French verbs

French Verbs In The Leaving Cert Past Papers

By Elizabeth

FRENCH VERBS IN THE LEAVING CERT PAST PAPERS

Leaving Cert French Verbs

Leaving Cert French Exam

As students prepare for the Leaving Cert French exam, they find that going through the past papers is an effective way of studying. I couldn’t agree more! However, I find that students are not getting the maximum value out of these papers, in particular the reading comprehensions. Each reading comprehension is a treasure trove of grammatical constructions, vocabulary and verbs. In reading the comprehensions, students are looking for very specific answers, and this is what they will need to do during the leaving cert exam, so again, I agree that this is what you should be doing with the papers.

However once you have found the answers, and had them verified by your teacher, don’t put the paper down, never to be seen again. Use the paper to garner as much french as possible.

Reading Comprehension

One of the ways in which you could get more use out of exam papers is to go through each reading comprehension, and pick out the verbs from it. You can of course go a step further, and put these verbs into different tenses, but that is another blog! Did you know that in a typical Leaving cert comprehension, there are approximately 60 verbs! In my verb list, I have taken the verbs, put them into the infinitive, and categorised them into: irregular verbs, regular verbs, regular verbs with spelling particularities and reflexive verbs.

2017 Honours Leaving Cert Paper

I have a partial list here of verbs which came up in the 2017 Honours leaving cert paper. (full version available to subscribed members of French Notes). The verbs are taken from the 1st comprehension which speaks about how Tourism in Paris has been affected by various issues, and how the Parisien people are tackling the fall in tourist numbers. The full list of verbs is available on my website to subscribed members, and there are a number of years available, at both Junior and Senior level.

 

FRANÇAIS

 

 ANGLAIS COMMENT
Acheter To buy Regular ER*
Aider To help Regular ER
Aller To go Irregular
Améliorer To improve Regular ER
Augmenter To increase Regular ER
Avoir To have Irregular
Charger To charge Regular ER
Concerner To concern Regular ER
Croire To believe Irregular
Décider To decide Regular ER
Découvrir To discover Irregular
Déployer To deploy Irregular
Déposer To place Regular ER
Devoir To have to Irregular
Diminuer To decrease Regular ER
Dire To say/to tell Irregular
Encourager To encourage Regular ER*
Être To be Irregular
Expliquer To explain Regular ER
Éviter To avoid Regular ER
Exister To exist Regular ER
Faire To do/make Irregular
Falloir To be necessary Irregular
Financer To finance Regular ER
Former To form Regular ER
Fuir To flee Irregular

LEAVING CERT FRENCH PLAN…

If you were to sign up for our  Leaving Cert Annual Plan you would have access to..

  • Over 500 sample topic sentences on a wide-range of topics
  • Approximately 60 sample opinion pieces.
  • Diary Entries
  • Narrative writing technique & Phrases
  • Grammar section
  • Grammar exercises
  • Reading comprehensions
  • Verb drills
  • Study guides
  • Comprehensive oral section with videos
  • Expressions & key constructions
  • Letters and much more…

 

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