French Teaching Resources. PowerPoint & Matching Cards: Perfect Tense+ Irregular Past Participles

The first slide quickly revises regular past participles using the following examples:

J’ai joué au foot.
J’ai fini mes devoirs.
J’ai vendu ma voiture.
Elicit from the students how to change the infinitive into the regular past participle.

Slide 3 explains:
If we take the verb faire and apply the rules for re verbs we get the following:
Faire – re = fai
+ u = faiu!
French doesn’t like this so the verb faire has the irregular past participle fait (which doesn’t follow any rules).

Slide 4 encourages the students to actively engage with the new vocabulary: working in teams, using their prior knowledge, knowledge of other languages and using a process of elimination to figure out the meanings. They then discuss the pronunciation (PPC = Perfect Pronunciation Challenge) and question each other (QFQs = Quick Fire Questions) before the teacher checks with the whole class.
The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill.

Then there are multiple choice slides followed by Qu’est-ce que c’est? slides.

The final slide has pictures of all the phrases. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If its the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins!

Expressions presented:

J’ai fait du ski. (faire)
J’ai bu un coca. (boire)
J’ai vu la Tour Eiffel. (voir)
J’ai lu un livre. (lire)
J’ai pris une photo. (prendre)
J’ai écrit une lettre. (écrire)
J’ai dit bonjour! (dire)

Cards: These matching cards can be used either to elicit key irregular past participles or to revise previous learning.

Expressions covered:

J’ai fait du ski.
Faire = to do/make
J’ai bu un coca.
Boire = to drink
J’ai vu la Tour Eiffel.
Voir = to see
J’ai lu un livre.
Lire = to read
J’ai pris une photo.
Prendre = to take
J’ai écrit une lettre.
Écrire = to write
J’ai dit bonjour!
Dire = to say

You may choose to have different levels of challenge. For example,
Level 1 = put the cards into 3 columns: the picture, the infinitive and the perfect tense phrase and discuss the pronunciation.
Level 2 = As above and then have quick fire questions from French to English, whereby 1 student closes their eyes and their partner reads out the French cards which the student must translate into English from memory.
Level 3 = As Level 2 but the quick fire questions are from English to

Following checking there are 2 fun games to play, either pelmenism or slap the card.