Name: COD et COI – French Pronouns Exercises Worksheet
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📝 Pratiquez les COD et COI – French Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns Worksheet

🔹 Introduction

This worksheet focuses on helping students master French direct and indirect object pronouns (COD et COI) such as le, la, les, l’, lui, and leur.

🔹 Objective
Students will build fluency and confidence by practicing correctly replacing nouns with the appropriate object pronouns in French sentences.

🔹 Order, Outline, and Steps
Includes a clear progression of exercises:

Identifying COD and COI
Rewriting sentences using the correct pronouns
Fill-in-the-blank activities
Sentence transformation for better understanding

🔹 Grades or Ages
Perfect for middle school to high school students (Grades 7–12), or anyone learning French at an A2–B1 CEFR level.

🔹 Implementation Format
Designed for print-only use, this resource is ideal for classwork, homework, practice sessions, or grammar review.

🔹 Answer Keys
🚫 No answer key included

🔹 Use Tags in Your Text
French grammar, object pronouns, COD and COI, le la les lui leur, French exercises, French worksheet, sentence practice, FLE, French language learning.

🔹 How to Use and Variations
Use this worksheet as independent work, bell-ringers, or in stations. It can also support oral practice or group discussions.

🔹 Standards
Supports French language learning goals aligned with most secondary curricula and CEFR language standards.

🔹 File Types
📄 PDF format – non-editable

🔹 Number of Pages
🖨️ 4 pages

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Tell a direct object from an indirect object in a French sentence, using the preposition à as the marker of the indirect one
Replace a direct object with le, la, l' or les and an indirect object with lui or leur
Place the object pronoun correctly before the verb, including before the auxiliary in a compound tense as in "Il ______ a vu"
Choose between competing pronoun forms when three are offered, as in la, lui and les for "Elle voit Marie"

Teaching tips

Pages one and two use the same eight sentences, so run them in order: students label the object first, then come back and replace it, which separates the identification step from the pronoun choice
The sentence list is deliberately plain - regarder, écrire, voir, parler, aimer, donner, rencontrer, téléphoner - so the difficulty sits in the grammar rather than in unfamiliar vocabulary
Page two includes "Il a vu le chien" in the passé composé, which is the one item where pronoun placement before the auxiliary has to be taught rather than assumed
The matching page works well cut into strips for a pair or group sort before students commit anything to paper
Two of the sentences are shortened between page one and page two - "dans le jardin" and "après l'école" are dropped - which is worth pointing out so students notice the sentence is the same one

Skills covered

Object identification - students label the COD or COI in eight sentences, distinguishing Elle regarde la télé from Nous écrivons à nos amis.
Direct object pronouns - le, la, l' and les replace the objects in sentences such as Ils aiment les vacances and Tu regardes ce film.
Indirect object pronouns - lui and leur replace à-phrases in Vous téléphonez à votre professeur and Nous parlons à nos amis.
Pronoun placement - the rewritten sentences put the pronoun before the verb, and one item places it before the auxiliary of a compound tense.
Discriminating between forms - the final exercise offers three pronouns per sentence, so a student must reject two plausible answers each time.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How do the four exercises build on each other?

They narrow the task step by step. Page one asks only which object is present, COD or COI. Page two returns to those same eight sentences and asks for the pronoun that replaces it. Page three drops the identification step and matches new sentences straight to a pronoun. Page four removes the free response entirely and offers three options per sentence.

Which pronouns come up?

Six forms. The direct object pronouns le, la, l' and les, and the indirect object pronouns lui and leur. All six appear in the matching column on page three, and the multiple-choice page sets them against each other as distractors.

What vocabulary do students need before starting?

Very little beyond common verbs and everyday nouns - regarder, écrire, voir, parler, aimer, donner, rencontrer, téléphoner, connaître, appeler, écouter, acheter, with objects such as la télé, le chien, les vacances, la plage and la radio. Everything difficult about the page is grammatical.