French Teaching Resources. Noughts and Crosses Warmer: range of tenses.

Noughts and crosses/ tic-tac-toe.

I use this game to revise a range of tenses both at the beginning of the school year and throughout the year.

I put the students into 2 teams. One will be noughts the other crosses. They then discuss the translation, tense and pronunciation of the following expressions:

Je fais de la planche à voile depuis l’âge de quinze ans.
Je me suis couchée de bonne heure.
Nous avions un professeur très stricte.
Je suis surpris qu'elle ne t'ait rien dit.
Si mon lycée était fermé aujourd'hui je ferais la grasse matinée jusqu'à neuf heures et demie.
Tu pourras venir samedi après-midi, si tu veux.   
Ils s’étaient habillés rapidement
Je ne suis pas arrivé à l’heure hier.
Je le lui ai donné

Then I draw a noughts and crosses/ tic-tac-toe grid on the board, giving each square a number.
The teams choose a number and I choose a phrase that they must translate, be able to pronounce and be able to identify the tense in order to win the square.
If they make a mistake the other team can steal the square by answering correctly! If that team makes a mistake the original team can have another go and so on. The aim is to get 3 in a row.

This is a challenging game!