French Connect 4 Game - ALLER - Imperfect Tense This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your beginner students review avoir in the imperfect tense. In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the correct conjugations of the verb avoir, which is listed at the bottom of the game board. Subject pronouns are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Included: One game board How to play Answer key

French Connect 4 Game - FAIRE - Imperfect Tense This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your beginner students review faire in the imperfect tense. In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the correct conjugations of the verb faire, which is listed at the bottom of the game board. Subject pronouns are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Included: One game board How to play Answer key

ALLER - Imperfect Tense - French Connect 4 Game This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your beginner students review aller in the imperfect tense. In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the correct conjugations of the verb aller, which is listed at the bottom of the game board. Subject pronouns are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Included: One game board How to play Answer key

Name That Tense is an activity for reviewing verb tenses with your advanced French students. These 200 practice cards provide a challenging AP or French 4 review. You can use this activity on a few different levels. The most challenging way is to use the cards written in English, have students name the French tense that needs to be used, then have them translate the sentences to French. You may choose to use the cards written in French, and simply have students identify and name the tenses they read. These practice cards provide an excellent opportunity to review the answers together, and to explain why each tense was chosen for a particular sentence. The files are easy to share with your students for distance learning. The first 50 cards use these tenses: le présent, l’imparfait, le futur simple, le passé composé, le conditionnel, le plus-que-parfait et le conditionnel passé. The second 50 cards use all of the tenses mentioned above, and also include cards using: le futur antérieur, le subjonctif, le subjonctif passé, l’impératif, et le passé récent, and many si clauses are included. Included: 100 practice cards written in English 100 practice cards written in French Answer key in French and English

French Connect 4 Game - FAIRE - Present Tense This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your beginner students review faire in the present tense. In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the correct conjugations of the verb faire, which is listed at the bottom of the game board. Subject pronouns are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Included: One game board How to play Answer key

French Connect 4 Game - ALLER - Present Tense This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your beginner students review avoir in the present tense. In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the correct conjugations of the verb avoir, which is listed at the bottom of the game board. Subject pronouns are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Included: One game board How to play Answer key

French Connect 4 Game - ÊTRE - ALLER - AVOIR - FAIRE - Present Tense This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your beginner students review être, aller, avoir, and faire in the present tense. In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the correct conjugations of the verbs, which are listed twice each at the bottom of the game board. Subject pronouns are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Included: One game board How to play Answer key

French Connect 4 Game - ÊTRE - Present Tense This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your beginner students review être in the present tense. In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the correct conjugations of the verb être, which is listed at the bottom of the game board. Subject pronouns are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Included: One game board How to play Answer key

French Connect 4 Game - ALLER - Present Tense This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your beginner students review aller in the present tense. In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the correct conjugations of the verb aller, which is listed at the bottom of the game board. Subject pronouns are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Included: One game board How to play Answer key

French Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening Activity: RENCONTREZ MANON The personal description of the personnage in this activity can either be used a speaking or writing prompt. Reading and listening comprehension included. Sometimes it’s difficult to come up with good ideas for creative story-telling or imaginative writing. Very often, we’re so focused on producing correct grammar that we forget how much fun it can be to tell stories! If you’ve been looking for creative prompts to get the ball rolling for your upper-intermediate level students, I know you’ll have fun with this resource. It includes a story to listen to and read along, then students can complete listening comprehension and 1st conditional SI CLAUSE activities. Read on to find out more how you can use this resource for creative writing and speaking. Here’s what you need to know about MANON: c’est une jeune femme de 20 ans elle est étudiante elle travaille beaucoup elle partage un appartement avec deux autres étudiants elle rentre chez ses parents deux fois par mois elle n’a pas de voiture INCLUDED: Detailed background information about MANON Si clause writing activity - 1st conditional - Futur simple + present tense Story about Manon based on her background information - Approximately 500 words MP4 audio recording - Listen to the story read aloud Listening comprehension cloze activity STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS: STEP 1: Read the personal details about MANON, an interesting personnage. STEP 2: Once you know MANON’S background, complete the si clause prompts provided. They all begin in the futur simple, and you should finish them in the present tense. This step will help you build up to writing a story! STEP 3: Listen to a story about MANON. Don’t read the text yet. Just listen, and see how much you can understand. STEP 4: Complete the cloze activity to test your listening comprehension before you read the actual text. Fill in 20 blanks with words you hear in the MP4 recording. A word bank is provided. STEP 5: Check your work as you read the full text for the first time. Take some time to read the English translation provided to compare sentence structure. Be sure to note new vocabulary words and expressions. STEP 6: It’s time to try your hand at creative writing in French! The story you listened to will give you an idea of what kind of story you can write, but be sure to use your imagination! The background information and the si clauses you wrote will give you something to work with. The more you read and write in French, the better your understanding of sentence structure will be. You’ll also be amazed at how much vocabulary you will learn! Use as many verb tenses, pronouns, and other grammatical structures as possible in your story.

