French as a Second Language Resources
I have been teaching French as a Second Language for nearly 10 years. I hope this store provides you with fun and new ways to teach your students!
Featured resources
Community Unit (en ville/ communauté) - French/FSL
This is a complete unit to teach community places, directions and the grammar concepts for à and de prepositions.
This could be one large unit, or broken into two separate units. I like to teacher the first half to grade 5, and the last half to grade 7. It involves many opportunities for students to be actively engaged, and speaking, as well as learning through play.
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Perfect for the 2013 Revised FSL Ontario Curriculum.
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Includes:
- At least 23 days of day-to-day unit planning
- Tips and Ideas for technology integration
- Vocabulary pages
- Crossword with answer key
- "5 a day" questions to match the unit
- Multiple tests and quizzes
- Games- including snakes and ladders with community words, race cards, puzzle arranging
- Several worksheets to reinforce the verb aller, and de/ à prepositions
- Access information to my classroom website to see the materials being used in the classroom and complimentary resources I have found for this unit.
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Consider purchasing the following games to supplement the unit.
These Games are great additions to the unit, and will last for years to come. Perfect for centres!
COMMUNITY BINGO
SPOT IT CARD GAME - COMMUNITY
TES PICKS
Maison/ House Complete Unit
Use this unit to teach your students about the rooms and furniture in a house, prepositions and common ER verbs.
This unit allows for many fun opportunities for students to be actively engaged and working collaboratively. Very Large Unit (80 pages) has everything you need. Just print and copy and you are ready to go!
Includes:
Many worksheets on:
Labelling houses
Matching furniture to rooms
Prepositions and room locations
Common ER verbs
Listening and Speaking activities
Reading and Writing activities
Detailed Day-to-Day Unit plans for at least 25 classes (50 mins)
Vocabulary page
5 a day questions to go with unit
Board Game - Snakes and Ladders theme
Crossword, Word search,
Maze and Unscramble
Unit Quizzes and Tests
Flash cards with pictures
Ideas/Sites for Technology Integration
4 Day Project with Rubric, booklet template and note for parents
Access information to my classroom website to see the materials being used in the classroom and complimentary resources I have found for this unit.
All worksheets and Tests include answer keys.
Use this Powerpoint to introduce the vocabulary in a fun and interactive way!
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Perfect for the 2013 Revised FSL Ontario Curriculum.
Lots of opportunities to assess Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing
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TES PICKS
à l'école booklet
Great booklet for teaching French as a second language.
This mini unit consists of 42 pages.
It includes the following:
- unit vocabulary page
- sorting page by masc/fem/plural
- unit word search
-double word scramble
- unit vocabulary matching quiz
- match students to their backpacks activity (Reading comprehension)
- What's in Rosie's backpack activity - (Reading comprehension)
- Snakes and Ladders game with school supplies and game ideas
- Where's Waldo style activity page for students to practice new vocab
- Corner to Corner word maze
- Listening Comprehension quiz
- Two cute activities to teach and practice prepositions with school supplies
- 5 different draw what you read activities
- Partner activity focusing on listening and speaking
-Race Cards (J'ai, Qui a?)
-Answer Keys to all activities
- BONUS - School Supplies with Prepositions activity ** sold separately on my site as well **
Au Restaurant - French Unit
This unit is great for Junior/Intermediate Core French as a Second Language class. It is a restaurant unit that includes listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. It also has technology integration activities and ideas.
There is a lesson plan guide that is included and all worksheets are organized and labelled to correspond with the daily lesson plan.
There are daily activities, a vocabulary quiz, a unit test and a final project and rubrics too. Answer keys are provided at the end of the unit.
Included in the unit: (*answer sheets included)
-50 Flashcards and word cards
-Class game J’ai… qui a…
- Vocabulary list* , sheet for students on IEP
Word search*
Daily questions speaking activity
Decode page/ Unscramble page*
Que penses-tu? writing activity
Que préféres-tu? speaking activity
Le menu du jour / J’ai faim* –vocabulary writing practice
Le verbe PRENDRE*
La salle a manger café / À la carte-reading comprehension
Commander au restaurant* -reading comprehension
Au restaurant-listening activity with You tube reference
Chez Aiello script / Sequencing worksheet*, a sheet for students on an IEP
QR Code Scavenger Hunt –reading/writing activity
Que commandent-ils?*/Ca coute combien?* reading comprehension
Commander au restaurant/Décris la scène
Unit Test-reading, writing
Final Project – Make a menu with rubric
Skit idea and rubric.
