Les pronoms compléments : le, la, les, lui, leur

Students identify whether a sentence's complement is a COD or a COI by asking "qui/quoi?" or "à qui/à quoi?" after the verb.

Students replace a direct- or indirect-object noun phrase with the correct pronoun (le, la, les, lui, or leur), matching its gender and number.

Students correctly order two complement pronouns in a single sentence, placing the COD (le/la/les) before the COI (lui/leur).

Students locate and correct a pronoun error in a given French sentence, such as a lui/leur mix-up.

Teach COD and COI identification (pages 1-4) before introducing the combined-pronoun rule on page 5, since the ordering formula assumes students can already tell the two pronoun types apart.

Use the "Astuce" (tip) boxes on pages 2 and 4 as ready-made memory prompts — qui/quoi? for COD, à qui/à quoi? for COI — rather than writing new ones.

Assign the two exercise pages separately: page 6 practices single pronouns, while page 8 requires the harder two-pronoun-ordering and error-correction skills, so it works well as a follow-up rather than a same-day pairing.

COD/COI identification — students distinguish a direct object from an indirect object by applying the qui/quoi vs. à qui/à quoi test, as in "Il parle à son frère."

Pronoun substitution — students replace a noun complement with le, la, les, lui, or leur while matching gender and number, as in "Il ferme la porte" → "Il la ferme."

Double-pronoun ordering — students apply the COD-before-COI rule to combine two pronouns correctly, as in "Je donne le livre à Paul" → "Je le lui donne."

Error analysis — students identify and correct a misused pronoun in a given sentence, such as "Il les parle souvent" → "Il leur parle souvent."