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I am a secondary and adult education French and ESL teacher and I love creating resources that help my students have fun with languages! You'll see many speaking games, grammar games, and task cards in my shop.
I am a secondary and adult education French and ESL teacher and I love creating resources that help my students have fun with languages! You'll see many speaking games, grammar games, and task cards in my shop.
Play this ESL SPRING Vocabulary Taboo game and have some fun!
Playing games and having fun is when learning really happens in ESL class. I love to play the game Taboo with my students. ESL taboo is a game that is easy to modify and use with beginners and advanced students alike.
Your students will learn a lot of new and useful vocabulary while playing this fun speaking game.
This ESL SPRING Vocabulary Taboo game includes:
40 different Taboo game cards to create a deck that you will print and cut out for as many teams as you need (black and white + color versions provided). I like to laminate them, punch holes and hook the cards together with a keyring. Talk about years to come of no prep activities!
Game instructions for both beginner and advanced students.
Object of the game:
One player tries to get his teammate to guess the word at the top of a card. The player must give clues, but he can't use any of the Taboo words in his description. The taboo words are those written beneath the word at the top of the card. Teams score points for each word successfully guessed, and the team with the most points wins.
Want your French students to use their MAISON / HOUSE vocabulary? This NO PREP activity is a fun way to encourage your low intermediate to advanced students to speak more.
This resource is also part of a money saving bundle that you are going to ♡:
La Maison - Vocabulary Speaking Activities 4-PACK: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/la-maison-vocabulary-speaking-activities-bundle-11576015
You can use it after learning specific vocabulary for the house or as a fun interactive activity on a day when you want to just focus on speaking and reviewing vocabulary in a different way.
There are 30 questions in all. Most of the questions are in the EST-CE QUE form, and they are asked in the TU form. More than half of the questions begin with an interrogative word encouraging more than OUI and NON responses. Most questions are asked in the present tense, but some are in the passé composé.
Topics used in these cards:
* Different kinds of homes
* Household chores
* Rooms in a house
* Furniture
* Preferences
All cards are visually stimulating and feature a circle to punch out in the upper left corner so that you can print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and hook the cards together with a keyring. Have a look at the thumbnail to see how cute they turn out. Using these cards this way makes it easy to pull them out year after year to use as NO PREP speaking activities.
This is a really fun game to practice with your students who are learning vocabulary about CHEZ LE MÉDECIN, and it involves NO PREP once you've printed and cut out the cards. I've included both a beginner and intermediate version of the game as well as black and white and color versions. The beginner version has the words written out and the intermediate version only shows pictures. Have a look at the thumbnails to see what they look like.
Each version includes 41 cards. Depending on class size you could either give each student more than one card or have them play with a partner. I recommend printing out and laminating these cards if possible so that you can use them over and over again.
You may also be interested in these related resources:
Chez le Médecin - French Taboo Speaking Game: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/chez-le-m-decin-french-taboo-speaking-game-11585849
French Speaking Questions - Chez le Médecin - Doctor and Hospital Vocabulary: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/french-speaking-questions-chez-le-m-decin-doctor-and-hospital-vocabulary-11585151
Here's how this game works. Once each student has a card (or cards), the one who has the card that says "Je commence" starts the game. He says, for example, Je commence! J'ai une fraise. Qui a une orange? The person who has the card with an orange on it says, J'ai une orange. Qui a du bacon? And so the game goes on until the last card is called and that student's card will say, J'ai fini!
Another idea is to prepare two sets of cards, divide your class into two groups and let each group have a go to see which team can get through the entire deck of cards the fastest. If the vocabulary is completely new you could start out with the beginner deck and as the words become more familiar you could move on to the intermediate level. It's really a lot of fun, and though you can play with younger students the older ones love this game just as much.
Using cootie catchers (fortune tellers) to get students speaking to each other and to help them get to know their classmates better is a great idea at any time of the year. Your students already love them, and cootie catchers are the perfect ice breaker activity for back to school. This resource is in English and is suitable for any teacher who wants his or her students to interact and learn fun facts about each other.
This file includes ten different ice breaker cootie catchers. The file also contains 2 blank templates for making your own cootie catchers (a perfect activity for test review questions). Each version includes 8 fun questions for a total of 80 getting to know you questions. Some of the questions are really silly while others demand more reflection.
