
- A Trip to Paris PowerPoint project
- Boom™️ Cards for verb conjugation practice
- Digital listening comprehension activity
- Verb drill games and interactive slideshow activities
- J’ai… qui a… ? game
- Grammar posters
- A unit test for assessment
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Ways to use these passé composé practice activities
Use the materials throughout your passé composé lessons to introduce concepts, provide extra practice, encourage students to speak French, review before an assessment, or offer additional activities for students who need more repetition.
The variety of formats makes it easier to alternate between individual practice, partner work, movement games, and digital learning.
Who are these resources for?
These activities are suitable for secondary Core French and FSL classes, as well as middle school French immersion. Use them when teaching the passé composé or when students need additional opportunities to practise and review the past tense.
With a combination of structured exercises and engaging games, you can spend less time preparing activities and more time helping students develop their French skills.
Please note: Reflexive verb resources are not included in this version of the collection.
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Ashley Lefevre (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTAs always, Mme R’s recourses are awesome! Very well formatted, easy to read, and explains the concept very well for my students. It helped a lot. Merci!
Sarah Hillier (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTThis resource contains everything I needed to create my unit for passé composé for my grade 6 immersion class (we have an odd entry point, they start in grade 4). It is very thorough, easy for the kids to follow, and saves a TON of prep time. I can’t speak highly enough about this resource. Whether you’re introducing your students to passé composé or simply reviewing it, you need this.
Amy Teed (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTExactly what I needed. Merci beaucoup!
Miss Kiwan (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTThis was an amazing resource to use for passé compose! So many worksheets and fun activities for the students to do.
Meaghan M. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTThe product is amazing for reinforcing verbs and what is being taught in class. It was so much fun and engaging. We loved the Boom Cards. Will definitely be purchasing more!!
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Beth H. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTSo helpful to have all notes together. Saved me a ton of time.
Jean Rose A. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTThis bundle is fantastic! I love how there are a variety of exercises students can complete and all are well scaffolded.
Mme O’s Language Store (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTLove using the boom cards!!
Valerie Y. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTMme R to the rescue again! The passé composé pack is an essential–headed now to buy the imparfait! The BOOM cards are the best–even my students who traditionally struggle with mechanics are getting SO much better, and they say how much they like them. The SCOOT cards don’t work in the intended way during the Pandemic so I have learned to use them as prompts within an assessment housed by GoFormative. The speaking prompts can be a great way to reintroduce question structures, too. And yes, the difference between avoir and être is clear: separate at first, then a challenging sequence to distinguish them.
Rebeccah S. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTMy students really loved the Boom cards! I appreciated having extra exercise to give them for practice.
Angie R. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTI used this with my level 3s for a review and will be using it later to introduce the passé conposé with my level 2. As usual, Ashley’s materials are amazing.
Lee Ann Arguien (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTVery thorough as always. Your products are great for in class instruction and my rating is not for distance learning as I have not used virtually yet.
Shanda H. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTAs always, Mme R’s resources are thorough and well-done. We’ve used some of these activities as review at the beginning of the year and they are super easy to use and minimal copying as prep. They’re fairly easy to convert and put on a learning management system too. The included Boom cards are good for asynchronous learning.
Sarah T. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTLOVED this resource! I will use it every year!!!! Worth every penny. Thank you!
Le monde de l’immersion (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTUsed this with my 4/5s (EFI) – it was great!