French Teaching Resources. Greetings Worksheet, Battleships Game & Song!

Worksheet Expressions:

1. Bonjour
2. Salut
3. Au revoir
4. Ça va?
5. Ça va très bien, merci
6. Ça va bien, merci
7. Ça va
8. Comme ci comme ça
9. Bof
10. Ça ne va pas
11. Et toi?
12. Tu t'appelles comment?
13. Je m'appelle…

This worksheet has 3 sections, the first is a word match for English and French greetings.

The next section is a complete the sentence challenge where certain letters have been removed. Make this more difficult by telling the students to cover up the French words listed above.

The next (extra) section involves unjumbling a group of words to find the correct greetings. Again, make this more difficult by telling the students to cover up the French words listed above.

Then there is an extension task to create their own comic strip.

Battleships Expressions:

Bonjour! Ça va?
Salut! Ça va?
Bonsoir. Ça va?
Je m’appelle ***. Ça va?

Ça va très bien, merci.
Ça va bien, merci.
Ça va.
Comme ci comme ça.
Bof.
Ça ne va pas/ ça va mal.

Battleships Game
Instructions

I use this battleships game (which can also be used as a lotto grid) to help students to practise their pronunciation and to reinforce new vocabulary and grammatical structures.

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


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.

During the game I circulate the classroom checking pronunciation. This is followed by whole class drilling of pronunciation mistakes.

Enjoy!

Song: 1 slide PowerPoint:

Salut!
Salut ! salut!
Salut ! Comment vas-tu ?
Ça va bien ;
donc, à demain.
Salut ! Salut !

(tune =  Hi-Ho: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs).