Practice at Home:
Dear Parents,
In French we have learned the names of certain classroom objects and several different prepositions. I
am sending home some flashcards to help your child practise these names at home. Please refer to the
vocabulary list for reference and please use the following games to help review these words at home.
Vocabulary List:
masculin words:
un crayon
un stylo
un taille-crayon
un pupitre
un cahier
un livre
un garçon
des ciseaux
a pencil
a pen
a pencil sharpener
a desk
a workbook
a book
a boy
scissors
féminine words
la colle
une gomme
une règle
une feuille de papier
une table
une chaise
une porte
une fille
the glue
an eraser
a ruler
a piece of paper
a table
a chair
a door
a girl
prépositions
sur
sous
dans
devant
derrière
à côté de
on
under
in
in front
behind
beside
verbe
Mets
Put
Review Games:
Cut apart the flashcards to play the following games:
1.
Flashcards
• Use the cards as straight forward flashcards—where you have your child look at the picture and say
the French word, or have them say the English word for the French word on the flashcards.
2. Memory
• Flip the picture and word cards upside down. Flip over two cards at a time and try to find a match.
3. Go fish/Va pêcher
• Use the picture cards and their matching word and the French words for prepositions and their
matching English word cards in this game. Each person starts with 5 cards. Try to find the match to
the cards in your hand by asking the other players for that card. Ask for the card in French—example:
I have the picture card of a pencil in my hand and I ask for UN CRAYON from another player; I have the
word BESIDE in my hand so I ask for À CÔTÉ DE from another player. If the other player does not
have the requested card, pick a card up from the pile (go fish). If you match all the cards in your hand
and there are still cards in the pile, select 3 more cards from the pile and continue playing until all the
cards have been matched. The player with the most matches wins.
4. Follow the directions/Make the directions
• Use the picture cards or word cards to follow the directions written on the direction cards.
• Use the flashcard METS and the word cards of the classroom objects and of the prepositions to
create directions. Then have your child follow your directions using the picture cards. example: Your
direction:
METS
LA COLLE
SOUS
LA CHAISE
--your child would then put the picture card of la colle under the picture card of la chaise. Have your
child create directions for you to follow with the picture cards.
•
***Switch it up by using the picture cards to give the directions and using the classroom objects word
cards to follow the directions.***
Give your child two classroom object picture/word cards. Hold up a preposition French word card and
have your child position his/her two object cards according to the preposition you selected.
5. Mix it up and Race to Match
• Put the cards face up and mixed up in a pile. The race is to try to match all the cards correctly. Time
your child and record the time. Have your child try to beat his/her time.
6. Which Preposition?
• Use two picture cards or two classroom object cards for this game. Give your child the French word
cards for the prepositions. Use the two picture (or word cards) to practice the different prepositions
by positioning the cards in a certain way (example: you select the picture/word card for un crayon and
un stylo. You place the cards BESIDE each other. Your child should then select the French word for
BESIDE—À CÔTÉ DE).
Thank you for your help by practising at home.
Madame Schouten
Mets le crayon SUR la chaise.
Mets les ciseaux À CÔTÉ DE la feuille de
papier.
Mets le taille crayon SOUS la table.
Mets la colle DANS le pupitre.
Mets le cahier DERRIÈRE le livre.
Mets le stylo DEVANT la règle.
Mets la feuille de papier À CÔTÉ DE la porte.
Mets le garçon DEVANT la fille.
Mets la règle DERRIÈRE la fille.
Mets le livre SUR le garçon.
une fille
un garçon
un crayon
une gomme
des ciseaux
un stylo
une règle
un cahier
un livre
une table
un taille-crayon
une chaise
un pupitre
une feuille de papier
la colle
une porte
sur
on
sous
under
dans
in
devant
in front
derrière
behind
à côté de
beside
Mets
Put