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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 French Saint Valentin Taboo game and have some fun! 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 east to modify and use with beginners and advanced students alike. Have a look at how to play in the preview.
Your students will learn a lot of new and useful vocabulary while preparing for and playing this fun game.
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This is a really fun game to practice with your students who are learning vocabulary about LES VÊTEMENTS, and it involves NO PREP. 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 38 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 le pantalon. Qui a les chaussures? The person who has the card with shoes on it says, J'ai les chaussures. Qui a le costume? 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.
Prendre - Apprendre - Comprendre - Surprendre - Reprendre - Dice Game - 6 Tenses
This easy to play 30 minute dice game is a fun way to practice the irregular French verbs PRENDRE - APPRENDRE - COMPRENDRE - SURPRENDRE - REPRENDRE in 6 different tenses (one game per tense with answer key is provided):
- present tense
- passé composé
- imperfect
- futur simple
- conditional
- present subjunctive
These five verbs are essential and often difficult for students to memorize since they're irregular, so I like to provide many different activities to keep it fun and fresh. You can start using this dice game with your beginner students and continue to use it to review these verbs as you teach new tenses.
My high school students love this dice 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 indicated tense.
Included with this activity:
How to play
Six different versions of the game with answers
Student response and scoring 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.
French Halloween Speaking Activity - 30 French Speaking Prompts
Want your students to have some fun speaking French to each other in October using seasonal HALLOWEEN 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 HALLOWEEN or as a fun interactive activity on a day when you want to just focus on speaking and reviewing in a different way. Read on to find out 9 ways I like to use these cards including the popular SCOOT game. Instructions and recording sheet are included.
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.
When the holidays come around there's nothing else on everyone's mind, but it's a great time to incorporate French Christmas vocabulary into using SI CLAUSES! This is a set of 20 SI CLAUSE task cards that can be used at any level since you can have your students create 1st, 2nd or 3rd conditional SI CLAUSES.
As you see in the previews above, the infinitives to be used on each task card are in infinitive form. You can either instruct students to use a particular type of SI CLAUSE or you can just leave them to use their imagination.
The first part of the SI CLAUSE is provided to inspire creativity on the second part. French Christmas vocabulary is used in this set of task cards and images are provided in case some of the vocabulary is new.
There are 20 task cards to print out, cut and laminate for use year after year. In the upper left corner of each card there is a place to guide you in punching holes so that you can use a ring to hold the cards together.
There are also 20 answer cards provided to include in the stack. They are numbered like the task cards. Given the creative nature of these task cards a whole answer cannot be provided. However, I have written what the first part of the SI CLAUSE should be for 1st, 2nd and 3rd conditional clauses.
Included with this product:
20 French Christmas SI CLAUSE task cards in black and white (20 answer cards included)
20 French Christmas SI CLAUSE task cards in color (20 answer cards included)
Numbered student response sheet (in case you want students to write their answers)
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 future and conditional irregular stems sudoku games - Futur simple et conditionnel
Use these sudoku games to practice French futur simple and conditional irregular stems. 20 versions are included. Students place a verb stem in each empty box so that each row, column and nine box square contains each of the verbs.
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.
La nourriture - 20 no prep printable French sudoku games
Use these sudoku games to practice French food vocabulary. 20 versions are included for a total of 180 different words. Students place a vocabulary word (definite articles included) in each empty box so that each row, column and nine box square contains each of the words for that game. Each game consists of 9 words.
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.
Playing ESL TABOO is a great way to get 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. The them of this TABOO game is DAILY ROUTINE. 32 playing cards are included.
This ESL Taboo game includes the following:
How to play (beginner and advanced levels)
32 Taboo game cards to print, cut out and laminate if possible
*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!
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.
Play this ESL EASTER theme 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.
8 of the 32 cards are religious in nature. If you don't want to or can't include cards of a religious nature in your curriculum you can easily leave them out.
Your students will learn a lot of new and useful vocabulary while preparing for and playing this fun game.
This ESL Easter theme Taboo game includes:
32 different Taboo game cards to create a deck that you can print, laminate, cut out, punch holes in and attach with a key ring for as many sets as you need (black and white + color versions provided).
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.
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.
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 CALENDAR and TIME 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:
40 Taboo game cards to print, cut out and laminate if possible
Color and black and white versions included
How to play, beginner and advanced levels
15 words max game board
15 words max alternative game play instructions
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.
Regular French verbs cootie catchers for conjugation practice - Fortune tellers
Use cootie catchers (fortune tellers) to have students practice regular ER, RE and IR verb conjugations in a fun and different way. Your students already love them, and cootie catchers are the perfect ice breaker activity for back to school or any time of the year.
