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

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 a game I learnt in Japan called Karuta. In Karuta the students spread out the picture cards in front of them. I then say the French and the students compete to touch the correct picture card first. Whoever touches it first wins the card. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. The students love this game!