Make French verb practice more engaging with these French Être and Avoir Present Tense Mazes! This low-prep grammar activity gives beginner French students focused practice with être and avoir conjugation, subject–verb agreement, choosing the correct verb in context, and correcting common errors.
Instead of completing another repetitive conjugation worksheet, students work their way through 5 easy-checking French grammar mazes, carefully reading each sentence and selecting the correct verb form to find the path from début to fin.
Designed for beginner French learners in Years 7–8, these French verb activities are ideal for introducing, practising, consolidating or reviewing the present tense of être and avoir.
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
5 French Present Tense Mazes
Maze 1 – Être: Present Tense
Practise the six present tense forms of être and reinforce subject–verb agreement.
Maze 2 – Avoir: Present Tense
Practise the six present tense forms of avoir in familiar French sentences.
Maze 3 – Être or Avoir?
Choose between être and avoir and select the correct conjugated form according to meaning and context.
Maze 4 – English → French
Read familiar English sentences and choose the appropriate French form of être or avoir.
Maze 5 – Avoir/Être: Find & Fix the Mistake
Identify incorrect verb forms and choose the correct present tense conjugation.
✔ Answer key for each maze
✔ No-prep, print-and-go grammar practice
WHY USE FRENCH GRAMMAR MAZES?
These French verb mazes help students move beyond simply memorising conjugation charts. Each activity encourages students to identify the subject, consider the meaning, select the correct verb form and check their sentence for accuracy.
The varied maze formats provide practice with:
- French être conjugation
- French avoir conjugation
- Present tense verb forms
- Subject–verb agreement
- Choosing être or avoir
- French sentence construction
- Recognising and correcting common conjugation errors
- Applying grammar in context
PERFECT FOR
- French beginners
- Year 7–8
- Novice French learners
- Present tense verb practice
- Grammar review and consolidation
- Independent work
- Pair work
- Fast finishers
- Homework
- Relief lessons
- No-prep French activities
HOW THE MAZES WORK
Students begin at début and follow the maze by choosing the correct answer for each sentence. Only one answer is correct, so students must use their knowledge of être, avoir and present tense conjugation to find the correct path to fin.
The maze format encourages students to slow down, read carefully and think about their grammar choices while providing an engaging alternative to traditional French verb worksheets.
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM: FRENCH V9.0 – YEARS 7–8 (YEAR 7 ENTRY)
Communicating meaning in French
- AC9LF8EC05 – Develop and begin to apply strategies to interpret, translate and convey meaning in French in familiar contexts
Understanding language and culture
- AC9LF8EU02 – Develop knowledge of, and use structures and features of, the French grammatical and writing systems to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts
This resource is also suitable for beginner/novice French learners internationally.