French Pets unit - Les animaux de compagnie
French Pets unit great for immersion or FSL classrooms.
This unit has activities for all four strands of the new French curriculum.
- Vocabulary page
- Puzzles/ word search
- J'ai, Qui a
- Board game (vocabulary based)
- Test and quizzes for all strands
- Foldable booklet and blank template
- technology links
- Draw what you read
- Presenting project
- oral activities
- worksheets to practice numbers and avoir and much more.
TES PICKS
Paris - French Culture using a Virtual Field Trip
This unit focuses on le futur proche, and travelling around Paris.
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This unit will allow students to explore the beautiful city of Paris using web quests, projects, and research assignments. Technology is needed for some components, but not all. Great for teaching French culture and le future proche to intermediate FSL students.
Included in the unit is 52 pages of:
20 daily lesson plans
vocabulary pages
5 par jour questions to go along with the unit
Several web quests in French and English (Louvre, Eiffel Tower, France)
Crossword and Word Maze
"J'ai Qui a" Race card game
Student passport template
Quizzes with answer Keys
Several Worksheets on le futur proche
Oral speaking templates and rubrics
4 day Final unit project
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Perfect for the 2013 Revised FSL Ontario Curriculum.
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TES PICKS
Community Unit (en ville/ communauté) - French/FSL
This is a complete unit to teach community places, directions and the grammar concepts for à and de prepositions.
This could be one large unit, or broken into two separate units. I like to teacher the first half to grade 5, and the last half to grade 7. It involves many opportunities for students to be actively engaged, and speaking, as well as learning through play.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Perfect for the 2013 Revised FSL Ontario Curriculum.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Includes:
- At least 23 days of day-to-day unit planning
- Tips and Ideas for technology integration
- Vocabulary pages
- Crossword with answer key
- "5 a day" questions to match the unit
- Multiple tests and quizzes
- Games- including snakes and ladders with community words, race cards, puzzle arranging
- Several worksheets to reinforce the verb aller, and de/ à prepositions
- Access information to my classroom website to see the materials being used in the classroom and complimentary resources I have found for this unit.
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Consider purchasing the following games to supplement the unit.
These Games are great additions to the unit, and will last for years to come. Perfect for centres!
COMMUNITY BINGO
SPOT IT CARD GAME - COMMUNITY
TES PICKS
Maison/ House Complete Unit
Use this unit to teach your students about the rooms and furniture in a house, prepositions and common ER verbs.
This unit allows for many fun opportunities for students to be actively engaged and working collaboratively. Very Large Unit (80 pages) has everything you need. Just print and copy and you are ready to go!
Includes:
Many worksheets on:
Labelling houses
Matching furniture to rooms
Prepositions and room locations
Common ER verbs
Listening and Speaking activities
Reading and Writing activities
Detailed Day-to-Day Unit plans for at least 25 classes (50 mins)
Vocabulary page
5 a day questions to go with unit
Board Game - Snakes and Ladders theme
Crossword, Word search,
Maze and Unscramble
Unit Quizzes and Tests
Flash cards with pictures
Ideas/Sites for Technology Integration
4 Day Project with Rubric, booklet template and note for parents
Access information to my classroom website to see the materials being used in the classroom and complimentary resources I have found for this unit.
All worksheets and Tests include answer keys.
Use this Powerpoint to introduce the vocabulary in a fun and interactive way!
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Perfect for the 2013 Revised FSL Ontario Curriculum.
Lots of opportunities to assess Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing
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Valentine's Day French Booklet - La Saint Valentin (French/FSL)
This 40 page booklet includes the following activities:
3 Reading comprehension activities
1 Read and colour activity
1 Draw and Write activity
14 page Writing booklet
3 journalling activities
1 Word scramble
36 Cards for matching
Matching Quiz
Search and Find fun page
TES PICKS
à l'école booklet
Great booklet for teaching French as a second language.
This mini unit consists of 42 pages.
