Teaching requires you to think on the spot, be flexible and sometimes fill in spare time!
Here are 5 easy, quick and planning-free games to help review and extend your student’s learning WITH FUN!
1. Lotto! (Bingo!)
Quick review of numbers, vocabulary or word chunks.
Students draw up a grid of 9 squares.
They write any number between a range (e.g. 0-20) or a set of words/chunks that you set. No repeats.
Once all students have their grid full, starts calling out the items in French.
Option - you can write what you say on the board
Once a student has crossed out all 9 squares, they win by yelling out, “LOTTO!”
Practice grammar, question/answer, translations, finish the sentence…
Can be played between students, teacher and students, or as a whole class!
Take, for example, you want to revise switching tenses between the present and past simple.
One student starts by saying, “PING!”, and gives a sentence in the present.
Another student replies by saying, “PONG!”, and provides the same sentence using the past simple.
“PING! Je vais!” > “PONG! Je suis allé!”
3. One word each
Practice forming sentences with a focus on sentence structure and creating form.
Great game for intermediate/advanced students or immersion French classrooms.
Get your students to sit in a circle. Go around the circle and each student says one word adding to the sentence. The goal is to create a very short story.
Usually students get a bit silly and the story gains some repetition. Gives everyone a good laugh!
4. Inside-Outside circle
A game to increase fluency or to review concepts with different partners.
Equal number of students create an inside circle facing out and an outside circle facing in. Each student is therefore looking at a partner.
Ask them to focus on one concept. For example, explaining a grammar concept, answering a question in French, reciting a poem…
To help increase fluency, you can add in the ‘3, 2, 1’ rule. You do this by getting your students to respond to one question first taking 3 minutes, then replying to the same question but in 2 minutes, then once more in 1 minute.
You can also ask them to change partner by getting the outside circle to move across by one spot or more.
5. Story drawing
Review new vocabulary or sentence builders in context and improve listening skills.
Read aloud a description of a picture. Your students draw what they hear.
You can make the task fun by getting them to draw silly sentences. E.g. if studying prepositions - ‘Le chat qui est sur la chaise a une moustache.’
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