Using cootie catchers (fortune tellers) to get students speaking to each other and to help them get to know their classmates better is a great idea at any time of the year. Your students already love them, and cootie catchers are the perfect ice breaker activity for back to school. This resource is in English and is suitable for any teacher who wants his or her students to interact and learn fun facts about each other. This file includes ten different ice breaker cootie catchers. The file also contains 2 blank templates for making your own cootie catchers (a perfect activity for test review questions). Each version includes 8 fun questions for a total of 80 getting to know you questions. Some of the questions are really silly while others demand more reflection. Here's everything you get: 10 different cootie catchers, each has 8 questions for a total of 80 Color and black and white copies are included 2 blank templates to make your own review games (one with classic cars and one with flowers) Instructions on how to fold cootie catchers

Use this set of INTERMEDIATE ESL conversation starters and speaking prompt cards to get even your most timid students talking to each other in English. These 83 question cards are terrific for discussion and journal writing prompts and they span 13 different themes: ➤ languages ➤ work ➤ animals ➤ health ➤ your region ➤ transport ➤ books ➤ what would you prefer… ➤ travels ➤ household chores ➤ food ➤ shopping ➤ sports This no prep activity is perfect for small groups or centers. Use these cards as a review and vocabulary builder with ESL students at the lower intermediate to mid-intermediate level. An easy to project PDF in color with only one card per page is included in case you want to work on the questions as a class without printing and cutting out the cards. Included: 83 question cards (color and black and white versions as you see in the thumbnails) Ways to use these cards Easy to project PDF file (one card per page) There are many ways you can use this set of 83 speaking cards: ➤ Print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and attach on a ring for small groups to ask and answer questions. ➤ Use as a warm-up speaking activity or ice breaker with a conversation partner. 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 including reasons for their preferences. ➤ 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 or ice breaker at the beginning of the year or at a club event. ➤ Great resource for tutoring sessions.

Le futur simple - French simple future worksheet Worksheet to practice using the French futur simple tense with regular and irregular verb stems. This exercise includes 15 fill in the blank sentences. Answer key provided. LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Le Petit Bac - French Scattergories Game This is a really fun activity to play with your students as they practice and build their vocabulary in French. Le Petit Bac sera le jeu parfait! You can play this game with students of literally any age or level, and it's perfect for both core and immersion curriculums. Players attempt to create answers for each of the four categories on their game. This should be a fast moving game and there are only spaces for six words per category. The MAXIMUM they can write is six words so they have to choose them wisely. Students can be creative and flexible with their answers, but other players can challenge them! 24 games are included with 96 different categories! You can either print out the game sheets or project them to save paper and ink. For younger students you can allow more time for them to think and write, while older students will love the challenge of the timer.

Restaurants - ESL Taboo Speaking Game Playing TABOO is a great way to get ESL students to speak English and learn a lot of new vocabulary. This game is simple to modify and use with beginners and advanced students alike. In this RESTAURANTS theme version of the game there are 30 playing cards. I've included 2 fun ways to play this fun vocabulary game and both are explained in the instructions. This ESL Taboo game includes the following: How to play classic Taboo (beginner and advanced levels) 30 Taboo game cards to print, laminate, cut out and hook together with a ring How to play 15 MINUTES MAX - an alternative version of the game 15 MINUTES MAX game board File for projecting one card at a time for an all class activity *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. Be sure to laminate if at all possible! 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. LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

French passé composé with être - French grammar worksheet Worksheet to practice using the passé composé with être. Sentences are written in the present tense and students rewrite them in the passé composé. All 17 DRMRSPVANDERTRAMP verbs are included.This worksheet includes 17 sentences. LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students. French passé composé with être - French grammar worksheet

