Hello, Hola, Bonjour

I am sure you have seen these little matchup games all over Pinterest and Instagram, ( if you haven't yet, some great bloggers also do these match up and they are listed in the links page) which I keep telling myself to laminate but also keep forgetting...
You may be wondering why I have resources for French beginners while I don't really teach it yet. In my realm I do get tutoring gigs and these are what this resource was for. 
I like to have fun, they enjoy it and I am amazed at the retention level every week after just 1 hour.

2-Level Fun match up How to.

1. First you need to do some research as for any type of resource you want to make sure you have a clear idea as to how many vocab words you want to have the kids play with and also if all the vocab is at their level. 

(Here you have french un-conjugated verbs with a complement about                                leisure.)

2. I have now a nice folder full of ico
ns from www.flaticon.com but clearly I didn't have any of those so here we go create a new folder and start searching for icons to fit my purpose.

3. I used www.canva.com although I am sure you can also use Piktochart or powerpoint/ keynote to make those.
The shape creation took a little time, but as for any of the resources you make with Canva you can save the template and reuse for a multitude of topics later. 
 4. For the two level task you want to give yourself the opportunity to separate the picture and verb group first and then after they have played the game on another day you want to cut the remaining indents. 

5. What would be next...
I think I could try changing the picture for a pronoun and have the kids conjugate. or have the same shapes with the conjugated verbs and complement. 

So many possibilities what are your ideas, What topics would you use with these???

Here is a link to the puzzles available on my TPT Store:
French School/ school items : https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Lecole-School-French-match-up-game-4165725

French food Conjugaison / match up https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Puzzle-La-nourriture-et-au-restaurant-4149694

French les loisirs:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Puzzle-La-nourriture-et-au-restaurant-4149694

Review week cont. For the lil' French ones- dice game

Here goes another way to review several topics at once with minimal planing and using ... gamification.

Basic French question dice

There are may template on the web for dice and using my Smartboard software I can customize these in a jiffy. I find tape holds these together much better than glue by the way...

Here is an example of a review of basic french question that students can use in groups of 2/3 and take turn answering rolling and have fun conversing. 

Free on my TPT store:
Dice game French beginners https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Basic-French-question-dice-4165711

Review week

POINT AT vocab visual sheets.

As we wrap up the year and as any of you do too, here is an activity the kids thoroughly enjoyed during their exam review week.

Can you think of ways to use these?

I was thinking of printing ovals and squares and hollowing them to also section off bits of the picture.  I think I'ill try that as a review activity at the end of the first chapter next year!

Battleship- Bataille Navale - Descriptions and verbe Avoir

Here it is my first post,
nothing fancy here but cute and simple and always a joy for the students to play.

Let's practice the verb Avoir - I always find it intriguing that in French and Spanish you have to start with irregular verbs to start expressing yourself!

As all levels are different - I did not include the number of boats and size of boats.
And there is still English here.

Description battleship partner game

In my school, we try for 100%TL so below will be the version I'll be using in September as a review for the kids... Also in the works a visual version without the actual words.

TL only battlehip!