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I am a secondary and adult education French and ESL teacher and I love creating resources that help my students have fun with languages! You'll see many speaking games, grammar games, and task cards in my shop.
I am a secondary and adult education French and ESL teacher and I love creating resources that help my students have fun with languages! You'll see many speaking games, grammar games, and task cards in my shop.
Everyone loves a good game of BATTLESHIP, and the French classroom is a better place than any! You can use this classic game format to practice forming the PASSÉ COMPOSÉ, choosing between ÊTRE and AVOIR as helping verb. This resource includes 45 verbs. There are regular verbs, irregular verbs and reflexive verbs to practice with. 5 different versions of the game are included.
This resource is also sold at a discounted price in my BATAILLE NAVALE BUNDLE: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/french-bataille-navale-games-growing-bundle-11608221
Just print out one page of the version you want to use per student. Students place boats (which are squares on the game sheets that they will have darkened with a pencil) on the game board. Students play against each other to try to find and eventually sink their opponent’s boats.
Subject pronouns are written in the vertical column and infinitives are written in the boxes at the top. To choose a square, the player must say the subject and correct verb form in the passé composé using either être or avoir as helping verb. If you wanted to practice writing in the passé composé you could have your students do that.
All of the vocabulary they’ll need is written right on the game sheet and it is all in French. Each game sheet includes two battleship grids and a line separating the two. Students can fold the paper on the line if they want to. One of the grids is for a player to place his boats and the other is to mark and keep track of his opponent.
This resource includes 5 versions of the game with both black and white and color copies.
It is the end of the year and your French AP students have already taken their test, or your French 4 seniors have practically checked out. What can you do with them that will keep them speaking French during those last days of the school year? Students love talking to each other, and especially at the end of senior year there is a lot to reflect upon.
This is a set of 15 reflection questions that you can print, laminate, punch holes in and cut out before hooking the complete set together on a ring. You'll be able to use these reflection questions for years to come.
In the upper left corner of each card there is a circle which indicates where you should punch the hole so that your set of cards comes out nice and neat.
I have my students work with partners or in small groups to answer the questions orally. At the end of the year and after testing I don't require them to write any answers down on paper, but of course it is up to you. If you wanted to do something kind of fun with the cards you could alternatively play a game of SCOOT and have students write out their answers.
The grammar used in these reflection questions is high level and will keep them on their toes!
Want your French students to have some fun learning themed vocabulary from the chapters you study? Are you looking for a fun way for them to review vocabulary they've already learned? This NO PREP activity is a fun way to encourage your beginner to intermediate students to keep up with the vocabulary they learn. You can pull out these cards and use them as ice-breakers, bell-ringers, French club activities, games and much more.
Here are the vocabulary themes of the games that are included :
1. La nourriture
2. Chez le médecin
3. Les vêtements
4. À la maison
5. En ville
All sets include both beginner and intermediate version of the game. The beginner version has the words written out and the intermediate version only shows pictures. All sets include color and black and white versions.
Depending on class size you could either give each student more than one card or have them play with a partner. I recommend printing out and laminating these cards if possible so that you can use them over and over again.
Here's how this game works. Once each student has a card (or cards), the one who has the card that says JE COMMENCE starts the game. He says, for example, Je commence. J'ai le pantalon. Qui a les chaussures? The person who has the card with shoes on it says, J'ai les chaussures. Qui a le costume? And so the game goes on until the last card is called and that student's card will say, J'ai fini!
Another idea is to prepare two sets of cards, divide your class into two groups and let each group have a go to see which team can get through the entire deck of cards the fastest. If the vocabulary is completely new you could start out with the beginner deck and as the words become more familiar you could move on to the intermediate level. It's really a lot of fun, and though you can play with younger students the older ones love this game just as much.
There’s a lot of useful vocabulary for students to learn when we teach about LES VÊTEMENTS. I have three activities that I love to use to get students talking and to reinforce all of the vocabulary they’ll need to talk about clothes and accessories.
These are the four vocabulary speaking activities that are included in this bundle. Just click on each link to read full details about each resource.
