FRAME Key Topic -Le Passe Compose is about

FRAME Key Topic -Le Passe Compose is about… -expresses a completed past action and is often translated as the present perfect because it uses helping verbs. Main Idea -Using Avoir So what? (What’s important to understand about this? ) Main Idea -Using Etre: is it a house verb?

FRAME Key Topic -Le Passe Compose is about… --expresses a completed past action and is often translated as the present perfect because it uses helping verbs. Main Idea -Using Avoir Main Idea -Using Etre: is it a house verb? -conjugate Avoir as the helping verb -conjugate Etre as the helping verb (ai, as, a, avons, avez, ont) (suis, est, sommes, etes, sont) So what? (What’s important to understand about this? )

FRAME Key Topic -Le Passe Compose is about… --expresses a completed past action and is often translated as the present perfect because it uses helping verbs. Main Idea -Using Avoir Main Idea -Using Etre: is it a house verb? -conjugate Avoir as the helping verb -conjugate Etre as the helping verb (ai, as, a, avons, avez, ont) (suis, est, sommes, etes, sont) -regular participles: er-e, ir-I, re-u -most participles follow the basic rule So what? (What’s important to understand about this? )

FRAME Key Topic -Le Passe Compose is about… -expresses a completed past action and is often translated as the present perfect because it uses helping verbs. Main Idea -Using Avoir Main Idea -Using Etre: is it a house verb? -conjugate Avoir as the helping verb -conjugate Etre as the helping verb (ai, as, a, avons, avez, ont) (suis, est, sommes, etes, sont) -regular participles: er-e, ir-I, re-u -most participles follow the basic rule -lots of irregular participles: bu, lu, du, su, pu, cru, connu, eu, vollu, ete, fait, ecrit, dit, pris, mis -there are some irregulars: venu, ne, mort So what? (What’s important to understand about this? )

FRAME Key Topic -Le Passe Compose is about… --expresses a completed past action and is often translated as the present perfect because it uses helping verbs. Main Idea -Using Avoir Main Idea -Using Etre: is it a house verb? -conjugate Avoir as the helping verb -conjugate Etre as the helping verb (ai, as, a, avons, avez, ont) (suis, est, sommes, etes, sont) -regular participles: er-e, ir-I, re-u -most participles follow the basic rule -lots of irregular participles: bu, lu, du, su, pu, cru, connu, eu, vollu, ete, fait, ecrit, dit, pris, mis -there are some irregulars: venu, ne, mort *There is NO agreement between participles & subject *I t is MOST IMPORTANT that subject & participle AGREE So what? (What’s important to understand about this? )

FRAME Key Topic -Le Passe Compose is about… --expresses a completed past action and is often translated as the present perfect because it uses helping verbs. Main Idea -Using Avoir Main Idea -Using Etre: is it a house verb? -conjugate Avoir as the helping verb -conjugate Etre as the helping verb (ai, as, a, avons, avez, ont) (suis, est, sommes, etes, sont) -regular participles: er-e, ir-I, re-u -most participles follow the basic rule -lots of irregular participles: bu, lu, du, su, pu, cru, connu, eu, vollu, ete, fait, ecrit, dit, pris, mis -there are some irregulars: venu, ne, mort *There is NO agreement between participles & subject *It is MOST IMPORTANT that subject & participle AGREE So what? (What’s important to understand about this? ) We can talk about an event that has occurred by using the passe compose which is a verb made up of two parts, a helping verb and a participle.