French Football World Cup 2026 : Participating Countries and Groups
French Countries, Groups and Nationalities 2026 World Cup: Complete Language Resource Pack
Resource Overview
Engaging comprehensive French language pack themed around the 2026 World Cup. This resource is designed to take students from basic country identification to confident sentence building.
Learning Objectives
• Identify participating countries in French and match them to their English equivalents.
• Recognize and use masculine nationality adjectives (e.g., français, brésilien, saoudien).
• Construct complex sentences using varied verbs (être, faire partie de, composer) and prepositions to describe tournament groups.
• Develop multi-skill proficiency through structured listening, reading and talking tasks.
What’s Included?
This pack contains a variety of scaffolded activities:
Vocabulary & Cognates
Students begin by matching French country names to English, focusing on cognates and near-cognates to build confidence. Countries are logically organized by continent.
Nationalities & Adjectives
A dedicated section for matching masculine adjectives of nationality to their respective countries. A comprehensive reference list of 48 nationalities is provided, covering every participating nation from algérien to uruguayen.
Sentence Builder & Tournament Groups
The sentence builder empowers students to move beyond single words. They will learn to describe which teams are in which group using structures like Le Mexique, l’Afrique du Sud et la Corée du Sud sont dans le groupe A.
Integrated Skills Practice
• Reading: 12 detailed sentences for students to extract information and complete visual group charts.
• Listening: A gap-fill activity designed to test auditory recognition of countries and groups.
• Talking: Structured Q&A prompts eg.L’Angleterre est dans quel groupe? to encourage active classroom participation.


