Here's everything you get:
10 different cootie catchers, each has 8 questions for a total of 80
Color and black and white copies are included
2 blank templates to make your own review games (one with classic cars and one with flowers)
Instructions on how to fold cootie catchers
Use this set of INTERMEDIATE ESL conversation starters and speaking prompt cards to get even your most timid students talking to each other in English. These 83 question cards are terrific for discussion and journal writing prompts and they span 13 different themes:
➤ languages
➤ work
➤ animals
➤ health
➤ your region
➤ transport
➤ books
➤ what would you prefer…
➤ travels
➤ household chores
➤ food
➤ shopping
➤ sports
This no prep activity is perfect for small groups or centers. Use these cards as a review and vocabulary builder with ESL students at the lower intermediate to mid-intermediate level. An easy to project PDF in color with only one card per page is included in case you want to work on the questions as a class without printing and cutting out the cards.
Included:
83 question cards (color and black and white versions as you see in the thumbnails)
Ways to use these cards
Easy to project PDF file (one card per page)
There are many ways you can use this set of 83 speaking cards:
➤ Print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and attach on a ring for small groups to ask and answer questions.
➤ Use as a warm-up speaking activity or ice breaker with a conversation partner. As students enter the classroom have them choose 2-3 cards from a box.
➤ Students who finish their work earlier than others can choose a few of the cards and write out their answers including reasons for their preferences.
➤ Use as exit tickets. Give each student a card before the end of class and as they walk out of the room they tell the teacher their answer.
➤ Stations: Put students into groups and divide the cards amongst them. Have groups rotate to a new station as they finish the cards.
➤ Scoot: Put one card on each desk in the classroom. Give each student a response sheet and set a timer to give them just enough time to answer the question. When the timer rings students move on to the next desk and the next question.
➤ Use the cards with board games. Students must answer a question in order to move.
➤ Use the cards as a getting to know you activity or ice breaker at the beginning of the year or at a club event.
➤ Great resource for tutoring sessions.
Le futur simple - French simple future worksheet
Worksheet to practice using the French futur simple tense with regular and irregular verb stems. This exercise includes 15 fill in the blank sentences. Answer key provided.
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Le Petit Bac - French Scattergories Game
This is a really fun activity to play with your students as they practice and build their vocabulary in French. Le Petit Bac sera le jeu parfait! You can play this game with students of literally any age or level, and it's perfect for both core and immersion curriculums.
Players attempt to create answers for each of the four categories on their game. This should be a fast moving game and there are only spaces for six words per category. The MAXIMUM they can write is six words so they have to choose them wisely. Students can be creative and flexible with their answers, but other players can challenge them!
24 games are included with 96 different categories! You can either print out the game sheets or project them to save paper and ink. For younger students you can allow more time for them to think and write, while older students will love the challenge of the timer.
Relative pronouns - DONT et OÙ - French grammar worksheet
Worksheet to practice using French relative pronouns DONT et OÙ. This exercise includes 20 fill in the blank sentences. Answer key provided.
LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.
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Restaurants - ESL Taboo Speaking Game
Playing TABOO is a great way to get ESL students to speak English and learn a lot of new vocabulary. This game is simple to modify and use with beginners and advanced students alike. In this RESTAURANTS theme version of the game there are 30 playing cards. I've included 2 fun ways to play this fun vocabulary game and both are explained in the instructions.
This ESL Taboo game includes the following:
How to play classic Taboo (beginner and advanced levels)
30 Taboo game cards to print, laminate, cut out and hook together with a ring
How to play 15 MINUTES MAX - an alternative version of the game
15 MINUTES MAX game board
File for projecting one card at a time for an all class activity
*In the upper left corner there's a spot for you to punch holes in the cards so that you can then attach them with a ring for no prep use every time. Be sure to laminate if at all possible!
Object of the game:
One player tries to get his teammate to guess the word at the top of a card. The player must give clues, but he can't use any of the Taboo words in his description. The taboo words are written beneath the word at the top of the card. Teams score points for each word successfully guessed. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Beginner students should be allowed to use the TABOO words printed on the cards. This will encourage them to use new vocabulary and will help them in forming sentences to use as clues.
LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.
COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.
French passé composé with être - French grammar worksheet
Worksheet to practice using the passé composé with être. Sentences are written in the present tense and students rewrite them in the passé composé. All 17 DRMRSPVANDERTRAMP verbs are included.This worksheet includes 17 sentences.
LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.
COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.
French passé composé with être - French grammar worksheet
French -ER verbs crossword puzzle - regular -ER verbs - present tense
Want your French students to have some fun when learning regular French -ER verbs in the present tense? This NO PREP crossword puzzle is a fun way to shake things up a little. The clues given are verbs in the infinitive form along with a subject pronoun. Students fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in the present tense.
LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.
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La maison - French 20 questions games - No prep printable speaking activities
The game of 20 questions is a fun and effective way to practice forming French questions and in these 4 versions of the game, students will learn over 200 nouns that go way beyond what they learn from a textbook chapter theme about house and home.
The words in the game include rooms in a house, different kinds of housing, parts of a house, common household and garden items and more. These games will work for any level as they are written in French and English. Want a real challenge for your upper levels or immersion students? Use the French only versions!
Included:
4 versions with vocabulary written in French and English
4 versions with vocabulary written in French only
Have students work in small groups of 2-4 or project the version of the game that you want to use and do a whole class activity.
Each version includes 52 words. Many of the words will be new to your students as this game is meant not only to practice forming questions, but also to build vocabulary. I like to allow my students to look at the game chart while they play until they’re somewhat familiar with the words. After they’ve played the games a few times looking at the French-English version they feel more prepared to move on to the French only version.
One student in the small group or class chooses a word on the chart. Other students ask up to 20 questions trying to guess the secret word.
EST-CE QUE…….
… tu es une personne?
… tu es un animal?
… tu es un minéral?
… tu es un endroit?
… tu es un aliment?
… tu es une plante?
… tu es un objet?
The student who has chosen the secret word can answer using the following responses: OUI - NON - PARFOIS - RAREMENT - GÉNÉRALEMENT - PEUT-ÊTRE - CELA DÉPEND - PROBABLEMENT
Alternative game play:
To change up the game and to make it more challenging as well as practicing other skills, have the student who chooses the secret word describe it to others in the group. Instead of asking questions about the secret word, other students listen to the description and guess it.
LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.
COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.
**Full year French writing program - 50 French writing activities - Écriture sans préparation **
This whole year French writing program will have your students writing every day. Each of the fifty writing activities in this program includes five pre-writing and writing activities for Monday through Friday. These writing prompts are a great way both to introduce and to review writing. Provide each student with a paragraphe de la semaine folder and have them add to it every day as you give them daily assignments. At the end of the week have them turn in their folders. On Monday, you can start over again with a new theme.
This paragraphe de la semaine writing resource contains 50 weeks worth of Monday through Friday prewriting and writing activities. When you purchase this French writing bundle you save 25% and as a bundle bonus you also get the same prompts in the form of speaking cards for differentiated learning. This encourages students to speak to each other in small groups using the same themes and vocabulary they’ve worked with through the writing program. For the speaking prompts, there is also a PDF with only one card per slide if you prefer to project the prompts or use them on tablets rather than printing.
Use these weekly no prep writing activities with many different levels whether you teach primary immersion, primary core, or traditional middle and high school. You can easily modify the activities for older students. The themed prompts are suitable for any age. For older students you can just leave out the drawing activity and move through the others more quickly than you would with younger ones.