This file includes 8 different ice breaker cootie catchers. There are three for ER verbs, three for IR verbs, and two for RE verbs. The file also contains 3 blank templates for making your own cootie catchers with verbs of your choice (a perfect activity for test review).
Here’s everything you get:
8 different cootie catchers for a total of 64 verbs
Color and grayscale copies are included
3 blank templates to make your own review games
Instructions on how to fold cootie catchers
✯** Movies vocabulary - 30 ESL - ELL Movies speaking prompt cards** ✯
Want your students to use their MOVIES vocabulary in fun and meaningful conversations? You can use this NO PREP activity year after year as a fun way to encourage your students to speak more to each other about Christmas 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 6th to 12th grade.
You can use these cards after learning specific vocabulary About movies during the 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.
✮ 10 ESL ELL skits - Mini dialogues in English ✮
This is a set of 10 skits that your students can use to practice speaking and reading in English. The theme is food and groceries. Students can rehearse the skits and perform them for the class!
Here are the titles of the skits:
Grocery shopping
The shopping list
At the supermarket
At the cashier
At the bakery
The birthday party
At the butcher shop
Dinner
Breakfast
Movie night
These skits are written in the present, past, and future.
Included
✩ Set of 10 one page skits in English for speaking and reading practice
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.
Qui suis-je? French numbers and math game 51 - 100
This card game will check knowledge of French numbers from 0 to 100. Students also have to know how to subtract and add (plus et moins).
Numbers are critical knowledge in French and this exercise is great to check understanding of numbers and reactivity in French. Students will work on their speed and pronunciation.
Here is an example:
⭐ Je suis égal à 50 (cinquante) - (moins) 1 (un) - Qui suis-je?
⭐ Tu es … 49 (quarante-neuf)!
⭐ Bravo! A toi!
What you get:
⇨ 50 cards in French
⇨ Use cards to have students work in pairs or small groups.
This is an easy to play 30 minute dice game to practice the French verbs: LIRE - DIRE - ÉCRIRE - RIRE - DÉCRIRE - CONDUIRE.
I have included six different versions of this game in six tenses: present, passé composé, imperfect, simple future, conditional and present subjunctive. You can use this game with beginners and advanced students alike. Just choose the tenses you want to work with, et voilà!
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 tense indicated.
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 verbs in the LIRE - DIRE- ÉCRIRE category.
Play this LA SAINT PATRICK French Taboo game and have some fun! 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.
Your students will learn a lot of new and useful vocabulary while preparing for and playing this fun game.
This French Saint Patrick's Day Taboo game includes:
28 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).
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.
This is a really fun game to practice with your students who are learning vocabulary about LA MAISON, and it involves NO PREP. 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.
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
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 LA CHEMINÉE. QUI A LA FENÊTRE? The person who has the card with a window on it says, J'AI LA FENÊTRE. QUI A LES CLÉS? And so the game goes on until the last card is called and that student's card will say, J'AI FINI!
You may also enjoy 30 French Speaking Questions - LA MAISON
https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/30-french-speaking-questions-la-maison-11556057
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.
Fall vocabulary - 30 speaking prompt question cards in English
Want your students to use their AUTUMN and FALL vocabulary in meaningful conversations? This NO PREP activity is a fun way to encourage your students to speak more to each other. This resource is suitable for any curriculum in which English is the language spoken, and will work best for students in 6th to 12th grade.
You can use these cards after learning specific vocabulary for fall 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.
30 ESL past tense speaking questions
ESL past tense speaking prompt cards - Use these cards to get your ESL students speaking in the past tense.This is a NO PREP activity that will prompt your students to speak to each other in the past tense, and they will learn a lot about each other in the process.
This activity is great for all levels since it can be used while teaching the past tense and also as a review for more advanced ESL students.
This set of task cards includes 30 questions, and I've included a PDF of the questions if you just want to print them out rather than using the cards. I've also included a PDF for you to project one card at a time if you want to do a whole class activity.
See the preview to find out my 9 favorite ways to use these cards.
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.
30 ESL past tense speaking questions
La Météo - 30 French speaking prompt question cards - Weather
Want your French students to use their MÉTÉO - WEATHER 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 LA MÉTÉO or as an interactive activity on a day when you want to focus on speaking and reviewing vocabulary in a different way. Read on to find out the ways I like to use these cards including the SCOOT game. Instructions and recording sheet are included .
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.
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)
Different ways to use these cards
Scoot game instructions
Scoot recording sheet
➤ Print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and attach on a ring for small groups
➤ 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.
➤ 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.