French Past Tense Practice: Dominoes Game for Imparfait and Passé Composé ~ Imperfect, Past Perfect

Help your French world language students practice the imparfait and passé composé with a game! Use this printable to make a dominoes game designed to play in groups of 3-5 students.

Who is this for?
This activity works well in middle and high school French classes that are learning imparfait and passé composé. Students should be comfortable with reading.

What is it?
Instead of dots, the sides of each dominoes has things like an infinitive, a helping verb (avoir or être), a verb correctly conjugated in the imparfait or passé composé, or a description of when to use the imparfait versus the passé composé. Students can match up their dominoes by making matches such as a verb to its meaning, or a verb to its helping verb, or a verb conjugated in the imperfect to a situation where you’d use the imperfect (not passé composé). Don’t worry: The resource includes instructions and examples.

What material does it cover?
• -er, -ir, and -re verbs
• “House To Be” or “Dr. and Mrs. Vandertramp” verbs (verbs that use the helping verb “être” and agreement in the passé composé”)
• Verb meanings
• Conjugations in the passé composé and imparfait
• Uses of the passé composé vs. the imparfait, specifically “setting the scene,” “a completed action,” “a continuous action in the past,” and “’used to’ (habitual action in the past)”

Which verbs?
This activity includes the verbs aller, avoir, boire, écrire, être, faire, finir, lire, manger, mettre, naître, parler, pouvoir, and voir.

What’s included?
This product consists of a 12-page PDF with instructions, examples, and tips, as well as the 60 unique dominoes–enough for one set (you’ll print a set for each group of students).

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