Le passé composé en vacances - The French past tense on holidays with Mrs Vandertramp verbs.

This resource is an introduction on how to use the Mrs Vandertramp verbs in French past tense. It starts off by revising how to form the passé composé with verbs that take "avoir" as an auxiliary. There is an opportunity to formatively assess pupils' understanding on how to conjugate the past tense with avoir through a translation activity on MWBs, and the task is differentiated with support and challenge embedded within the instructions.
Once the pupils are familiar with avoir verbs, the lesson moves on to introduce être verbs through the use of a song. The pupils are expected to write down the past participles for the être verbs that they see/hear in the video. Again this activity is differentiated by outcome, the verbs that the pupils are expected to find are colour-coded by traffic light colours.
The pupils are also introduced to agreements of the past participles and tested on their understanding with a correct the errors activity.
Finally, the main task of this lesson is a worksheet which is, again, differentiated by outcome. The pupils are given the choice on where they wish to start on the worksheet depending on how confident they feel. This sheet tests their understanding on which verbs take avoir or être.
This lesson would fit seamlessly into a topic on holidays as all of the additional vocabulary is related to a holiday in Paris.