This is a really fun game to practice with your students who are learning vocabulary about LES VÊTEMENTS, and it involves NO PREP. I've included both a beginner and intermediate version of the game. The beginner version has the words written out and the intermediate version only shows pictures. Have a look at the thumbnails to see what they look like.
Each version includes 38 cards. Depending on class size you could either give each student more than one card or have them play with a partner. I recommend printing out and laminating these cards if possible so that you can use them over and over again.
Here's how this game works. Once each student has a card (or cards), the one who has the card that says JE COMMENCE starts the game. He says, for example, Je commence. J'ai le pantalon. Qui a les chaussures? The person who has the card with shoes on it says, J'ai les chaussures. Qui a le costume? And so the game goes on until the last card is called and that student's card will say, J'ai fini!
Another idea is to prepare two sets of cards, divide your class into two groups and let each group have a go to see which team can get through the entire deck of cards the fastest. If the vocabulary is completely new you could start out with the beginner deck and as the words become more familiar you could move on to the intermediate level. It's really a lot of fun, and though you can play with younger students the older ones love this game just as much.
Playing French TABOO is a great way to get students to speak French and learn a lot of new vocabulary. This game is simple to modify and use with beginners and advanced students alike. The them of this TABOO game is LES VÊTEMENTS. 37 French-English cards are included.
All of the words on the cards are in French and English. This is very useful as many of the words will be new to students.
This French Taboo game includes the following:
How to play (beginner and advanced levels)
37 Taboo game cards to print, cut out and laminate if possible (black and white and color versions)
*In the upper left corner there's a spot for you to punch holes in the cards so that you can then attach them with a ring for no prep use every time!
Object of the game:
One player tries to get his teammate to guess the word at the top of a card. The player must give clues, but he can't use any of the Taboo words in his description. The taboo words are written beneath the word at the top of the card. Teams score points for each word successfully guessed. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Beginner students should be allowed to use the TABOO words printed on the cards. This will encourage them to use new vocabulary and will help them in forming sentences to use as clues.
VERB RACE is a fun and very exciting way to practice IMPERATIVE TENSE conjugations. Your students are going to love this set of 75 French verbs to use in the fast moving VERB RACE GAME. This set includes 75 common -ER, -IR and -RE verbs as well as the verbs AVOIR, ÊTRE, VOULOIR and SAVOIR.
Classic verb race involves dividing the class into teams and one person from each team goes up to the board to conjugate faster than everyone else. I've included full instructions, tips and rules with this resource. VERB RACE has always been a huge favorite in my classroom.
In classic VERB RACE it is usually the teacher who moderates the game, but in the instructions I'll explain in great detail how you can play a student led game so that even your weakest students can participate and learn a ton.
I'm including a powerpoint version of the game WITHOUT ANSWERS and student response sheets should you want to project the game and play as a class or in small groups without moving out of desks and up to the board.
Also with this resource you'll receive 75 task cards without responses (answer key included). You can use these cards in STATIONS, in a game of SCOOT or in classic BOARD GAMES.
I recommend printing out the cards, laminating them if possible, cutting them out, punching holes in the space provided and hooking them together with a ring for years of NO PREP usage and verb conjugation review.
Here's exactly what you get:
75 calling cards with answers - Black and white and color versions provided
75 numbered task cards without answers - Black and white and color versions provided
Powerpoint version of 75 cards without answers
How to play and other ways to use the cards
Student response sheet
Answer key
VERB RACE is a fun and very exciting way to practice conjugations. Your students are going to love this set of 75 regular passé composé French verbs to use in the fast moving VERB RACE GAME. This set includes 75 common -ER, -IR and -RE verbs that all use avoir as helping verb.
Classic verb race involves dividing the class into teams and one person from each team goes up to the board to conjugate faster than everyone else. I've included full instructions, tips and rules with this resource. VERB RACE has always been a huge favorite in my classroom.
In classic VERB RACE it is usually the teacher who moderates the game, but in the instructions I'll explain in great detail how you can play a student led game so that even your weakest students can participate and learn a ton.
You can easily make a stack of -ER, -IR and -RE verbs using them as separate games until all three sets have been learned at which point you can put them back into one big stack.
I'm including a powerpoint version of the game WITHOUT ANSWERS and student response sheets should you want to project the game and play as a class or in small groups without moving out of desks and up to the board.
