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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.
This is an easy to play 30 minute dice game to practice the French plus-que-parfait tense with regular, irregular and reflexive verbs using both être and avoir as helping verbs.
My high school students love this game, and it can get very competitive if you decide to play it as a race (details are explained with the activity).
Students divide up into teams and play a dice game, the dice determining which subject and infinitive to conjugate in the plus-que-parfait.
Included with this activity:
How to play
Five different versions of the game with answers
Student response and scoring sheet
This dice game is an especially fun way to practice while learning about the plus-que-parfait. More advanced students also benefit from the review.
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The verb ÊTRE is one of the most important verbs in French. Have some fun with this simple dice game to reinforce 32 different ÊTRE expressions as well as the conjugation of the verb in any tense you wish.
You will receive 5 different versions of this dice game that will last 30 minutes if you choose to follow the instructions I’ve included. See the preview for an example. Students work in teams. One student per team is in charge of checking everyone’s work. You’ll need two dice per team. The first die indicates the subject to use and the second indicates which ÊTRE expression to identify. Only the images are shown. There is no English written anywhere on this game.
What’s included:
List of 32 être expressions with images and Quizlet link
5 versions of the game
How to play
Student response and scoring sheet
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This is an easy to play 30 minute dice game to practice French reflexive verbs in the passé composé.
My high school and middle school students love this game, and it can get very competitive if you decide to play it as a race (details are explained with the activity).
Students divide up into teams and play a dice game, the dice determining which subject and infinitive to conjugate in the passé composé tense.
Included with this activity:
How to play
Six different versions of the game with answers
Student response and scoring sheet
This dice game is an especially fun way to practice while learning about reflexive verbs. More advanced students also benefit from the review.
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This is an easy to play 30 minute dice game to practice the French past conditional tense with regular and irregular verbs.
My high school students love this game, and it can get very competitive if you decide to play it as a race (details are explained with the activity).
Students divide up into teams and play a dice game, the dice determining which subject and infinitive to conjugate in the past conditional tense.
Included with this activity:
How to play
Six different versions of the game with answers
Student response and scoring sheet
This dice game is an especially fun way to practice while learning about the past conditional. More advanced students also benefit from the review.
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French Thanksgiving Question Cards - 30 French Thanksgiving Speaking Prompts
Want your students to have some fun speaking French to each other in November using seasonal THANKSGIVING vocabulary? This NO PREP activity is a fun way to encourage your students to speak more and is a perfect resource to use in immersion, core or homeschool curriculums.
You can use these cards after teaching specific vocabulary for Thanksgiving or as a fun interactive activity on a day when you want to just focus on speaking and reviewing in a different way. I've included 10 of my favorite ways to use these cards.
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 ring. Using these cards this way makes it easy to pull them out year after year to use as NO PREP speaking activities.
Included:
30 speaking prompt cards - color (4 per page to print and cut out)
30 speaking prompt cards - black and white
PDF version to project and avoid printing (1 card per page to project)
10 different ways to use these cards
Scoot game instructions
Scoot recording sheet
There are many ways you can use this set of cards:
➤ Print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and attach on a ring for small groups to ask and answer questions.
➤ Project the pdf file in class to work in group or with your whole class and avoid printing.
➤ Use as a warm-up speaking activity 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 correct answers to false statements.
➤ 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 true or false and to correct the false statements. When the timer rings students move on to the next desk and the next question. All cards are numbered so it is simple to stay organized. Full instructions are included.
➤ Use the cards with board games. Students must answer a question in order to move.
➤ Use the cards as an icebreaker activity at the beginning of the school year or right after school holidays.
➤ Great resource for tutoring sessions and vocabulary building.
Playing TABOO in English is a great way to get ESL students to speak English and learn a lot of new vocabulary. This game focuses on HOUSE AND HOME vocabulary. It is simple to modify and use with beginners and advanced students alike. Advanced students try to get teammates to guess the word at the top of the card without saying any of the "taboo" words listed below. Beginner students can still play, but they should be allowed to use the "taboo" words to help learn new vocabulary and build sentences in English.
This ESL Taboo game includes the following:
30 Taboo game cards to print, cut out and laminate if possible
Color and black and white versions included
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 Christmas skit and reading comprehension - Noël - Mini-dialogue
This is a French dialogue about Christmas between two people. The title of this skit is Le Père Noël est occupé. Short skits or dialogues like this one can be used in many ways during the weeks leading up to Christmas. Have students work in pairs or small groups to read through the skit and maybe even perform it for the class! This skit can also be used as an individual reading comprehension assessment. 14 reading comprehension questions are included. The skit can be printed on one side of a sheet of paper and the questions on the other for a really easy, NO PREP Christmas activity. The grammar level is intermediate. Most of the verbs are in the present or passé composé, and very few pronouns are used. Your students will learn a lot of new Christmas vocabulary, and they’re going to have a great time with this activity! Everything is written in French only.
