A few years ago, I retired from my position as head of Modern Languages, a bit fearful of the "R" word. But to date, it has been nothing but fun! Canadian law requires school-aged actors to study with a qualified teacher when they’re off-camera. Many of our young actors are in immersion French so I've found a happy little niche, teaching a few days a week as an on-set tutor and moving in inspiring and creative circles! Furthermore, I get to share resources here! Vive la retraite!
A few years ago, I retired from my position as head of Modern Languages, a bit fearful of the "R" word. But to date, it has been nothing but fun! Canadian law requires school-aged actors to study with a qualified teacher when they’re off-camera. Many of our young actors are in immersion French so I've found a happy little niche, teaching a few days a week as an on-set tutor and moving in inspiring and creative circles! Furthermore, I get to share resources here! Vive la retraite!
YOU DON’T SAY! is a themed variation of Taboo® that can be played in two very different ways.
If your students are confident and articulate, they can play YOU DON’T SAY! following traditional Taboo® rules. If, however, you have students who are uncomfortable giving clues, turn the rules upside down. Tell them to use some or all of the words beneath the pink and white banner in their descriptions! This topsy-turvy approach encourages and empowers everyone to participate. You won’t believe what a positive game-changer it is.
This file includes 40 “Valentine” cards about friendship, relationships and love. I’ve also appended a template for students to make their own YOU DON’T SAY! deck.
This game is a bit like “Taboo” and can be played 2 ways.
If your students are confident in French, have them play according to traditional Taboo® rules.
If your students are uncomfortable giving clues, turn the rules upside down. Have your students use the words beneath the red and green banner in their descriptions! This topsy-turvy approach encourages and empowers everyone to participate. You won’t believe what a positive game-changer it is. The green stars indicate challenging cards.
It’s usually a good idea for you as the teacher to announce that you will accept synonyms like 'un palet” or 'un disque” for 'une rondelle”.
The cards are designed to be run on business card sheets or card stock.
Embedded in each of the 4 puzzle grids in this bundle are several French words on the themes of L'Action de Grâce, L'Automne, L'Hiver and L’Halloween as well as many more general vocabulary words.
The bundle includes
• Full-colour copies and BW copies of each puzzle • a thematic vocabulary for each theme • answer keys • a “how to play” guide
Try the free TES activity,'Joyeux Noël ('C'est touchant' is like Boggle.)' to see if this activity is for you:
https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Joyeux-No-and-235-l-and-quot-C-and-39-est-touchant-and-quot-is-like-Boggle-6150658/
This activity works well as a full class, teacher directed game or as a small group activity. After the fun of the oral treasure hunt, you can also assign co-ordinates to create an instant written assignment to reinforce the correct spelling of the verb endings. You’ll find that even reluctant learners will be motivated to listen carefully and the promise of “treasure” tends to generate enthusiastic oral participation as well. My answer key is for le présent, le passé composé, le futur simple and le présent du subjonctif but the game works for virtually every verb tense.
To see if this activity is right for your students, try the free, “Où sont les trésors cachés (les verbes ER):
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/o-sont-les-tr-sors-cach-s--les-verbes-er-6438862
Chaque phrase dans ces deux marelles comprend un participe présent.
Each sentence in these two hopscotch games includes a present participle.
Les phrases cachées dans cesmarelles sont:
The sentences hidden in these hopscotch games are:
• Je fais toujours mes devoirs en écoutant de la musique sur mon
téléphone.
• C’est en rappant qu’on devient rappeur.
• Normalement, ma famille et moi, nous mangeons le dîner en regardant
les nouvelles à la télé.
• Cet homme est devenu célèbre en mangeant un sandwich. Pour savoir
comment, regarde le clip à gauche.
• C'est en lisant le roman, The Hunger Games, que je suis devenu fan de la
science-fiction.
• Ma pauvre grand-mère s’est encore cassé la jambe en faisant du ski
acrobatique
• La talentueuse Béyoncé exécute souvent des danses compliquées tout
en chantant.
• Malheureusement, le parachutiste a oublié d’ouvrir son parachute en
descendant alors il est descendu TRÈS vite. SPLATTT!
• Moi, j’aime écouter de la musique relaxante en faisant du yoga.
• Rédige le brouillon de ton texte en t’aidant de tes notes préparatoires pui
demande à un camarade de classe de corriger ta copie.
• En marchant pendant trente minutes, vous brûlez environ 125 calories.
