French Games
Flashcard Games
Using a small set of flashcards (many available from French shelf),
play quick fire memory games:
a) With blu-tack, stick them around the room. Ask children to
bring them to you one by one. Each time a child brings it to
you, they must say the French word it is describing to you, e.g.
days of the week, weather, etc.
b)
Stick all the flashcards on the board, ask the children to close
their eyes. Then remove one card, children to guess which one
is missing.
Number Games
a) Show me! ; Child or teacher to call out a number, rest of the
class to show number using fingers, number fans or
whiteboards.
b) Bingo on whiteboards
c) Write two sets of identical numbers on the board. Divide the
class into two teams. Nominate one player from each team.
Call out a number, the two players run to the board to circle
the number. Winner is the first person back to their
chair/carpet.
d) 21’s – Go round the class, starting at 1, each child saying the
next number in succession. If a child says 2 numbers, e.g. 4
and 5, the direction of play gets reversed, if three numbers,
the next child misses a go. Whoever ends up saying 21 is out.
Younger children could play to 12, etc as they progress with
their numbers.
e) Dice game – One set of dice per pair/group. Each player to
write a list of 5 numbers they have to roll. Players take it in
turns to roll dice, first player to tick of all numbers wins.
f) Oh La La! – Same as fizz buzz game. Go round the class saying
numbers in French in succession. Instead of saying a multiple
of three, player to say oh la la! (double points if combined with
typical French shrug of the shoulders!)
g) Clumps – PE warm up. Call out French number, children to get
into groups of that number.
Backwards Bingo
Good for numbers, but can be used with any set of vocabulary.
Using a set of French words, e.g colours. Every member of the class
chooses one of the words from the set. Whole class stand up.
Pupil/teacher calls out the colours, players sit down if they hear the
colour they were thinking of. When only one colour left, the
remaining player/s to say which colour you have not called. Cheating
is discovered as it is hard to work out which one is left!
Vocabulary
Donnez-moi!
Give me!
Apportez-moi!
Bring me!
Fermez-les-yeux!
Close your eyes!
Ouvrez-les-yeux!
Open your eyes!
Qu’est-ce qui manque?
What’s missing?
Montrez-moi!
Show me!
Tu as gagné!
You’ve won!
le gagnant
the winner (masc)
la gagnante
the winner (fem)
Passez un tour
Miss a turn
Changez la direction
Change direction
le dé – the die
les dés – the dice
lancez les dés
throw the dice
Asseyez-vous!
Sit down!
Ecoutez bien!
Listen well!
une faute
a mistake
Jacques a dit – Simon Says
Jacques a dit..levez-vous – stand up
asseyez – vous – sit down
sautez – jump
marchez - walk
levez-la-main – put your hand up
posez –la-main – put your hand down
fermez-les-yeux- close your eyes
ouvrez-les-yeux – open your eyes
regardez-moi – look at me
touchez - touch
tu as perdu
you’ve lost
Mexican Wave
Works best in table groups to start with.
Send around a mexican wave, each group standing and waving whilst
saying a number, colour, etc.
une vague mexicaine
mexican wave
Show me
Useful for classroom objects, colours, numbers
Pupil/teacher to call out a player and an object they must show
Montrez-moi
Show me
Montrez-moi quelque
chose bleu
Show me something
blue
Montrez-moi deux
crayons
Show me two pencils
Draw me a monster!
Useful for numbers, colours, shape, parts of the body.
Pupil/Teacher to secretly draw a monster on whiteboard/paper.
Giving one instruction at a time, rest of the class to try and draw the
monster. At end, everyone to show their monster and see how similar
it is to the original.
les yeux – eyes
la bouche – mouth
le nez – nose
les oreilles – ears
les bras – arms
les jambes –legs
l’estomac – stomach
les cheveux - hair
dessinez un monstre
draw a monster
il a …….
it has……….
il a cinq yeuxs rouges
it has five red eyes
grand(e) – large
petit(e) –small
rond-round
carré- square
Fruit salad
Players sitting in a circle. Pupil/teacher to go round the circle giving
each person a word, e.g a colour, number,etc. Pupil/teacher calls out a
word, the players who were given that word run around the outside of
the circle and sit back down at their place. Winner is the first back.
salade de fruits
asseyez –vous en cercle
sit in a circle
CA October, 2006