Here are the themes included in set 1:
❶ le matin
❷ le week-end
❸ ma chambre
❹ je n’ai pas peur
❺ ma matière préférée
❻ les vacances
❼ les voisins
❽ la pizza
❾ la pluie
❿ l’école
Here are the themes included in set 2:
❶ la personne que j’admire le plus
❷ mon anniversaire
❸ mon repas préféré
❹ les restaurants
❺ les sports
❻ après l’école
❼ les vêtements
❽ mon quartier
❾ notre salle de classe
❿ les émotions
Here are the themes included in set 3:
❶ l’hiver
❷ mes parents
❸ j’étais fier
❹ je n’aime pas manger
❺ les devoirs
❻ être heureux
❼ un château de sable
❽ le soir
❾ j’ai peur
❿ bien élevé
Here are the themes included in set 4:
❶ une cabane dans les arbres
❷ je n’aime vraiment pas manger
❸ un bon sandwich
❹ rester en bonne santé
❺ le samedi après-midi
❻ quand je serai adulte
❼ la piscine
�� un parc d’attractions
❾ le zoo
❿ trois souhaits
Here are the themes included in set 5:
❶ si j’étais invisible
❷ si j’étais un serpent
❸ la mer
❹ la montagne
❺ la télévision
❻ la lune
❼ voyager dans le temps
❽ si je savais voler
❾ les notes
❿ sous mon lit
Here’s how this writing program works:
✍Lundi: Je dessine - Give students a drawing page with a writing prompt at the top. This will have them beginning to think about the writing theme for the week and is their first pre-writing assignment. Kids love drawing, and the pictures they draw will later serve as inspiration!
✍Mardi: Mon livret de vocabulaire - Each student receives a booklet to help them explore the vocabulary related to the week’s writing theme. The front page includes the writing prompt of the week and an image. The second page includes over 80 frequently used French words. Page three lists 12 words that go along with the theme of the week, and the back page has space for ten words that students have either thought of on their own or looked up in the dictionary. The booklet is a simple one page printable that you can either fold in advance or have students do it on their own. Kids write their name on the front cover and you could have them color it.
✍Mercredi: Vocabulaire - Students go back to their vocabulary booklets from Tuesday and choose ten words that they will include in their rough draft. The words they choose can be a combination of words they have chosen and themed vocabulary that was already written in the booklet. They then write down the chosen words on their vocabulary page that says “ Mots de vocabulaire utiles: J’utiliserai ces mots dans mon paragraphe.”
✍Jeudi: Mon brouillon - Students write a rough draft of their paragraph using the vocabulary words selected on Wednesday. The brouillon page includes a 5 point checklist at the top for students to evaluate their work for themselves before writing the final copy on Friday. This will motivate students to look over their work and make corrections.
✍Vendredi: Ma copie propre - The fifth and final step in this writing program is to write the final copy. Students should feel very confident in writing about this week’s theme by now. At the top of the final copy page they’ll see the writing prompt and question words that they can ask themselves while writing: qui - quoi - quand - où - pourquoi - comment
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Ways you can use this writing program:**
✎ Enhance your writing program by practicing a little every day.
✎ Use the prompts at writing centers Monday - Friday.
✎ Daily 5 rotations
✎ Homework
✎ Writing centers
✎ Fast finishers
✎ Tutoring sessions
✎ No prep sub materials
✎ Morning work
✎ Project on whiteboard for a whole class speaking activity
My French students always get confused when expressing durations of time. This resource includes a one page handout with simplified rules and examples in French and English for when to use pour, pendant, depuis, and il y a. There is space beneath each rule and example for students to write their own examples in French and English.
The exercise that follows includes 25 sentences for students to fill in the blanks with pour, pendant, depuis or il y a. A variety of tenses are used in this exercise. Sentences are written in the present tense, passé composé with both être and avoir as helping verbs, futur proche, passé récent, futur simple, and imperfect. Answer key is included.
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Merci beaucoup!
These cut and paste worksheets will help your beginner French students learn the days of the week and the months. Great for core French and immersion schools!
How to use these worksheets:
One worksheet is included for the days of the week and the 12 months are on two sheets. Have your students cut off the bottom part of the worksheet where indicated with scissors. Then have them cut out the days and months. Now they’re ready to paste the days and months in the right spot on the paper. They should put the days and months in chronological order. Next to each numbered space there are lines where students write out the days and months to help with spelling. When they’ve finished they’ll enjoy coloring the numbers and the little black and white image at the top of the page.
LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.
COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.
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Playing French TABOO is a great way to get students to speak French and learn a lot of new vocabulary. This game is simple to modify and use with beginners and advanced students alike. In this classic version of the game there is no particular vocabulary theme. 50 French-English cards are included. There are 2 fun ways to play this fun vocabulary game and both are explained in the instructions.