• Selon la police, le chauffeur de la voiture s’est retrouvé dans le lac en
suivant son GPS défectueux.
• Vous pouvez changer de mot de passe en cliquant ici.
• En mangeant un beigne glacé au chocolat, vous consommez 300
calories!
• Chaque matin, Maman boit son café en lisant le journal.
Originally designed as a Modern Language tool, this virtual scavenger hunt encourages even students who are usually reluctant to participate in class to jump right in and to speak in full sentences. You’ll experience the phenomenon of an entire class listening “actively” because no one wants to waste a guess choosing a square from which the gift has already been claimed.
After the oral treasure hunt, assign a handful of co-ordinates for an instant written assignment that will reinforce verb conjugations and vocabulary acquisition.
“Where are my Valentine’s gifts?” has been designed to review virtually any tense. I have appended answer keys for four of them: the present, the simple past, the simple future and the conditional perfect.
This resource will help visual learners master the following idioms:
aller droit au but
avoir du pain sur la planche
avoir la langue bien pendue
avoir le bras long
avoir le coeur sur la main
avoir une peur bleue
c'est dans la poche
c’est simple comme bonjour
ce n’est pas la mer à boire
ce n’est pas sorcier
connaître les ficelles
couper la poire en deux
coûter les yeux de la tête
en faire tout un fromage
faire la court échelle à quelqu'un
faire la pluie et le beau temps
faire la une
faire le pont
il y a quelque chose qui ne tourne pas rond
je suis un vrai tombeau
les doigts dans le nez
mettre la main à la pâte
parler français comme une vache espagnole
plier bagage
quand les poules auront des dents
un ours mal léché
If you like this resource, please let me know and I will make more like it.
DIRE OU INTERDIRE? pour la Saint-Valentin can be played like Taboo with confident and advanced students. But if your students are reluctant to speak French, empower them by flipping the flipping rules!
OÙ SONT LES TRÉSORS CACHÉS (La Saint-Valentin) will turn conjugating “avoir” and “er” verbs in any tense and speaking in full sentences into fun. (No, really.) SCRIBBLESCRABBLES are deceptively challenging word building puzzles. I’ve also included 2 free resources to save you some searching. If you like these files, please let me know.
In this co-operative review activity, students who have studied Hamlet are asked to match the text on the edges of sixteen triangles to reconstitute the following quotes:
- This above all: to thine own self be true.
- There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
- To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream . . .
- There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt
of in your philosophy.
- Brevity is the soul of wit.
- I must be cruel only to be kind; thus bad begins, and worse remains behind
- Get thee to a nunnery.
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
- O that this too too solid flesh would melt …
- Good night, sweet prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
- When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.
- Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
- One may smile and smile and be a villain
- Happy in that we are not overhappy; on Fortune's cap we are not the very button.
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be: for loan oft loses both itself and friend.
This file includes
• 3 motdoku6 (word sudoku) games
• Où sont les trésors cachés (Les expressions AVOIR)
• 1 powerpoint presentation illustrating
15 expressions
• an 8.5" by 14" poster of those same expressions
• the free game, "Let's get to the bottom (or top) of
LES EXPRESSIONS AVOIR"
“OÙ SONT LES TRÉSORS CACHÉS? (La Saint-Valentin)” is a French verb conjugation game that will work well as a full-class, teacher-directed game and as a small-group activity. You’ll find that even reluctant learners will be motivated to listen carefully to hear which squares have already been “played” by their classmates. And the promise of “treasure” tends to generate enthusiastic oral participation as well. After the fun of the oral treasure hunt, you can assign co-ordinates to create an instant written assignment to reinforce the correct spelling of the verb endings.
I’ve provided an answer key for le présent, le passé composé, le futur simple, le conditionnel présent & le plus-que parfait. However, the game can be played in all verb tenses.
To be sure that “Où sont les trésors cachés? (La Saint-Valentin)” is right for your students, download the free resource, “Où sont les trésors cachés? (Les verbes ER):
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/o-sont-les-tr-sors-cach-s-les-verbes-er-6438862
I was really pleased when a young teacher in Italy (Italy!) suggested that I create separate OÙ SONT LES TRÉSORS CACHÉS? puzzles for the regular RE and IR verbs. Here they are, bundled along with the composite puzzle and the original free ER resource.
