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French Prendre & Boire – Irregular Verb Exercises

Practice prendre and boire in the French present tense and passé composé. Four fill-in-the-blank pages each include 25 items and a matching answer key.
Grades
Grades 9–12
Pages
8
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Oct 18, 2021

Subject
Foreign Languages, French, Grammar
Topic
Prendre, Boire
Resource types
Worksheets
Answer key
Included

Product description

From the author

This download comes with 4 worksheets and answer keys to practice irregular French verbs.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Conjugate the irregular verb prendre in the present tense or use its infinitive as the sentence requires across 25 everyday sentences.

  • Conjugate the irregular verb boire in the present tense or use its infinitive as the sentence requires across 25 everyday sentences.

  • Apply the passé composé form of both verbs, including the correct auxiliary (avoir) and past participle (pris, bu), in context.

Teaching tips

  • Assign the two present-tense/infinitive worksheets before the two passé composé worksheets, since the passé composé exercises reuse many of the same sentence subjects and contexts in a more advanced form.

  • Have students self-check using the matching answer key immediately after each exercise, since each of the four pages has its own dedicated key.

  • Point out the irregular past participles pris and bu directly, since neither follows a regular -er/-ir/-re pattern that students may expect.

Skills covered

  • Present-tense conjugation — students supply the present-tense or infinitive form of prendre and boire across two 25-item pages.

  • Passé composé formation — students supply the auxiliary avoir plus the irregular past participle (pris or bu) across two 25-item pages.

  • Contextual verb use — every sentence embeds the target verb in an everyday food, drink, or daily-routine context rather than an isolated conjugation drill.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Do the present-tense and passé composé pages use the same set of sentences?

Yes — both versions reuse the same 25 sentence subjects for each verb (for example, prendre sentence 2 is about taking the bus with friends), so students practice the same context in two different tenses.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Irregular French verbs

  • Present tense

  • Passé composé

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