FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES CARDS

FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES KS3 FRENCH KS4 FRENCH GCSE FRENCH KS5 FRENCH ALEVEL FRENCH FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES CARDS ACTIVITIES LES PAYS FRANCOPHONES

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French-speaking countries, capital cities and flags cards provide great learning opportunities for any appropriate age group, at any time of the school year! Students can develop their language skills, as well as their knowledge of both the French-speaking and wider world, in a cooperative, communicative and interactive way, independently of the teacher. There are 40 countries where French is an official language - this makes 40 flag (picture) cards, and 40 country with capital city cards (words), with 4 picture info cards showing the location of each continent where French is spoken, so 84 cards in total.

The flag cards also show on which continent the particular country is located, which really helps students understand the true scope of where French is spoken across the globe - every continent! There are also detachable country, capital city and combined country and capital city labels that students use to label the flags - the labels are definitely a lot of prep, but it’s worth laminating them before you cut them out - labelling is a really popular and successful learning activity, and the labels will last for ever when they’re laminated.

I use the cards in lots of different contexts, not only when we’re focusing on La Francophonie, such as starters, plenaries and back-to-school ‘jump back in’ activities, and with a very broad range of grades and ages. They’re great for introducing and consolidating knowledge about Les Pays Francophones, and they enable students work and learn independently, which my students really like to do. I’ve found that the cards also help my students develop their general understanding of world geography too.

There are lots of games that work really well, and I’ve described several here to get them started. The cards offer multi-skill language learning: spelling, reading, speaking, listening and pronunciation. It’s useful to give students the chance to work with the cards quite regularly - they genuinely enjoy the games, and it’s a good way of really embedding learning. I laminate the cards too, because they’re far easier to work with, and last in great condition for ages too, so definitely worth the extra prep time and expense.

There’s a reference list showing all the countries and capital cities with the corresponding flags, which works well both for this particular resource, but as a forever reference resource too.

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