These 30 questions are just right for beginners who need to practice the FUTUR PROCHE, and they are a perfect no prep speaking activity for busy teachers. Each EST-CE QUE question uses the verb ALLER with infinitives. In order to avoid OUI and NON answers, each question also includes an interrogative word which is great practice in helping to remember what they mean and where they're place in the sentence.
Just cut out the 30 cards, punch holes in the spaces provided and attach the stack of cards with a key ring. It would be a great idea to print on card stock and laminate the cards before punching holes and attaching them. Super easy and no prep for years to come. Both black and white and color versions are included.
This is an easy to play 30 minute dice game to practice 36 different regular French -ER verbs in the present tense.
My high school students love this game, and it can get very competitive if you decide to play it as a race (details are explained with the activity).
Students divide up into teams and play a dice game, the dice determining which subject and -ER verb to conjugate in the present tense.
Included with this activity:
How to play
Six different versions of the game with answers
Student response and scoring sheet
This dice game is an especially fun way to practice while learning about the present tense. More advanced students also benefit from the review.
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.
Play this French Thanksgiving Taboo game and have some fun with your students this fall!
Playing games and having fun is when learning really happens in French class. I love to play the game Taboo with my students. French taboo is a game that is easy to modify and use with beginners and advanced students alike.
Included:
30 playing cards in French and English to print, cut out and laminate - color copy
30 playing cards in French and English to print, cut out and laminate - black and white copy
File for projecting one card at a time
Sheet for recording new vocabulary words
15 mots max - alternative way to play
How to play
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.
Halloween vocabulary - 30 ESL Halloween speaking prompt question cards
Want your students to use their HALLOWEEN vocabulary in fun and meaningful conversations? This NO PREP activity is a fun way to encourage your students to speak more to each other about Halloween traditions and holiday fun. This resource is suitable for any curriculum in which English is the language spoken, and will work best for students in 3rd to 12th grade.
You can use these cards after learning specific vocabulary for Halloween during the month of October or as a fun interactive activity on a day when you want to just focus on speaking and reviewing vocabulary in a different way.
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 ring. Using these cards this way makes it easy to pull them out year after year to use as NO PREP speaking activities. A pdf with only one card per page is included for easy projection when you don't want to print.
Included:
30 color speaking prompt cards
30 black and white speaking prompt cards
9 ways to use these cards
Easy to project file for whole class activity
Scoot activity instructions
Scoot student recording sheet
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.
Halloween vocabulary - 30 ESL Halloween speaking prompt question cards
New Year - 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 NEW YEAR'S 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
Black and white and grayscale copies are included
PDF for projecting one card at a time for a whole class activity
How to play 15 MINUTES MAX - an alternative version of the game
15 MINUTES MAX game board
*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.
Winter Vocabulary - 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 WINTER (not Christmas related) version of the game there are 28 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
Black and white and grayscale copies are included
PDF for projecting one card at a time for a whole class activity
How to play 15 MINUTES MAX - an alternative version of the game
15 MINUTES MAX game board
*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.
This is an easy to play 30 minute dice game to practice French FAIRE EXPRESSIONS.
My high school students love this game, and it can get very competitive if you decide to play it as a race (details are explained with the activity).
Students divide up into teams and play a dice game, the dice determining which subject and infinitive to conjugate.
Included with this activity:
How to play
5 different versions of the game
Student response and score sheet
This dice game is an especially fun way to practice while learning about the irregular French verb FAIRE. More advanced students also benefit from the review.
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This is a really fun game to practice with your students who are learning vocabulary about LA NOURRITURE, 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. 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 32 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.
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.
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 PROFESSIONS theme version of the game there 30 French-English cards. A French only version is also included for immersion classrooms. There are 2 fun ways to play this fun vocabulary game and both are explained in the instructions.
This French 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 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.
✯ The movies - ESL - ELL 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 MOVIES version of the game there are 35 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)
35 Taboo game cards to print, laminate, cut out and hook together with a ring
Black and white and grayscale copies are included
PDF for projecting one card at a time for a whole class activity
How to play 15 MINUTES MAX - an alternative version of the game
15 MINUTES MAX game board
**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 Verb Etre Present Tense Unit - 4 Printable Worksheets
This present tense unit on the verb être in the present tense includes four worksheets with answer keys. Conjugating and using this crucial French verb takes a lot of practice, and this resource provides many different ways to do that.
4 Worksheets:
Conjugate and fill in the blanks in sentences
Differentiate between the verbs être and avoir in the present tense
Fill in the blanks using être in two texts
Write 9 original sentences using être in the present tense
Playing TABOO while learning French ALLER expressions 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.
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.
This French Aller Expressions Taboo game includes the following:
32 Taboo game cards to print, cut out and laminate if possible (see preview)
Color and black and white versions included
How to play
Aller expressions list with images
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