French Teaching Resources. PowerPoint Presentation & Battleships : Near Future Tense

Expressions presented:

Je vais manger de la soupe.
Je vais boire un thé.
Je vais faire du foot.
Je vais aller à la piscine.
Je vais faire du sport.
Je vais regarder la télé.
Je vais surfer sur Internet.
Je vais aller au café.


The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English, the formation and to drill.

The next slide is a Beat The Teacher game slide; which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If its the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins!

Then there are "what's missing?" slides. The next slide has pictures of all the phrases.

Use slide 22 to elicit how to form the near future tense.
Use slide 33 to elicit the different forms of aller.

You may wish to follow this with my French Battleships Game/ Lotto Grid: Near Future Tense.

Expressions:

Je vais
Tu vas
Il va
Elle va
On va
Nous allons
Vous allez
Ils vont
Elles vont

manger des tartines.
prendre du poulet.
boire un thé.
faire du sport.
surfer sur internet.
aller au café.

Battleships Game
Instructions

Firstly I ask the students to work independently in pairs to translate the expressions.

The students then focus on pronunciation and decide the two easiest and two most difficult words to pronounce.

I then check the translations and drill pronunciation with the whole class before they play the game.

The students secretly choose 5 squares on the top grid and then try to guess which 5 squares their partner has chosen, filling in the bottom grid with “hit” and “miss.” To choose a square say a phrase from the horizontal line and complete the sentence with a phrase from the vertical line. Where the 2 phrases meet up is the square you have chosen.

I use the English language sheet to further challenge the students: they should place this on top of the French version and then try to play the game saying the French phrases as far as possible from memory. I allow the really weak students to have the French version next to the English version so they have lots of support, stronger students are allowed a few “sneaky peaks” at the French version and the really strong students aim to refer back to the French version as little as possible. This really helps the students to memorise the vocabulary/structures!

During the game I circulate the classroom checking pronunciation.
Enjoy!