FRENCH SPEAKING PRACTICE CARDS #1

ADVANCED BEGINNER FRENCH SPEAKING ACTIVITIES FRENCH IMMERSION SPEAKING ACTIVITIES FRENCH SPEAKING PRACTICE IDEAL FOR FRENCH TRANSLATION PRACTICE TOO

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These French paired speaking prompt cards an ideal way to promote speaking in French class. Working in small groups or pairs helps students feel confident about talking in French without feeling ‘on the spot’, or worried about not getting their pronunciation and accent right in front of the whole class. The prompt cards offer structured talk opportunities, and focus on vocabulary, structures and general knowledge that students are generally engaging with from advanced beginner French level.

Language addresses a broad range of grammar points, such as question formats, gender agreement and articles. Some questions and answers include modal verbs and subordinating conjunctions, which makes conversational French more realistic and communicative. Students will not have engaged with all the language used at this stage, and this makes the activity equally about engaging implicitly with new language, as well as practicing and reinforcing the current language focus.

Language varies from basic beginner French such as Quel âge as-tu ? J’ai quinze ans to more involved and complex exchanges such as La mode éthique, c’est trop cher selon toi ?

The set also provides students with an opportunity to develop their translation skills in French from the beginning of their learning, which is very important: they see that ‘word for word’ is rarely, if ever, accurate, and that a correct translation means correctly conveying the meaning of a clause or sentence, rather than every word that appears in it.

The set comprises the following non-editable files in a zipped format:
= 100 cards, 50 questions and 50 suggested responses in French (10 cards per page, 10 pages) Laminate these if possible, as they’re more learner-friendly, and they will remain in excellent condition for years, so they can used many times
= 6-page booklet / answer key containing all the dialogue questions and answers in both French and English
= 6-page translation activity workbook, translating from French into English
notes and recording sheets - if students don’t have class workbooks, they can use the sheets to make notes as they create new questions and responses, and write their completed versions out in full. These sheets are also useful for more formal assessment purposes if required.

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