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Grammar worksheets on frenchteacher

This is one of those occasional posts I write to promote my frenchteacher website.

Some of the most used resources on frenchteacher.net are the grammar worksheets written for all levels. I used them a lot myself when I was still teaching. I would like to stress that the worksheets were not designed to just be handed out "cold", but are best used in class for oral exploitation to begin with. This has the benefit of generating lots of listening and reading input, albeit of not the most compelling type, along with helping pupils develop their grammatical understanding and accuracy.

The sheets are often a starting point for more creative drill work.

For more information on ways to exploit grammatical worksheets see this blog.

Note that the site also has notes on grammar to hand out. These may fit neatly with the worksheets below.

Below are the grammar areas covered by year group. In England Y7 means near beginners, aged 11. Teachers will find that they can use sheets from different year groups to match the progress level of their class.

Primary/Year 7


Year 8

PRESENT TENSE

NEAR FUTURE

PERFECT TENSE (Passé composé)

Battleships game for Perfect Tense (can be adapted online for other grammar or vocab areas)Present - perfect tense oral/writing drill (avoir reg)
Present - perfect Tense oral/oral/writing drill (avoir irregular)
Present - perfect tense oral/writing drill (avoir reg and irreg)
Present - Perfect tense oral/writing drill (être verbs)
Journey notes for oral exploitation - perf être verbs
Questions to practise perfect tense être verbs
Present - perfect tense oral/writing drill (reflexive verbs)
Present - perfect tense writing passage (mixed)
Worksheet for oral and written practice - avoir and Ãªtre verbs
Irregular past participles - kinaesthetic game
Questions in perfect tense
Various translation into French exercises
Perfect tense battleships - regular avoir verbs
Perfect tense battleships - irregular avoir verbs
Perfect tense battleships - Ãªtre verbs
Perfect tense battleships - reflexive verbs
Perfect tense battleships - mixed verbs
Le weekend dernier battleships - regular -er verbs
Le weekend dernier battleships - mixed verbs
Paired dictation perfect - Ãªtre verbs
Perfect tense: Ãªtre verb pairwork
Negatives - perfect tense (hard)
Pair work task to go with above - liste de vacances

OTHER GRAMMAR


Year 9

PERFECT TENSE (passé composé)

See also the Year 8 page for many other perfect tense exercises.

FUTURE TENSE

IMPERFECT TENSE

3 TENSES TOGETHER

OTHER GRAMMAR


Year 10-11

Tense recognition
Tense revision
Definite articles and partitives
Depuis and ça fait... que..
Perfect tense info gap oral task
Present to perfect tense exercise
Passage to write in perfect tense from infinitives
Perfect and Imperfect Tenses (translation)
Perfect and Imperfect Tenses
Pluperfect
Pluperfect (2)
Present participles
Present participles crossword
Adverbs
Adverbs crossword
Various tenses - battleships
Negative oral drills ne... pas
More negative oral drills - ne... plus/jamais/rien/personne
Two verbs together
Two verbs together (2)
"Après avoir" structure
Conditional mood
Conditional mood (2)
Conditional perfect tense
Verb tenses crossword - pres, perf, fut, imp, cond
Possessive pronouns
Articles and partitives
Adjectives
Present tense
Direct and indirect pronouns 
Relative pronouns
Using ce qui and ce que


A-level

AS level cloze exercise (1)
AS level cloze exercise (2)
AS level cloze exercise (3)
AS level cloze exercise (4)
AQA AS style cloze sentences (1)
AQA AS style cloze sentences (2)
AQA AS style cloze sentences (3)
AQA AS style cloze sentences (4)
AQA AS style cloze sentences (5)
AQA AS style cloze sentences (6)
AQA AS style cloze sentences (7)
AQA AS style cloze sentences (8)
AQA AS style cloze sentences (9)
AQA AS style cloze sentences (10)
Working out gender
Present tense irregulars crossword (1)
Present tense irregulars crossword (2)
Time expressions
Using infinitives
Tense revision - Eng-French translation
More verb tenses
Negatives
General grammar revision
P.D.O. agreements
Prepositions
Perfect and imperfect tenses together
Depuis, pendant, pour, il y a
SI clauses
SI clauses crossword
More tense practice
Passive voice
Passive voice (with faits divers)
Direct and Indirect Speech
Relative pronouns
Auquel, duquel etc
Prepositions
Conditional
Present subjunctive - regular
Present subjunctive - irregular
Je veux que.. il ne faut pas que..
Subjunctive oral/written drills
Subjunctive oral/written drills (2)
Subjunctive or not?
Subjunctive crossword
Subjunctive dominoes
Subjunctive sentences to translate
Subjunctive exercises
Rough guide to modal verbs
A2 level grammar revision sentences to translate
Answers to the above sentences.
A2 level grammar revision sentences to translate (harder ones)
Passive

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