Le passé-composé = the perfect tense

• The perfect tense is used to talk about the past.

• The perfect tense has two parts: 1) an HELPING VERB called auxiliary. It is the relevant part of

the verb avoir:

AVOIR

J’ai

Tu as

Il/elle/on a

Nous avons

Vous avez

Ils/ elles ont 

Le passé-composé = the perfect tense

2) A PAST PARTICIPLE. There are formed from the infinitive of the verb. They fall into 4 different groups:

1. -er verbs replace –er with –é j’ai regardé

2. -ir verbs replace –ir with –i j’ai fini

3. -re verbs replace –re with –u j’ai attendu

4. Some verbs have irregular past participles like:Faire – j’ai faitVoir – j’ai vuLire – j’ai lu

Write each verb in the perfect tense. For each one, you need part of avoir

and the correct past participle.

1.Je (finir)2.Je (aimer)3.Je (vendre)4.Je (continuer)5.Ils (examiner)6.Nous (décider)7.Tu (entendre)8.On (rougir)9.Pierre (attendre)

Homework for Tuesday 9th November:

Write a story about what you did last weekend.

• Check that you have used at least 10 different verbs.

• Make sure you have used a selection of dodgy verbs

• Use the perfect tense correctly.• Use connectives.• Add opinions: c’était = it was.