French Teaching Resources: PowerPoint Presentation, Battleships Game and Matching Cards.

The 4 slide PowerPoint elicits and explains what the infinitive and conjugation are and then the conjugation of avoir.

Expressions:

J’ai une trousse et
Tu as un taille crayon et
Il a une règle et
Elle a des ciseaux et
On a des feutres et
Nous avons des bâtons de colle
Vous avez des classeurs et
Ils ont des calculatrices et
Elles ont des sacs et

j’ai les yeux bleus.
tu as les yeux noisette.
il a les yeux verts.
elle a les cheveux blonds.
nous avons les cheveux longs.
vous avez les cheveux frisés.
ils ont un chat.
elles ont un frère.

Battleships Game
Instructions
I use this battleships game (which can also be used as a lotto grid) to help students to practise their pronunciation and to reinforce new vocabulary and grammatical structures.

Firstly I ask the students to work independently in pairs to translate the expressions.

I then check the translations and drill pronunciation with the whole class before they play the game. The students secretly choose 5 squares on the top grid and then try to guess which 5 squares their partner has chosen, filling in the bottom grid with “hit” and “miss.” To choose a square say a phrase from the horizontal line and complete the sentence with a phrase from the vertical line. Where the 2 phrases meet up is the square you have chosen.

I use the English language sheet to further challenge the students: they should place this on top of the French version and then try to play the game saying the French phrases as far as possible from memory. I allow the really weak students to have the French version next to the English version so they have lots of support, stronger students are allowed a few “sneaky peaks” at the French version and the really strong students aim to refer back to the French version as little as possible.

During the game I circulate the classroom checking pronunciation. This is followed by whole class drilling of pronunciation mistakes.

Matching Cards:
Expressions:

J’ai deux sœurs.
Tu as les cheveux blonds.
Il a un grand chien.
Elle a une voiture.
On a un cheval.
Nous avons une belle maison.
Vous avez un poisson rouge.
Ils/Elles ont les cheveux marron.

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 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 = The quick fire questions are from English to Spanish.

Then play pelmenism.