OSLTC? (les verbes réguliers ER)
OSLTC? (les verbes réguliers IR)
OSLTC? (les verbes réguliers RE)
OSLTC? (les verbes réguliers ER, IR & RE combined)
Your students will review pivotal ideas as they reconstitute sixteen key quotations from each of these three tragedies. Use as a co-operative activities or as independent enrichment work.
OÙ SONT LES TRÉSORS CACHÉS? works well as a full-class, teacher directed activity or as a small group game. After the fun of the oral treasure hunt, assign a handful of co-ordinates and, voilà, an instant written assignment that reinforces the correct spelling of the verb endings. You’ll find that even reluctant learners will be motivated to listen carefully and the promise of “treasure” tends to generate enthusiastic oral participation as well. My answer key is for le présent, le passé composé and le futur simple but the game can be played in virtually every verb tense.
To see if this activity is right for your students, try the free, “Où sont les trésors cachés (les verbes ER):
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/o-sont-les-tr-sors-cach-s-les-verbes-er-6438862
In this co-operative review activity, students who have studied the Scottish play are asked to match the text on the edges of 16 triangles to reconstitute the following quotes:
-But screw your courage to the sticking place . . .
-Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
-Let not light see my black and deep desires.
-False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
-There’s daggers in men’s smiles.
-The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
-Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
-Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and
cauldron bubble.
-Give sorrow words.
-Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts
and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard
no more.
-Look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent
under ’t.
-Out, damned spot!
-What’s done cannot be undone.
-The instruments of darkness tell us truths . . .
-By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked
this way comes.
-Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
All nauseatingly fawning feedback gratefully accepted.
OÙ SONT LES TRÉSORS CACHÉS? works well as a full-class, teacher directed activity or as a small group game. After the fun of the oral treasure hunt, assign a handful of co-ordinates and, voilà, an instant written assignment that reinforces the correct spelling of the verb endings. You’ll find that even reluctant learners will be motivated to listen carefully and the promise of “treasure” tends to generate enthusiastic oral participation as well. My answer key is for le présent, le passé composé and le futur simple but the game can be played in virtually every verb tense.
To see if this activity is right for your students, try the free, “Où sont les trésors cachés (les verbes ER):
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/o-sont-les-tr-sors-cach-s--les-verbes-er-6438862
In this co-operative review activity, students who have studied TWELFTH NIGHT match the texts on the edges of sixteen triangles to reconstitute the following quotes:
Oh Time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie!
She did commend my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg, being cross-gartered.
O, had I but followed the arts!
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool and to do that well craves a kind of wit.
Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
This youth that you see here I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death.
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.
I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.
One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons, a natural perspective that is and is not!
In this co-operative review activity, students who have studied ROMEO AND JULIET are asked to match the text on the edges of sixteen triangles to reconstitute the following quotes:
Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
A plague o’ both your houses.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, or never after look me in the face.
For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone till Holy Church incorporate two in one.
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life…
Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
Your lady mother is coming to your chamber: the day is broke; be wary…
O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
Tempt not a desperate man
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Thanks to Diana Martínez, a brilliant young colleague from Mexico, here is the second Spanish game in the ¡Busquemos el tesoro escondido! series. The focus in ¿Dónde están mis regalos de navidad? is self-explanatory. This resource works both as a teacher-directed activity and as a small group game. Even reluctant learners will be motivated to listen carefully and the promise of “treasure” always generates enthusiastic oral participation. After the oral treasure hunt, assign a handful of co-ordinates for instant written conjugation practice. The answer keys are in thebpresent and future tenses but the game can be played in virtually every verb tense.
We have used Mexican Spanish wherever possible.
To see if this activity is right for your students, please download this free sister resource, ¡Busquemos el tesoro escondido! (AR-ending verbs):
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-busquemos-el-tesoro-escondido-ar-ending-verbs-2-0-11522811
Thanks to Diana Martínez, a brilliant young colleague from Mexico, here is a ¡Busquemos el tesoro escondido! game that concentrates on verbs like gustar. This resource works both as a teacher-directed activity and as a small group game. Even reluctant learners will be motivated to listen carefully and the promise of “treasure” generates enthusiastic oral participation as well. After the oral treasure hunt, assign a handful of co-ordinates for instant written conjugation practice. The answer keys are in the present and past tenses but the game can be played in virtually every verb tense.
Please note that we have opted to use Mexican Spanish wherever possible.
To see if this activity is right for your students, download its free
sister resource, ¡Busquemos el tesoro escondido! (AR-ending verbs)
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-busquemos-el-tesoro-escondido-ar-ending-verbs-2-0-11522811