All of the words on the cards are in French and English. This is very useful as many of the words will be new to students.
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This French Taboo game includes the following:
How to play classic Taboo (beginner and advanced levels)
50 Taboo game cards to print, laminate, cut out and hook together with a keyring
How to play 15 MINUTES MAX - an alternative version of the game
15 MINUTES MAX game board
Sheet to record new words in French and English (nouveaux mots)
*In the upper left corner there’s a spot for you to punch holes in the cards so that you can then attach them with a ring for no prep use every time. Be sure to laminate if at all possible!
Object of the game:
One player tries to get his teammate to guess the word at the top of a card. The player must give clues, but he can’t use any of the Taboo words in his description. The taboo words are written beneath the word at the top of the card. Teams score points for each word successfully guessed. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Beginner students should be allowed to use the TABOO words printed on the cards. This will encourage them to use new vocabulary and will help them in forming sentences to use as clues.
Here are fifteen French sentences to rewrite in the correct order. Sentences must then be rewritten without the usage of pronouns encouraging student creativity. French pronouns used in this exercise: le / la / les / lui / leur / y / en
See the preview for directions and an example. Answer key included (except for the part where students have to rewrite the sentences without pronouns, as answers will vary).
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This product includes a support guide to teaching and learning the French past conditional as well as a 5 part translation exercise with answers included. The translations are from English to French and they involve using the present and past conditional as well as other grammar points and verb tenses that students at this level should be comfortable with.
In this lesson I pay special attention to how to say "would have been", "could have been" and "should have been" in French.
We teachers know that learning the French past conditional isn't so difficult once you know how to form the passé composé, but our students often need lots of examples and exercises to help them see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Everyone loves a good game of BATTLESHIP, and the French classroom is a better place than any! You can use this classic game format to practice regular -ER verbs. This resource includes 40 regular verbs. 5 different versions of the game are included.
Check out my collection of BATAILLE NAVALE games!
This resource is also sold at a discounted price in my BATAILLE NAVALE BUNDLE: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/french-bataille-navale-games-growing-bundle-11608221
Just print out one page of the version you want to use per student. Students place boats (which are squares on the game sheets that they will have darkened with a pencil) on the game board. Students play against each other to try to find and eventually sink their opponent’s boats.
Subject pronouns are written in the vertical column and infinitives are written in the boxes at the top. To choose a square, the player must say the subject and correct verb form in the present tense. If you wanted to practice writing in the passé composé you could have your students do that. Another idea is to have students make simple sentences using the subject pronoun and verb of choice.
All of the vocabulary they’ll need is written right on the game sheet and it is all in French. Each game sheet includes two battleship grids and a line separating the two. Students can fold the paper on the line if they want to. One of the grids is for a player to place his boats and the other is to mark and keep track of his opponent.
This resource includes 5 versions of the game with both black and white and color copies.
VERB RACE is a fun and very exciting way to practice passé composé with être conjugations. Your students are going to love this set of 75 French verbs to use in the fast moving VERB RACE GAME. This set includes 75 verbs that use être as helping verb in the passé composé (including reflexive verbs).
Classic verb race involves dividing the class into teams and one person from each team goes up to the board to conjugate faster than everyone else. I've included full instructions, tips and rules with this resource. VERB RACE has always been a huge favorite in my classroom.
In classic VERB RACE it is usually the teacher who moderates the game, but in the instructions I'll explain in detail how you can play a student led game so that even your weakest students can participate and learn a ton.
I'm including a powerpoint version of the game WITHOUT ANSWERS and student response sheets should you want to project the game and play as a class or in small groups without moving out of desks and up to the board.
Also with this resource you'll receive 75 task cards without responses (answer key included). You can use these cards in STATIONS, in a game of SCOOT or in classic BOARD GAMES.
I recommend printing out the cards, laminating them if possible, cutting them out, punching holes in the space provided and hooking them together with a ring for years of NO PREP usage and verb conjugation review.
Here's exactly what you get:
75 calling cards with answers - Black and white and color versions provided
75 numbered task cards without answers - Black and white and color versions provided
Powerpoint version of 75 cards without answers
How to play and other ways to use the cards
Student response sheet
Answer key
