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This worksheet practises the French plus-que-parfait (pluperfect): how to form it with avoir or être, past participle agreement, and how to use it for an action that happened before another past action. It is for B1 learners and also covers negatives, ne … jamais / ne … rien and question forms.
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Printable B1 French worksheet on the plus-que-parfait: form, agreement, use, negatives and questions. Includes answers and explanations.
Start with a timeline on the board showing two past actions, and highlight that the plus-que-parfait marks the earlier one. Learners often use the passé composé instead, choose avoir with verbs of movement, or forget agreement with être and reflexive verbs. They also put pas after the participle. As a follow-up, ask pairs to write a short story beginning 'Quand je suis arrivé(e), ...' using at least five verbs in the plus-que-parfait.