Speaking Resources:
Games for Teaching Primary French by Daniele Bourdais and Sue Finnie:
This resource is highly useful and fun for both the educator and the students. This book gives a list of 20 different, low resources games to play with your students to activity engage them in the learning with out them realizing they're learning. The book is divided into 7 parts: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Numbers, Grammar and playing with sounds, all of these parts have 20 different games with full instructions for educators. This resource can be used in core, extended and immersion. This resource is great for motivating students as they're just playing a game. You can make the game the focus of your lesson or as an activity that goes along with the subject you are focusing on at the moment. Available wherever you get books, link is to Amazon.
This resource is a set of French phonic posters for your classroom that looks to expand your students vocabulary through pictures. Each poster has a carton image and the work for it written with the sounds you pronounce in bold. This resource does cost money but it is a one time purchase.
This resource provides French lessons, games, flash cards, books, children’s songs and worksheets for educators. This allows students to improve their French speakers ability through games and songs which allows children to hear the words spoken, leading to a better understanding of what the language should sound like and the development of vocabulary. However, this resource requires a paid membership.
This resource offers a collection of resources for educators to use in the classrooms. This includes interactive lessons, videos, audio clips and much more. It allows students to explore French culture while working on improving their French speaking ability. This resource is free and will helps your students learn through fun.
5 Easy Ways to Use Comprehensible Input in Your French Class:
This resource was written by a French teacher who has been a French educator for over 10 years and gives other educators tips how to get your students taking in French in the classroom. Anyone who’s spent anytime in a French classroom can tell you that actually getting your students to actively speak French is one of the hardest things to do. These tips allow for new educators to start developing the skills they need to help their students truly understand and speak the language.
French Vocabulary Games to Increase Student Engagement :
This resources has once again been created by a French educator for French educators. This resource provides educators with a number of different games to plan in class and help your students work on speaking French in the classroom but getting them more comfortable with the language and distracting them with games.
5 Easy Ideas for Using Music in French Class:
This resource was written by a French teacher and gives educators tips on how to use Music in the classroom. Music in the classroom is a great way to way to help your students improve their vocabulary and their speaking ability.
This resource is older in comparison to a lot on this list but it was useful 20 years ago and it’s still useful today. Téléfrançais is a French children’s show that teaches students different vocabulary words and grammar. It does this in 9- 10 minute episodes that can be found on YouTube and usually content a song as well. Any French immersion students born between 1998 and 2002 will probably remember this show. It’s fun, colourful and easily accessible and because of that it is perfect for some fun in the classroom. There is just under 30 episodes available on YouTube to be used on the classroom and will help students improve their oral French as well as their comprehension of the language.