Mme B's Classroom

Every unit has its own special set of verbs that we try to teach our students. “Le Printemps” lends itself to a wide range of verbs that we can authentically use in the classroom and so I have created this worksheet with those verbs specifically in mind.

Depending on the literacy level or grade of students in the classroom, diving into IR, RE or irregular verbs might be a little too much for them. But ER verbs are easy to remember, because they are regular, and they have the most impact when creating simple sentences during our writing time.

In this worksheet, we focus on a handful of verbs that also appear in our anchor chart at the start of the unit. We also review these verbs every time we read our short story, create short sentences or review how our weekend went.

Just like we did with Avoir and Etre and introducing verbs into the classroom, I don’t spend much time teaching them HOW to conjugate verbs. This is arguably a boring task and we want to make Core French fun and engaging. Instead, we have used these verbs a few times in class without even knowing how to conjugate, “Je vois means I see, now complete the phrase with me”, type scenarios.

Once we finally get to this activity, they have seen and heard each verb in the classroom a few times. We go over as a class how to read this conjugation chart and do a few practice runs, but that’s it. They know how to use the chart and with repetition through authentic activities, they will use the chart to create their own sentences and start to pick up on the pattern.

For younger grades, I tend to stick with Je/Tu/il/elle for simplicity. Plural is mentioned and listed on the chart if they want to use it but I don’t start expecting it from them until around Grade 6.

You can find this activity and more Le Printemp worksheets here on TPT.