French Teaching Resources. PowerPoint & Dominoes: Transport/ transportation

As there are many cognates I have included different countries, cities and tenses to increase the level of challenge for stronger students.

This PowerPoint presents the following expressions.

Je vais à Bruxelles à vélo.
Je vais au Portugal en voiture.
Nous allons au Danemark en taxi.
Je suis allé(e) à Londres à pied.
Je ne suis jamais allé(e) en Allemagne à moto.
Je suis allé(e) à Athènes en avion.
Je vais aller aux Etats Unis en aéroglisseur.
Nous sommes allé(e)s aux Pays-Bas en bateau.
J’aimerais bien aller en Suisse en car.
Nous sommes allés à Lisbonne à mobylette.
Je vais à Paris en Eurostar.

The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill.
All: translate the transport.
Most: Also translate the country/city.
Some: Also translaate and identify the verb/tense.

The next 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!

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

English - French Dominoes Expressions:

Je ne vais pas voyager à mobylette.
Je prends le bus car c’est pratique.
J’aime prendre la voiture car c’est vraiment bien.
J’adore prendre le métro car c’est rapide.
J’ai voyagé en bateau car ce n’est pas cher.
J’aimerais prendre l’avion car c’est rapide.
Je vais voyager à moto.
Je voudrais prendre le train.
Nous sommes allés à Bruxelles en car.
Nous allons à pied car c’est bon pour la santé.
Je n’ai pas voyagé en taxi.
Je ne voyage pas en Eurostar.

These matching cards can be used either to elicit the modes of transportation or to revise previous learning.

You may choose to have different levels of challenge. For example,
Level 1 = line up the dominoes and discuss the pronunciation.
Level 2 = As level 1 and then have quick fire questions from French to English, whereby 1 student closes their eyes and their partner reads out the French cards which the student must translate into English from memory.
Level 3 = As Level 2 but the quick fire questions are from English to French.

Following checking the students can play a game I learnt in Japan called Karuta. In Karuta the students spread out the dominoes in front of them. I then say the English and the students compete to touch the correct French card first. Whoever touches it first wins the card. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. The students love this game!