❖ 30 French speaking prompt question cards - La Rentrée Scolaire - Back to School ❖ Want your secondary French students to practice speaking after a long summer holiday? These cards are a fun way to talk about back to school - la rentrée scolaire. This low prep activity is a fun way to encourage your students to speak more and engage in conversation. It is a perfect resource to use in immersion, core or homeschool curriculums. These questions will spark lively conversation amongst your intermediate to advanced level students. You can use these cards after teaching specific vocabulary and grammar for la rentrée or as a fun interactive activity on a day when you want to just focus on speaking and reviewing vocabulary in a different way. Read on to find out the many ways I like to use these cards. Just 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. Prefer a paperless option? Just project the PDF version for a whole class activity or have your students use their tablets to work individually, in pairs, or in small groups. Included: ➱ 30 speaking prompt cards (4 per page to print and cut out) ➱ PDF version to project and avoid printing (1 card per page to project) ➱ 9 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. ✫ 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.

✯ 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 skit about vacation - Mini-dialogue au futur simple - Les vacances One page French dialogue between two people talking about the les vacances. Short skits or dialogues like this one show students how to use the futur simple in meaningful context. Verbs written in the futur simple are in bold print. The length is just right so that it isn’t overwhelming while practicing speaking for fluency and listening comprehension. Some students may enjoy performing this dialogue as a skit in front of the class! New words and expressions can easily be looked up for meaning. Everything is in French, so this resource is perfect for traditional French classrooms as well as immersion. The vocabulary and grammar used in this skit is at an intermediate / high intermediate level. 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 skit about the beach - Mini-dialogue au futur simple - La plage One page French dialogue between two people talking about the la plage. Short skits or dialogues like this one show students how to use the futur simple in meaningful context. Verbs written in the futur simple are in bold print. The length is just right so that it isn’t overwhelming while practicing speaking for fluency and listening comprehension. Some students may enjoy performing this dialogue as a skit in front of the class! New words and expressions can easily be looked up for meaning. Everything is in French, so this resource is perfect for traditional French classrooms as well as immersion. The vocabulary and grammar used in this skit is at an intermediate / high intermediate level. 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 skit about weather - Mini-dialogue au futur simple - La météo One page French dialogue between two people talking about the weather / la météo. Short skits or dialogues like this one show students how to use the futur simple in meaningful context. Verbs written in the futur simple are in bold print. The length is just right so that it isn’t overwhelming while practicing speaking for fluency and listening comprehension. Some students may enjoy performing this dialogue as a skit in front of the class! New words and expressions can easily be looked up for meaning. Everything is in French, so this resource is perfect for traditional French classrooms as well as immersion. The vocabulary and grammar used in this skit is at an intermediate / high intermediate level. 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 skit about cinema - Mini-dialogue au futur simple - Le cinéma One page French dialogue between two people talking about the le cinéma. Short skits or dialogues like this one show students how to use the futur simple in meaningful context. Verbs written in the futur simple are in bold print. The length is just right so that it isn’t overwhelming while practicing speaking for fluency and listening comprehension. Some students may enjoy performing this dialogue as a skit in front of the class! New words and expressions can easily be looked up for meaning. Everything is in French, so this resource is perfect for traditional French classrooms as well as immersion. The vocabulary and grammar used in this skit is at an intermediate / high intermediate level. 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.