Also with this resource you'll receive 75 task cards without responses (answer key included). You can use these cards in STATIONS, in a game of SCOOT or in classic BOARD GAMES.
I recommend printing out the cards, laminating them if possible, cutting them out, punching holes in the space provided and hooking them together with a ring for years of NO PREP usage and verb conjugation review.
Here's exactly what you get:
75 calling cards with answers - Black and white and color versions provided
75 numbered task cards without answers - Black and white and color versions provided
Powerpoint version of 75 cards without answers
How to play and other ways to use the cards
Student response sheet
Answer key
VERB RACE is a fun and very exciting way to practice conjugations. Your students are going to love this set of 75 regular present tense French verbs to use in the fast moving VERB RACE GAME. This set includes 75 common -ER, -IR and -RE verbs.
Classic verb race involves dividing the class into teams and one person from each team goes up to the board to conjugate faster than everyone else. I've included full instructions, tips and rules with this resource. VERB RACE has always been a huge favorite in my classroom.
In classic VERB RACE it is usually the teacher who moderates the game, but in the instructions I'll explain in great detail how you can play a student led game so that even your weakest students can participate and learn a ton.
I'm including a powerpoint version of the game WITHOUT ANSWERS and student response sheets should you want to project the game and play as a class or in small groups without moving out of desks and up to the board.
Also with this resource you'll receive 75 task cards without responses (answer key included). You can use these cards in STATIONS, in a game of SCOOT or in classic BOARD GAMES.
I recommend printing out the cards, laminating them if possible, cutting them out, punching holes in the space provided and hooking them together with a ring for years of NO PREP usage and verb conjugation review.
Here's exactly what you get:
75 calling cards with answers - Black and white and color versions provided
75 numbered task cards without answers - Black and white and color versions provided
Powerpoint version of 75 cards without answers
How to play and other ways to use the cards
Student response sheet
Answer key
This is a complete resource bundle on the French FUTUR ANTÉRIEUR. This bundle includes an 18 minute video lesson in which I explain how to form the futur antérieur as well as how and when to use this tense. At the end of the video I talk students through a 10 question quiz in which they must decide whether to use the futur antérieur or the futur simple. Included in the resource bundle you will find two worksheets / quizzes. One of them focuses on forming the futur antérieur while the other one asks students to choose between the futur antérieur and the futur simple according to context. There is also a set of task cards for you to use with your students either in small groups as a speaking activity or for individual students to use as a written assignment.
Futur Antérieur Worksheets - Quizzes
Futur Antérieur Task Cards + Powerpoint
A version of the video lesson included in this bundle is on YouTube. However, the one included for you to use with your students is not the same. In your version of the video lesson there is no reference made to my website or to supporting my work in any way. This video lesson is entirely appropriate for your students with no marketing for Love Learning Languages included other than on the title page where the name of my store is written.
This is a comprehensive lesson on the French FUTUR ANTÉRIEUR tense. This is an 18 minute video lesson in which I explain and illustrate how to form the futur antérieur as well as how and when to use this tense. The illustrations are very clear and all examples are in written form. At the end of the video I talk students through a 10 question quiz in which they must decide whether to use the futur antérieur or the futur simple. All of the questions and answers are clearly written for students to see.
A version of the video lesson included in this bundle is on YouTube. However, this one is for you to use with your students and it is not the same. In your version of the video lesson there is no reference made to my website or to supporting my work in any way. This video lesson is entirely appropriate for your students with no marketing for Love Learning Languages included other than on the title page where the name of my store is written.
This is a set of 30 French FUTUR ANTÉRIEUR tense task cards + powerpoint that you can use in a number of ways with your students.
Each card has a sentence written in the futur simple and your students must transform the sentence to the futur antérieur. This is a nice cooperative speaking activity or if you choose you can use the task cards as a written assignment. A student response sheet is included if you decide to use the cards this way. I'm including a powerpoint version of the cards should you want to project them and have the whole class work together.
There's a nice mixture of common regular and irregular verbs to work with. There are verbs using both avoir and être as helping verb as well as a few reflexives (even two that don't require making agreement on the past participle as a challenge).