Vouloir - Pouvoir - Devoir - French grammar quiz - Present Tense Quiz or worksheet on the verbs vouloir, pouvoir and devoir in the present tense. Fill in the blanks with the correct present tense form of the verb in parentheses. There are twenty sentences total on this one page quiz. LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Être ou Avoir - Passé Composé Board Game This passé composé board game is perfect whether you're teaching regular French verbs with avoir, verbs that use être as helping verb (including reflexive verbs), or for when you're ready to mix up regular and irregular verbs which use either être or avoir. Game includes: game board (black and white and color copies included) 50 être passé composé game cards (reflexive verbs included) 50 avoir passé composé game cards (all regular verbs) 50 être or avoir passé composé game cards (regular and irregular + reflexives) How to play Not included: 1 die per group game tokens, 1 per player All you have to do is print the game cards that you want to use on heavy paper or card stock and cut them out. If you laminate them you'll have a no prep activity ready to go for years to come! Put the game cards in a stack and divide your students into small teams. Give each team gets a stack of questions. This grammar board game has a grid of 35 boxes. The first player to reach box 35 wins. There are lots of fun tricks along the way, so getting to the end isn’t always so easy! In groups of two to four, players take turns rolling a die to move their piece forward. Spaces are numbered and players follow the arrows to keep track of which way they’re moving. There are some spaces with special instructions: Départ - Start Avance de 5 cases - Move forward 5 spaces Recule de 5 cases - Move backward 5 spaces Rejoue - Play again Tu perds ton tour - Lose a turn Fin - End Use the passé composé question cards so that students must answer after rolling in order to move forward. If students answer the question correctly, they can move forward. If not, it’s the next player’s turn. There is a total of 150 playing cards. 50 of them can be used when teaching basic passé composé of regular verbs with avoir. There are also 50 that only use être, and another set of 50 to practice être or avoir with both regular and irregular verbs. All of the short sentences are written in the present tense, and some use negation. Students just need to restate the sentence in the passé composé. GCSE FRENCH: Être ou Avoir - Passé Composé Board Game

French Noël Match Up Activities - French Christmas Worksheets These no prep NOËL - CHRISTMAS match up activities are a fun way to teach your students seasonal vocabulary and is a perfect resource to use in immersion, core or homeschool curriculum Included: 2 match up worksheets Answer keys

French imperfect tense crossword puzzles - mots croisés l'imparfait Want your French students to have some fun when learning regular and irregular French verbs in the imperfect tense? These five NO PREP crossword puzzles are a fun way to change things up a little. The clues given are verbs in the infinitive form along with a subject pronoun. Students fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in the imperfect tense. Included: 5 versions of French imperfect tense crossword puzzles LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. 

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Christmas Crossword Puzzle These no prep Christmas crossword puzzles are fun and super easy to print out as in class resources or as homework assignments. Included: 2 crosswords puzzles Answer key LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

French Comparative with Adjectives Dice Games - Jeux de Dés 12 fun and easy to play, no prep dice games to practice forming comparative sentences with descriptive adjectives. Two versions of each game are provided, one with helpful clues for beginners and another without clues to use when your students need to master masculine, feminine, singular and plural French adjectives. Each game is unique for a total of 72 different adjectives. See the preview for an example. Included with this activity: How to play 12 versions of the game with helpful clues 12 versions of the game without clues Student response sheet Students practice forming sentences to compare people using descriptive adjectives. Use these games to practice forming comparatives in any tense when you use the no clues version. Students work with a partner or in small groups and roll the dice to decide how to form questions. They roll a die 4 times to determine the following: subject, comparative, adjective, other person. Students write their words and sentences on the response sheet. LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

This set of 50 speaking prompts cards and 50 writing prompts is tailored for advanced learners of French. Challenge your French 3 and 4 as well as AP students!! Students love talking to each other, and especially at the end of senior year there is a lot to reflect upon. Writing is an essential part of mastering a language. The topics are inviting and fun. There will be lots of additional themes added. The questions are smart and thought provoking. We also include a French grading rubric for easy grading! You can print the writing prompts and the students can write directly on them. The speaking cards can be used in class with the projecting file, printed and laminated for in class speaking activities or used by the students on their tablets. Be sure to visit my shop and browse through 500+ resources like grammar games, speaking activities, listening comprehension, worksheets, and much more. Just click here!

My French students always get confused when expressing durations of time. This resource includes a one page handout with simplified rules and examples in French and English for when to use pour, pendant, depuis, and il y a. There is space beneath each rule and example for students to write their own examples in French and English. The exercise that follows includes 25 sentences for students to fill in the blanks with pour, pendant, depuis or il y a. A variety of tenses are used in this exercise. Sentences are written in the present tense, passé composé with both être and avoir as helping verbs, futur proche, passé récent, futur simple, and imperfect. Answer key is included. Be sure to visit my shop and browse through 500+ resources like grammar games, speaking activities, listening comprehension, worksheets, and much more. Just click here! LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students. Merci beaucoup!

