Transcript The perfect tense in 20 minutes By Noredine Charef

The Perfect Tense in 20 minutes
The Perfect Tense Revolution
By Noredine Charef
MFL Teacher at Dubai British
School
The common approach
• Sequence 1: Perfect tense with avoir (regular verbs)
• Sequence 2: Perfect tense with avoir (irregular verbs)
• Sequence 3: Perfect tense with être (Mrs Vandertramp
verbs)
• Sequence 4: Perfect tense with être (focus on the past
participle agreement)
• Sequence 5: The perfect tense with avoir and être:
recap lesson(s)
NB: There are hundreds of resources on each of the
sequences above on youtube, the tes…but they never
approach them all together in one lesson.
Why is the common approach wrong??
• Too many sequences!!!!
• Core elements taught seperately!
• High level of confusion when bringing the
perfect tense together eventually…
Reason 1:
teachers deal with avoir seperately!
mmon mistakes then?
J’ai arrivé / je suis mangé
Again
avoir verbs only!!
participles…
No past participle
argreement with être
• when us
verbs!
• ing the être
verbs
in the
past.
They forget
to make
the past
participle agree
Elles sont parti
What is The Perfect Tense Revolution?
• All sequences must be visually accessible to pupils on
the first lesson onwards! Everything starts with one
question from which the learner will take a series of
decisions.
• No more teachers’ translation of “avoir” as to have
when it is used as an auxiliary in a sentence in the past
such as : J’ai mangé this could have disastrous
consequences with the new GCSE French in 2016 as
translation.
• Following lessons should dwell on sentence
extensions/ negative and reflexive verbs…
Key question: Is the verb I want to use part of the rainbow verb list
below?
(aka Mrsvandertramp verbs)
+MRS
Je suis
Tu es
Il/elle est
Nous sommes
Vous etes
Ils/elles sont
Is the vb you want to
use IRREGULAR ?
Apprendre (to learn) - appris
Avoir (to have) - eu
Boire (to drink) - bu
Comprendre (to understand) - compris
Courir (to run) - couru
Dire (to say) – dit
Écrire (to write) - écrit
Faire (to do) – fait
Lire (to read) – lu
Mettre (to put) - mis
Ouvrir (to open) - ouvert
These verbs take être
Mourir (to die) - mort
Retourner (to return) – retourné
Sortir (to go out) - sortir
Venir (to come) - venu
Arriver (to arrive) - arrivé
Naître (to be born) - né
Descendre (to go down) - descendu
Entrer (to enter) - entré
Rentrer (to return) - rentré
Tomber (to fall) - tombé
Rester (to stay) - resté
Aller (to go) - allé
Monter (to go up) - monté
Partir (to leave) - parti
apply the rue below
J’ai
Tu as
Il/elle a
Nous avons
Vous avez
Ils/elles ont
Auxiliary
etre
If
not
then
Auxiliary
avoir
VAN DER
TRAMP
Add a past
participle
As follows
DON’T FORGET to make the Past
Participle agree with the subject (who is
doing the action) if it goes with être.
For feminine, add an extra E
For masculin plural, add an S
For feminine plural, add ES
Eg.
Elle est allée
Nous sommes allé(e)s
Ils sont allés
Start here!
The Perfectatron!
Is your verb a
MRS VAN DER TRAMP verb?
These verbs take être
Infinitive (English) past participle
Mourir (to die) - mort
Retourner (to return) – retourné
Sortir (to go out) - sortir
Venir (to come) - venu
Arriver (to arrive) - arrivé
Naître (to be born) - né
Descendre (to go down) - descendu
Entrer (to enter) - entré
Rentrer (to return) - rentré
Tomber (to fall) - tombé
No
Rester (to stay) - resté
Aller (to go) - allé
Monter (to go up) - monté
Yes
Partir (to leave) – parti
If yes use être + past participle
Je suis
Tu es
Yes
Il/Elle/On est
Nous sommes
e.g. Je suis allé(e)
Vous êtes
= I went
Ils/Elle sont
J’ai
joué
For completed actions in the past:
did, made, ate, played...
If no, does the verb have an irregular past participle.
Yes
Common examples:
Apprendre (to learn) – appris, Avoir (to have) – eu, Boire (to drink) - bu
Comprendre (to understand) – compris, Courir (to run) - couru
Dire (to say) – dit, Écrire (to write) - écrit , Faire (to do) – fait,
Lire (to read) – lu, Mettre (to put) – mis, Ouvrir (to open) – ouvert,
Prendre (to take) – pris, Recevoir (to receive) – reçu, Voir (to see) – vu
If no, is your verb a reflexive verb? No
E.g. Se réveiller = to wake up, se laver = to wash, se
doucher = to shower, se coucher = to go to bed.
If yes use + être + past participle
Yes
DON’T FORGET to make the Past Participle
agree with the subject (who is doing the action) if it
goes with être.
For feminine, add an extra E
For masculin plural, add an S
For feminine plural, add ES
Eg. Elle est allée. Nous sommes allé(e)s. Ils sont
allés. Je me suis réveillé (m). Je me suis réveillée
(f).
No
If no, your verb
must have a
regular past
participle
If yes, use avoir
+ past participle
J’ai
Tu as
Il/Elle/On a
Nous avons
Vous avez
Ils/Elles ont
e.g. J’ai fait
du ski = I
went skiing
e.g. J’ai fini
mes devoirs
For –ER verbs, take off the ER and add
an É - Regarder→Regardé
For –IR verbs, take off the IR and add
an I - Finir →Fini
For –RE verbs, take off the RE and add a
U - Répondre → Répondu
Negatives: Je n’ai pas joué, je ne suis
pas allé(e), je ne me suis pas lavé(e)
Merci!