Are your students randomly switching between passé composé and imparfait without really understanding why?
Many French learners can conjugate the tenses in isolation but struggle to choose the correct tense when reading, speaking, or writing in context. Students often overuse passé composé, confuse background description with completed actions, and freeze during narrative writing tasks.
This French grammar lesson bundle helps students move beyond memorising rules to understanding WHEN and WHY each tense is used through explicit teaching slides, scaffolded practice, contextual reading tasks, speaking activities, timelines, and guided writing.
Designed for Years 9–10 French and intermediate learners, this resource helps students progress from identifying the two past tenses to confidently choosing the correct tense in their own speaking and writing.
This comprehensive French grammar lesson bundle gives you everything you need to explicitly teach, model, practise, and reinforce French past tenses with confidence.
Designed for busy French teachers, this comprehensive lesson bundle includes both:
✔ A detailed teacher slideshow presentation
✔ A scaffolded student worksheet pack
PLUS Answer keys for easy correction
Students learn HOW to choose between the two past tenses. They learn to apply both tenses in realistic reading, speaking, and writing contexts.
Perfect for intermediate French learners, this resource helps students clearly understand when to use passé composé and when to use imparfait, rather than relying on guesswork.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Teacher Slideshow Presentation
✔ Clear explanation of l'imparfait and le passé composé
✔ Step-by-step tense formation examples
✔ Visual grammar explanations
✔ DR MRS VANDERTRAMP overview
✔ Contextual examples and model sentences
✔ Ideal for whole-class explicit teaching
Student Worksheets & Activities
✔ Conjugation practice activities
✔ Translation tasks using the imperfect tense
✔ Gap-fill narrative activities
✔ Mixed tense sentence practice
✔ Paragraph writing tasks using both tenses
✔ French reading comprehension with tense analysis
✔ Tense sorting activity
✔ Oral speaking prompts
✔ Interactive timeline activity
✔ Extension writing task
✔ Full answer keys included
PERFECT FOR
✔ French passé composé vs imparfait lessons
✔ Intermediate French grammar
✔ Years 9–10 French
✔ Revision and consolidation
✔ Assessment preparation
✔ Homework or independent work
✔ Relief lessons
✔ Explicit grammar instruction
TEACHER BENEFITS
✔ Ready-to-use French lesson bundle
✔ Includes teaching slides + student activities
✔ No-prep and easy to implement
✔ Scaffolded progression for student success
✔ Supports mixed-ability classrooms
✔ Saves planning time
STUDENT BENEFITS
✔ Builds confidence using French past tenses
✔ Improves understanding of tense choice
✔ Strengthens reading and writing accuracy
✔ Develops speaking fluency
✔ Encourages deeper grammar understanding through context
✔ Supports storytelling and narration skills in French
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
This French grammar resource makes teaching passé composé and imparfait clear, structured, and engaging. With explicit teaching slides and scaffolded student practice, teachers can confidently guide students from grammar explanation to independent language production — all while saving valuable prep time.
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM: FRENCH V9.0 – YEARS 9–10 (YEAR 7 ENTRY)
Communicating meaning in French
- AC9LF10EC02 – Use French language in exchanges to question, offer opinions and compare and discuss ideas
- AC9LF10EC06 – Create spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and textual conventions for familiar and some unfamiliar contexts and purposes, to engage different audiences
Understanding language and culture
- AC9LF10EU02 – Select and use structures and features of the French grammatical and writing systems to enhance meaning and create spoken, written and multimodal texts
- AC9LF10EU03 – Reflect on and evaluate French texts, using metalanguage to discuss language structures and features
