French Teaching Resources. PowerPoint & Battleships: What you are allowed to do: Je peux

Expressions:

Je peux, je ne peux pas...

regarder la télé quand je veux.
téléphoner aux copains.
sortir le soir avec des copains.
m’habiller comme je veux.
dépenser mon argent de poche comme je veux.
surfer sur Internet.

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

The next section of slides have multiple choice questions.

Then there are "what's missing?" slides.

The final slide has pictures of all the phrases. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, 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!

You may wish to reinforce and extend this material by playing my je peux/ je ne peux pas battleships game/ lotto grid.

Expressions:

Je peux

Je ne peux pas

Je vais

Je voudrais

Quand j’aurai 16ans je pourrai


regarder la télé quand je veux.

téléphoner aux copains.

sortir le soir avec des copains.

m’habiller comme je veux.

dépenser mon argent de poche comme je veux.

surfer sur Internet.

Battleships Game

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. This is followed by whole class drilling of pronunciation mistakes.

Enjoy!