French Communication Teacher Resources

Allo? Qui est-ce? Hone the listening skills of your Francophiles by simulating telephone conversations. After reviewing basic french telephone expressions (some are included here), they conduct two conversations per day for one week. A...

Welcome to the café! Introduce beginning French speakers to food-related vocabulary and using the conditional tense to place an order. This plan gets your kids up and moving. They look at French menus, identify quantity expressions (like...

Match the French word or phrase on the left to its English counterpart on the right. This online worksheet provides practice for those learning French. Title claims it assesses the allez and venir verb forms, but vocabulary items are...

Oú est la cuisine? Several activities are suggested here to develop and further vocabulary acquisition for your beginning French speakers. They draw pictures of different rooms in a house and place objects around the room. Then, using...

Bonjour! Teach your class this basic greetings and much more with a unit of materials. Included here are lessons, vocabulary practice materials and activities, conversation practice handouts, word puzzles, and more to support your class...

Eleventh and twelfth graders research and create language-immersion Web-based presentations. They choose a particular theme (family, travel, etc.) to create a webpage on the Internet. They are given a rubric to check their grammar and...

Work a few of these activities into your unit on jobs and professions for beginning French speakers. This teacher's guide focuses on feminine and masculine word endings, and introduces the teacher to different opportunities for oral...

Note: This is the teacher's guide to Pimsleur's French lesson plan called "Describe & Compare." The guide discusses the lesson plan's purpose, objectives, and designed learning outcomes. It presents information on each of the...

Here's the teacher guide to a unit on family and family vocabulary. Sift through the ideas (a pre-test, instructional activity activity, and closing activity are all included), and include them in your own unit. Since visual connections...

Students describe their family in their new language French. They use adjectives, and proper gender. Then they describe how the family is alike and different.

How many different hobbies can you name in French? Using this question, French classes are asked to list as many hobbies as they can. Although the activities themselves are not included in this teacher guide, you could create them...

Pupils explore Cameroonian culture. For this French lesson, students participate in activities that require them to discover the ties between Cameroonian culture and French culture.

In this French instructional activity, students match the phrase with its translation in the other column for 15 questions. The answers are obtained by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.

In this foreign language worksheet, learners match the French word with its selected meaning found on the right side of the sheet.

Young scholars write and illustrate their own graphic novels. In this George Washington instructional activity, students collaborate to research Washington's life as surveyor, his involvement in the French and Indian War as well as the...

Explore a short piece of French literature with intermediate French scholars. Either assign readers to each character, or divide the class into groups to give the story some life. There's a student task sheet included as well, although...

Pupils practice their communication skills with people from other cultures. Using predetermined questions, they email their penpal and wait for their responses. They reflect on the value of the information given to them and complete an...

The lesson begins with direct instruction: how and when do we use avoir and être to form the past tense? After identifying the verbs that use either avoir or être, French learners write about five things they did the week prior. Then, in...

There are so many key vocabulary terms to know for French food! Use this list as a basis, and pair it with some fun activities to get your class moving. You could print off pictures to correspond with each vocabulary word and have...

Learners in advanced French classes examine the French resistance during world War II. They discover what it was like living in an occupied country while increasing their vocabulary skills and applying the conditional verb tense....

In this foreign language worksheet, students match the classroom objects with the language translation in the right column for the 14 questions.

Young elementary students create an expense budget for a meal at a restaurant. They learn the basic communication and etiquette skills needed to successfully go on a field trip to implement the budgets they created.

Elementary and middle schoolers explore the world of secret writing, otherwise known as cryptography. After an interesting introduction to the activity, learners utilize a decoder badge which uses the St. Cyr cipher - which is a cipher...

Before presenting the material to your classes, review different constructions of the conditional tense. This teacher's guide provides several examples and role-play opportunities with your class. Dialogue to build familiarity with the...