French Stem Changing Verbs Exercise with Word Bank

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French stem-changing verbs — essayer, répéter, espérer, emmener, nettoyer, préférer, and others — are conjugated to complete sentences about family activities and the four seasons in this two-page grammar exercise. The first section gives six sentences about the Dussol family's weekend activities (biking, playing piano, volleyball, a country drive, camping) and asks students to rewrite each using a stem-changing verb cued in parentheses, following a modeled example with 'acheter.' The second section shifts to seasonal activities and asks students to select and correctly conjugate the right verb from a word bank of ten stem-changing verbs (acheter, célébrer, considérer, emmener, envoyer, espérer, essayer, posséder, préférer, protéger) to complete eight sentences about each season of the year. No answer key is included in the extracted file. Once students have secure present-tense conjugation of these stems, French subjunctive exercises introduce the next mood needed for hypothetical and opinion statements.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Conjugate French stem-changing verbs correctly in context, following a modeled example.
Select the appropriate stem-changing verb from a word bank to complete a sentence about seasonal activities.

Teaching tips

Work through the modeled example ('Elle achète des sandwichs') as a class before releasing students to the six independent sentences that follow the same pattern.
Remind students that not every verb in the seasonal word bank is used, since the instructions explicitly note that not all ten verbs apply.
Pair the two sections as a two-day sequence — guided practice with parenthetical cues first, then unguided selection from the seasonal word bank.

Skills covered

Stem-changing verb conjugation — students conjugate verbs like essayer, répéter, and nettoyer to match the subject of each sentence.
Vocabulary-in-context selection — students choose the correct verb from a ten-item word bank to complete a sentence about a specific season.

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Stem-changing verbs
French conjugation
Seasons vocabulary

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