French Teaching Resources. The Subjunctive & Conjunctions: Odd One Out warmer and Matching Cards.

This one slide odd-one-out warmer activity checks student's knowledge of the conjunctions which do and do not take the subjunctive. I give the students mini-whiteboards to record their answers on. They must write down the conjunction which does not take the subjunctive e.g. from a choice of:

bien que quoique pour que parce que


I use these English - French matching cards to revise key conjunctions which take the Subjunctive.

Expressions on cards:

Pour que/ afin que/ de façon que/ de manière que/ de sorte que
À moins que…ne
À condition que/ Pourvu que
Avant que…ne
En attendant que/ jusqu’à ce que
Bien que/ quoique
Non que
Ce n’est pas que
De crainte que…ne…
De peur que…ne…
Sans que

You may choose to have different levels of challenge. For example,

Level 1 = match the cards and discuss the pronunciation.

Level 2 = match the cards , discuss the pronunciation 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 there are 2 fun games to play, either pelmenism or a game I learnt in Japan called Karuta. In Karuta the students put the English language cards to one side and spread out the French cards 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!