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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“Super engaging, complete, and scaffolded.”
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“There was a nice balance between worksheets and games that allowed my students to really grasp the concept.”
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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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Monsieur le chevalier (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTExcellent resource! My students and I enjoyed using this material. The lessons adapt well to distance learning. Thanks!
Jennifer West (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTThank you for the excellent resource. It helped my class deeply!
Brittany W. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTWe paired this resource with another one to help us learn and practice Passe Compose effectively and in an engaging way. My students had a great time using the activities from here and it produced improved results from most of my students. A great variety of lessons and activities that flowed well into our classroom environment. My students in Grade 5 had great success with this unit!
Shalyn Boras (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTI loved this unit! It was everything I needed to successfully teach passe compose to my students.
Gradeness (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTI wish I could honestly say that all my students loved this, but every teacher has his dissenters – we can´t please everyone. I, on the other hand, had fun with this and saved a ton of time while updating some ancient material. I really enjoyed the speaking activities and will be supplementing with the Boom cards and Scoot as review activities throughout the year. Merci beaucoup!
Shelley C. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTThis bundle has everything you need to teach or review passé composé. Thank you for making such a comprehensive bundle.
Mademoiselle Ciel (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTI used this both virtually and in person, and it really helps with passé composé, which can be a tricky concept for learners
Liliana P. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTWhat an excellent resource! Mme R really knows how to put it all together. I introduce passé composé in Grade 9 and this is exactly what I need to do that. The students get booklets, which I print on coloured paper, games activities, task cards etc. It makes it so easy for me and clear and fun for the students.
Tammy D. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTThis is an excellent comprehensive resource. The slideshow, activities and boom cards all work together to explain, check student understanding and reinforce the concept. I have so many mini lessons that I use to teach the passe compose, but this ties everything together.
Allison Loftman (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTWished there was a digital version of worksheets for students
Mme B Classroom (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTGreat resource. Thank you for this!
Vanessa O. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTThis was a great review for students coming into Gr 9. Thank you!
Kim J. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTThis is such an amazing resource, easy for students to follow and understand. Low prep for the teacher!
Maria-Ann N. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTThis is an excellent repository of activities- I will only need to supplement with some reading and listening activities to make this review / practice of the passé composé complete! I will be using this resource every year for French 2-4- there’s something for everyone here!
Franco Resources (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTMy students enjoyed the practise and review! The instructions are very clear and well laid out! Thank you!