Students can work with a partner as a cooperative activity and to practice speaking or they can work individually to practice writing. Task cards are a nice alternative to worksheets which can sometimes seem tedious or boring.
Just print, cut out and laminate these cards and you're ready to go, no prep for years to come! If you look in the upper left corner you'll see a space where you can neatly punch a hole in each card and then connect them with a keyring. This really makes using these task cards easy enough to decide on using at the drop of a hat, and they make for fantastic review.
Included with this product:
30 futur antérieur task cards, black and white version
30 futur antérieur task cards, color version
Answer key
Student response sheet
Powerpoint version
Two things are very important when teaching the French futur antérieur tense. First, students need to know how this tense is formed and then they need to understand how and when to use it. Here is a set of two worksheets that can also be used as homework or quizzes.
One worksheet focuses on formation of the futur antérieur while the other one has students choose between using the futur simple and the futur antérieur. Subjects or subject pronouns and infinitives are provided and students must fill in the blanks according to context. Each worksheet contains 15 sentences and answer keys are provided.
This is an easy to play 30 minute dice game to practice 18 different regular French -RE verbs in the present and passé composé tenses.
My high school students love this game, and it can get very competitive if you decide to play it as a race (details are explained with the activity).
Students divide up into teams and play six versions of this dice game. The dice determine which subject and -RE verb to conjugate.
Included with this activity:
How to play
Six different versions of the game with answers
Student response and scoring sheet
This dice game is an especially fun way to practice while learning about the present tense and passé composé. All of the verbs in this activity use AVOIR as helping verb. More advanced students also benefit from the review.
There’s a lot of useful vocabulary for students to learn when we teach about CHEZ LE MÉDECIN. I have three activities that I love to use to get students talking and to reinforce all of the vocabulary they’ll need to talk about going to the doctor’s office or hospital.
These are the five vocabulary speaking activities that are included in this bundle. Just click on each link to read full details about each resource.
This is a really fun game to practice with your students who are learning vocabulary about CHEZ LE MÉDECIN, and it involves NO PREP once you've printed and cut out the cards. I've included both a beginner and intermediate version of the game as well as black and white and color versions. The beginner version has the words written out and the intermediate version only shows pictures. Have a look at the thumbnails to see what they look like.
Each version includes 41 cards. Depending on class size you could either give each student more than one card or have them play with a partner. I recommend printing out and laminating these cards if possible so that you can use them over and over again.
You may also be interested in these related resources:
Chez le Médecin - French Taboo Speaking Game: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/chez-le-m-decin-french-taboo-speaking-game-11585849
French Speaking Questions - Chez le Médecin - Doctor and Hospital Vocabulary: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/french-speaking-questions-chez-le-m-decin-doctor-and-hospital-vocabulary-11585151
Here's how this game works. Once each student has a card (or cards), the one who has the card that says "Je commence" starts the game. He says, for example, Je commence! J'ai une fraise. Qui a une orange? The person who has the card with an orange on it says, J'ai une orange. Qui a du bacon? And so the game goes on until the last card is called and that student's card will say, J'ai fini!
Another idea is to prepare two sets of cards, divide your class into two groups and let each group have a go to see which team can get through the entire deck of cards the fastest. If the vocabulary is completely new you could start out with the beginner deck and as the words become more familiar you could move on to the intermediate level. It's really a lot of fun, and though you can play with younger students the older ones love this game just as much.
Playing French TABOO is a great way to get students to speak French and learn a lot of new vocabulary. This game is simple to modify and use with beginners and advanced students alike. The them of this TABOO game is CHEZ LE MÉDECIN. 41 French-English cards are included.
You may enjoy my set of 30 speaking questions with the same theme: CHEZ LE MÉDECIN. Just follow this link: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/french-speaking-questions-chez-le-m-decin-doctor-and-hospital-vocabulary-11585151
All of the words on the cards are in French and English. This is very useful as many of the words will be new to students.
20 of my favorite French TABOO games are available in a BUNDLE at 50% off: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/french-taboo-speaking-games-bundle-11519295
This French Taboo game includes the following:
How to play (beginner and advanced levels)
41 Taboo game cards to print, cut out and laminate if possible
*In the upper left corner there's a spot for you to punch holes in the cards so that you can then hook them together with a ring for no prep use every time!