L’école - Lecteurs débutants - French reader cut and paste This set of five RÉSOUS-LE / SOLVE THE SENTENCE hands-on puzzle activities will keep your primary French students engaged while learning to read by putting words together to form sentences. This set follows a school theme and includes sight words (mots fréquents) for first and second grade. In addition to having fun while reading, students will be challenged and develop reasoning skills while solving each of the 5 puzzles. They will feel such a sense of pride and accomplishment every time they get to color in a computer screen on the progress chart. Once they’ve completed all five puzzles and hooked them together with a ring or stapled them, they can take them home and show mom and dad how much they’re learning in your class. Begin with the DÉBUT strip, look at the word written on it, find the strip with words that make sense to continue a sentence, and keep going this way until you reach LA FIN and have logically sorted out a sentence with at least 12 words. Here’s what you get: 5 worksheets with sentence puzzles to solve A handy fill in chart for students to track their progress A cover page to color and decorate Teacher instructions A few ways you can use these worksheets: No prep homework Warm up work Early finishers Literacy centers Test review Tutoring Mini-assessment

French Connect 4 Game - Avoir Mal This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your students review avoir mal + body part. In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the conjugations of avoir and the body parts listed at the bottom of the game board (see the body parts used below). Subject pronouns are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Expressions used: AVOIR MAL À LA TÊTE AVOIR MAL AU VENTRE AVOIR MAL AUX YEUX AVOIR MAL AUX OREILLES AVOIR MAL AU DOS AVOIR MAL À LA GORGE AVOIR MAL AUX DENTS AVOIR MAL AUX JAMBES Included: One game board How to play Answer key

French Connect 4 Game - Faire Expressions This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your students review faire expressions in the present tense. In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the conjugations of faire along with the expressions listed at the bottom of the game board (see the expressions used below). Subject pronouns are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Expressions used: FAIRE DU SPORT FAIRE LES COURSES FAIRE DU PIANO FAIRE DU SHOPPING FAIRE LA CUISINE FAIRE DES BÊTISES FAIRE LA QUEUE FAIRE LA TÊTE Included: One game board How to play Answer key

French Connect 4 Game - Aller with Places This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your students review aller in the present tense with prepositions and places. In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the conjugations of aller along with the prepositions and places listed at the bottom of the game board (see the places used below). Subject pronouns are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Prepositions and places used: À L’ÉCOLE CHEZ MES AMIS AU PARC À LA PHARMACIE DANS LE JARDIN À L’HÔPITAL DANS LA CUISINE CHEZ LE MÉDECIN Included: One game board How to play Answer key

French Connect 4 Game - Present tense être with descriptive adjectives This is a fun, quick, and easy way to have your students review être in the present tense with descriptive adjectives In order to win, students connect four boxes by filling them in with the correct forms of the eight adjectives listed at the bottom of the game board (see the adjectives used below). Subject pronouns and genders are listed on the left. Students take turns filling in boxes until four are connected. At this point, they can check their work using the answer key provided. If any of the conjugations are incorrect, the game continues. Full instructions are included. Adjectives used: AMUSANT INTELLIGENT CURIEUX PATIENT GENTIL COURAGEUX VIEUX TRAVAILLEUR Included: One game board How to play Answer key

Spanish Primary Writing Program - Mi restaurante preferido es… Theme: Mi restaurante preferido es… This one week SPANISH writing program will have your students writing every day of the week, and is perfect for Spanish immersion. The writing activities in this program include five prewriting 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 “párrafo de la semana” 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. Here’s how this program works: Lunes: Dibujo - 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! Martes: Mi folleto de vocabulario - 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 Spanish 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. Miercoles: Vocabulario - 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 “ Palabras de vocabulario útiles: Voy a utilizar estas palabras en mi párrafo". Jueves: Mi borrador - 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. Viernes: Mi borrador final - 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: quién - qué - cuándo - dónde - por qué - cómo 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

Spanish Primary Writing Program - Mi comida favorita es… Theme: Mi comida favorita es… This one week SPANISH writing program will have your students writing every day of the week, and is perfect for Spanish immersion. The writing activities in this program include five prewriting 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 “párrafo de la semana” 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. Here’s how this program works: Lunes: Dibujo - 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! Martes: Mi folleto de vocabulario - 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 Spanish 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. Miercoles: Vocabulario - 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 “ Palabras de vocabulario útiles: Voy a utilizar estas palabras en mi párrafo". Jueves: Mi borrador - 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. Viernes: Mi borrador final - 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: quién - qué - cuándo - dónde - por qué - cómo 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

Être - Present Tense French Tic Tac Toe Games - No Prep Printable Tic Tac Toe is a fun game that your students already know how to play, and it is a simple way to get them conjugating and pronouncing the irregular verb être in the present tense. Students play in pairs, conjugating être so that it agrees with the subject pronoun in each box, saying answers aloud to claim squares on tic tac toe grids. Three correctly conjugated verbs in a row wins the game. This one page worksheet has 6 different games, and it works very well as a 10 - 15 minute partner or station activity. Tic tac toe games are a terrific way to get in a quick, fun, and easy review!

Spanish Primary Writing Program - Después de la escuela me gusta… Theme: Después de la escuela me gusta… This one week SPANISH writing program will have your students writing every day of the week, and is perfect for Spanish immersion. The writing activities in this program include five prewriting 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 “párrafo de la semana” 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. Here’s how this program works: Lunes: Dibujo - 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! Martes: Mi folleto de vocabulario - 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 Spanish 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. Miercoles: Vocabulario - 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 “ Palabras de vocabulario útiles: Voy a utilizar estas palabras en mi párrafo". Jueves: Mi borrador - 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. Viernes: Mi borrador final - 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: quién - qué - cuándo - dónde - por qué - cómo 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

Spanish Primary Writing Program - Mi deporte favorito es… Theme: Mi deporte favorito es… This one week SPANISH writing program will have your students writing every day of the week, and is perfect for Spanish immersion. The writing activities in this program include five prewriting 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 “párrafo de la semana” 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. Here’s how this program works: Lunes: Dibujo - 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! Martes: Mi folleto de vocabulario - 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 Spanish 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. Miercoles: Vocabulario - 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 “ Palabras de vocabulario útiles: Voy a utilizar estas palabras en mi párrafo". Jueves: Mi borrador - 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. Viernes: Mi borrador final - 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: quién - qué - cuándo - dónde - por qué - cómo 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