Use these insightful and thought provoking question cards to trigger great discussions among your students about the wonderful book by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, le Petit Prince. Use the cards to teach them the vocabulary if you want. This activity is a fun way to encourage your students to speak more and engage in conversation. It is a perfect resource to use in immersion, core or homeschool curriculums. You will have to read and study the book prior to using these questions. You can use these cards after teaching specific vocabulary and grammar for le Petit Prince or as a fun interactive activity on a day when you want to just focus on speaking and reviewing vocabulary in a different way. Read on to find out the many ways I like to use these cards including the popular SCOOT game. Instructions and recording sheet are included. 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 ring. Using these cards this way makes it easy to pull them out year after year to use as NO PREP speaking activities. Included: ➱ 30 speaking prompt cards - color (4 per page to print and cut out) ➱ 30 speaking prompt cards - grayscale ➱ PDF version to project and avoid printing (1 card per page to project) ➱ 9 different ways to use these cards ➱ Scoot game instructions ➱ Scoot recording sheet There are many ways you can use these cards: ✫ Print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and attach on a ring for small groups to ask and answer questions. ✫ Project the pdf file in class to work in group or with your whole class and avoid printing. ✫ Use as a warm-up speaking activity with a conversation partner. 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 correct answers to false statements. ✫ 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 true or false and to correct the false statements. When the timer rings students move on to the next desk and the next question. All cards are numbered so it is simple to stay organized. Full instructions are included. ✫ Use the cards with board games. Students must answer a question in order to move. ✫ Use the cards as an icebreaker activity at the beginning of the school year or right after school holidays. ✫ Great resource for tutoring sessions and vocabulary building.

These cut and paste worksheets will help your beginner French students learn the days of the week and the months. Great for core French and immersion schools! How to use these worksheets: One worksheet is included for the days of the week and the 12 months are on two sheets. Have your students cut off the bottom part of the worksheet where indicated with scissors. Then have them cut out the days and months. Now they’re ready to paste the days and months in the right spot on the paper. They should put the days and months in chronological order. Next to each numbered space there are lines where students write out the days and months to help with spelling. When they’ve finished they’ll enjoy coloring the numbers and the little black and white image at the top of the page. LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students. Merci beaucoup!

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. In this classic version of the game there is no particular vocabulary theme. 50 French-English cards are included. There are 2 fun ways to play this fun vocabulary game and both are explained in the instructions. 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. Be sure to visit my shop and browse through 500+ resources like grammar games, speaking activities, listening comprehension, worksheets, and much more. Just click here! This French Taboo game includes the following: How to play classic Taboo (beginner and advanced levels) 50 Taboo game cards to print, laminate, cut out and hook together with a keyring How to play 15 MINUTES MAX - an alternative version of the game 15 MINUTES MAX game board Sheet to record new words in French and English (nouveaux mots) *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. Be sure to laminate if at all possible! 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.

Original French exercise to practice JOUER À vs JOUER DE. Pronouns Y and EN and relative pronouns AUQUEL and DONT included. This product includes: Fill in the blank exercise, 4 paragraphs Answer key PDF version of complete lesson to use as a handout. Simple forms of JOUER À or JOUER DE + sports or instruments Replacing sports and instruments with the pronouns Y or EN Referring to sports and instruments with AUQUEL or DONT Be sure to visit my shop and browse through 500+ resources like grammar games, speaking activities, listening comprehension, worksheets, and much more. Just click here!

Here are fifteen French sentences to rewrite in the correct order. Sentences must then be rewritten without the usage of pronouns encouraging student creativity. French pronouns used in this exercise: le / la / les / lui / leur / y / en See the preview for directions and an example. Answer key included (except for the part where students have to rewrite the sentences without pronouns, as answers will vary). Be sure to visit my shop and browse through 500+ resources like grammar games, speaking activities, listening comprehension, worksheets, and much more. Just click here!

This is a multiple choice worksheet with 20 questions (answers provided). Don’t be fooled, this multiple choice worksheet will have your students thinking hard! Sentences are written in the passé composé, some with être and some with avoir as helping verb. Students have to choose the correct form of the past participle to use. There’s a mix of some that have preceding direct objects / direct object pronouns, reflexive verbs, and reciprocal verbs in which the pronoun also acts as an indirect object pronoun. Be sure to visit my shop and browse through 500+ resources like grammar games, speaking activities, listening comprehension, worksheets, and much more. Just click here!