Object of the game:
One player tries to get his teammate to guess the word at the top of a card. The player must give clues, but he can't use any of the Taboo words in his description. The taboo words are written beneath the word at the top of the card. Teams score points for each word successfully guessed. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Beginner students should be allowed to use the TABOO words printed on the cards. This will encourage them to use new vocabulary and will help them in forming sentences to use as clues.
Want your French students to use their CHEZ LE MÉDECIN - DOCTEUR vocabulary? This NO PREP activity is a fun way to encourage your intermediate to advanced students to speak more.
Check out my bundle of themed vocabulary question sets to get your students speaking French: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/french-themed-vocabulary-speaking-questions-growing-bundle-11573033
You can use it after learning specific vocabulary for doctors and hospitals or as a fun interactive activity on a day when you want to just focus on speaking and reviewing vocabulary in a different way.
There are 30 questions in all. All of the questions are asked in the TU form and require the answering student to respond using JE. More than half of the questions begin with an interrogative word encouraging more than OUI and NON responses. Questions are in the present, futur proche and passé composé tenses.
Topics used in these cards:
* Body parts
* Illnesses
* Symptoms
* Personal experiences
* Preferences
All cards are visually stimulating and feature a circle to punch out in the upper left corner so that you can print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and hook the cards together with a keyring. Have a look at the thumbnail to see how cute they turn out. Using these cards this way makes it easy to pull them out year after year to use as NO PREP speaking activities.
Use this set of primary French speaking prompt cards to get even your most timid students talking to each other in French. These 25 question cards are terrific as discussion prompts and journals.
This no prep activity is perfect for small groups or centers. You can also use the powerpoint version to make it a whole class activity. These end of the year question cards are perfect for FRENCH IMMERSION or CORE FRENCH. You can easily use these cards as a review with French students at any level.
Included: 25 question cards (color and black and white versions as you see in the thumbnails), Powerpoint presentation version to project to the whole class and / or modify as desired.
There are many ways you can use this set of 25 speaking cards:
➤ Print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and attach on a ring for small groups to ask and answer questions.
➤ Project the powerpoint showing questions to the whole class and have them answer the questions with a neighbor.
➤ Use as a warm-up speaking activity with a conversation buddy. As students enter the classroom have them choose 2-3 cards from a box.
➤ Students who finish their work earlier than others can choose a few of the cards and write out their answers.
➤ Use as exit tickets. Give each student a card before the end of class and as they walk out of the room they tell the teacher their answer.
➤ Stations: Put students into groups and divide the cards amongst them. Have groups rotate to a new station as they finish the cards.
➤ Scoot: Put one card on each desk in the classroom. Give each student a response sheet and set a timer to give them just enough time to answer the question. When the timer rings students move on to the next desk and the next question.
➤ Use the cards with board games. Students must answer a question in order to move.
➤ Use the cards as a getting to know you activity.
➤ Great resource for tutoring sessions.
Suitable for:
➤ Grades 1-6 immersion (create stacks according to level)
➤ 4-8 core French
➤ Traditional high school French programs
This is a really fun game to practice with your students who are learning vocabulary about LA NOURRITURE, and it involves NO PREP once you've printed and cut out the cards. I've included both a beginner and intermediate version of the game. The beginner version has the words written out and the intermediate version only shows pictures. Have a look at the thumbnails to see what they look like.
Each version includes 32 cards. Depending on class size you could either give each student more than one card or have them play with a partner. I recommend printing out and laminating these cards if possible so that you can use them over and over again.
Here's how this game works. Once each student has a card (or cards), the one who has the card that says JE COMMENCE starts the game. He says, for example, Je commence! J'ai une fraise. Qui a une orange? The person who has the card with an orange on it says, J'ai une orange. Qui a du bacon? And so the game goes on until the last card is called and that student's card will say, J'ai fini!
Another idea is to prepare two sets of cards, divide your class into two groups and let each group have a go to see which team can get through the entire deck of cards the fastest. If the vocabulary is completely new you could start out with the beginner deck and as the words become more familiar you could move on to the intermediate level. It's really a lot of fun, and though you can play with younger students the older ones love this game just as much.