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Grade 8 Core French 🇫🇷

Ontario Curriculum · TDSB · Curated Video Lessons

Ontario's Grade 8 Core French curriculum develops students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in French. Key grammar areas include verb conjugation in different tenses (especially the passé composé), the distinction between être and avoir as auxiliaries, and building vocabulary for communication. This guide covers the three highest-priority grammar topics for Grade 8 Core French success.

Grammar – Past Tense

📝 Passé Composé: Full French Lesson

The passé composé is the primary past tense Grade 8 students need to master. It is formed with a helping verb (avoir or être) plus a past participle, and is used to describe completed actions in the past. This comprehensive lesson by French With Alexa covers how to form the passé composé, which verbs use avoir vs. être, and irregular past participles — everything needed for Grade 8 Core French writing and oral tasks.

  • Passé Composé
  • Past Participles
  • Avoir vs Être
  • Regular Verbs

Source: French With Alexa

Grammar – Être vs Avoir

🔀 Être & Avoir in the Passé Composé

One of the most common sources of errors for Grade 8 French students is choosing the correct auxiliary verb in the passé composé. Most verbs use avoir, but a specific group of verbs — mostly verbs of movement and state change — use être, and require agreement of the past participle with the subject. This lesson clearly explains the être vs. avoir rule with memorable examples so students can apply it confidently in tests and writing tasks.

  • Être Verbs
  • Avoir Verbs
  • Agreement Rules
  • Common Errors

Source: French Conjugation Series

Grammar – Verb Conjugation

⚙️ French Verb Conjugation: 10 Key Verbs

Building fluency in French requires mastering the conjugation of high-frequency verbs across multiple tenses. This lesson covers 10 essential French verbs — including avoir, être, aller, faire, vouloir, pouvoir, and more — conjugated in three key tenses. For Grade 8 students, this is an excellent review of present tense, passé composé, and futur proche conjugation patterns in one focused lesson.

  • High-Frequency Verbs
  • Present Tense
  • Futur Proche
  • Oral Fluency

Source: French Language Learning

Built for TDSB students · Ontario Curriculum · Grade 8 Core French

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