1. You will finally be able to say “was,”“saw,” and “did” in French!

2. Le passé composé = Avoir ou être + le participle passé

3. Another word for “auxiliary” is “helper.” The helper verb for the passé composé is usually avoir, but for SOME verbs it is être. We will learn more about the être verbs later.

4. For –er verbs, change the ending to –é. For example: mangeré

5. For –ir verbs, change the ending to –i. For example: finiri

6. For –re verbs, change the ending to –u. For example: répondreu

7. chanteré

8. parleré

9. écouteré

10. choisiri

11. grandiri

12. rougiri

13. vendreu

14. perdreu

15. attendreu

16. There are some irregular p ast participles: faire → fait voir → vu vouloir → voulu

17. The verb aller is one of the verbs that takes être in the past tense instead of avoir! So we don’t say: J’ai allé We say: Je suis allé

18. Put the verb in the passé composé: Je (manger): __________________ J’ai mangé

19. Put the verb in the passé composé: Tu (finir): __________________ Tu as fini

20. Put the verb in the passé composé: Elles (répondre): _________________ Elles ont répondu

21. Try to do the next questions on your worksheet by yourself!