It includes the following:
- unit vocabulary page
- sorting page by masc/fem/plural
- unit word search
-double word scramble
- unit vocabulary matching quiz
- match students to their backpacks activity (Reading comprehension)
- What's in Rosie's backpack activity - (Reading comprehension)
- Snakes and Ladders game with school supplies and game ideas
- Where's Waldo style activity page for students to practice new vocab
- Corner to Corner word maze
- Listening Comprehension quiz
- Two cute activities to teach and practice prepositions with school supplies
- 5 different draw what you read activities
- Partner activity focusing on listening and speaking
-Race Cards (J'ai, Qui a?)
-Answer Keys to all activities
- BONUS - School Supplies with Prepositions activity ** sold separately on my site as well **
Community map - for practicing directions, mapping skills and foreign languages
This map is great for students to practice directions.
I suggest laminating a bunch and having your students use them to practice directions and prepositions.
Mini dinky cars bought at Dollarama or Walmart will fit on the roads.
Students love driving around on the streets.
Use as a listening mark. - Can students arrive at your location?
Use it as a speaking mark. - Can students explain directions from one place to another?
Great for à + le/la/l'/les
or prepositions and de + le/la/l'/les
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It is a violation of copyright laws to remove the graphics
from this presentation for other uses.
If you wish to use these graphics for yourself,
you can find them by visiting Poppydreamz Digital Art at http://www.poppydreamzdigitalart.blogspot.com
Commander au restaurant
French worksheet to practice ordering in a restaurant.
Includes:
2 page worksheet (Fill in the blanks with word list included)
Answer Key provided
Back to School activities
Great resource for the first week back to school.
Includes:
All about me page (4 versions - grade 1,2,3,4)
Secret Picture using 100s chart
Word search (numbers 1-20)
Trouve quelqu'un qui... bingo
Our classroom rules page
My family page
My summer page
Coloring page using math (1-12)
2 Search and find pictures (l'été and school themed)
All about me banner
Treasure hunt to get to know the class room
French Books Read Aloud - QR Codes
This set includes
16 QR codes for books read aloud with the words provided for students to follow.
10 QR codes for books (5 French, 5 English) read aloud using audio, but do not provide the words for following along.
Great resources for your listening centre and/or 5 au quotidien.
Your students will require an iPad/tablet with a QR scanner.
(I have run the URLS through Safeshare, so there won't be any ads or pop-ups.)
The books have been found online using various sites, and as such could be removed from the internet at any time. Should you find a resource no longer works please contact me so that I can alter the resource.
French WORD WALL - beginner learners
This FRENCH word wall includes over 100 common words used in a primary FI classroom. I have also included blank cards, so you can add your own.
Laminate them and they will last for years to come.
French Word Wall - Stripes and Anchors
This FRENCH word wall includes over 100 common words used in a primary FI classroom. I have also included blank cards, so you can add your own.
Laminate them and they will last for years to come.
French Math Reference Sheet
*** Uses Canadian Money in example ***
Great as a reference tool at the beginning of student workbooks.
French Weekly Words - Activity booklets
Great for Word work, cinq au quotidien, or extra homework practice.
To print in booklet format simply select which pages you'd like and when printing be sure to change the paper handling option to booklet.
This booklet contains 9 weeks of word lists with accompanying activities.
Menu and accompanying ordering activity
Use this menu for your students to practice placing an order at a restaurant.
This also includes an activity where students must place an order totaling $50, and present this to their class mates.
Enfin Te Voila - Back to school activities to accompany the book
These activities go along with Melanie Watt's book "Enfin, te voila!" and are great for the first week of school.
Includes:
Booklet templates for grades 1-3
Mini - foldable booklets
Journal prompts
Guided Reading Log Book
Includes:
Guided reading logs
Guided Reading group page
Good News notes to share reading levels
Class Decor - Geometric
This set is a beautiful geometric pattern. It looks great with blue, turquoise, purple or pink bulletin boards.
Includes:
Calendar cards ( days, months, years, numbers) in FRENCH
Schedule cards
Alphabet cards (great for word walls or for primary rooms)
Basket labels
"J'ai fini board" (to help fast finishers)
Flag decor
Print these out, laminate and you are good to go for years to come.
French - Ordering at a restaurant
This multiple choice worksheet will help students learn to order various dishes at a restaurant.
French Word Wall
This FRENCH word wall includes over 100 common words used in a primary FI classroom. I have also included blank cards, so you can add your own.
Laminate them and they will last for years to come.