Les prépositions - French prepositions of place - Prépositions de lieu Posters
French Question Word - Les mots interrogatifs - Board Game Common questions
Noël - French Christmas Activity - Conjugate ER Verbs - Connect Four in a row
Ma famille - French Family Project
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Spanish -AR verbs Practice
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French clothing unit catalog project
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ER, IR, RE French Verbs - Game
Here are the classroom decorations, posters, word wall resources on the HoustonFrenchTeacher TPT store:
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Les mots interrogatifs - Game
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Spanish Teaching Resources
My wonderful Spanish partner teacher is also sharing her knowledge and resources on this website. Here are the Spanish resources on the HoustonFrenchTeacher TPT store:
French Subject Pronouns Posters
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Printables / Worksheets for Foreign Language
End of Year French Tasting
We had a lot of fun during the end of year tasting. To reward my students, we did a French tasting/cultural party. I brought mostly the French items, some students brought some as well, and some others brought some food from Mexico and Sri Lanka! They enjoyed themselves and it was their first time tasting some French food!
AboutMe
I believe that if I teach something that I am bored myself, I cannot imagine how it would feel for the kids. I love variety in my teaching and I am all for the model of "10-90", the teacher does the instruction for 10% of the class and the rest is all students doing the work for the 90%. Using this model, my students have progressed very fast. Even my 6th graders, who are learning French for the first time, can read, write, speak and listen proficiently at the end of the year. I use the IPA (Integrative Performance Assessment) exams to assess them in all 4 proficiencies.
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VideoLessonsForeignLanguage
Learning a foreign language with videos or songs is just a must. Not only students can take a mental break from the daily grind of worksheets (in any classes), but they actually enjoy the interactivity of the videos! I also love to use videos by incorporating them in a flip classroom. I have homework assigned to the videos. I enjoyed making the videos specifically tailored for my students if they need to review for a specific unit exam. I hope you enjoy the following videos as much as my students do. I will create more videos and add them on my youtube channel. New Series - French Stories with wisdom reflections - Les perles de sagesse.
Levels: French Level 1.
Topics: Asking for nationality, describing people, expressing what you would like, present tense of regular -ER verbs, expressing likes/dislikes, present tense of verb to be. Type of learning: Video, story learning, comic strip format learning. Materials: Video + Handout with vocabulary review, differentiated reading comprehension (3 versions) + Reflections on the moral of the story.Video: Link Handout: Link
ProjectsForeignLanguage
I love using French projects at the end of each unit/theme to assess my students. It's also a fun way for them to get creative and be able to learn through real life scenario.
Here are the project based learning resources on the HoustonFrenchTeacher TPT store: ===============================================
Criterias for the project:
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* avoir + age
* être and descriptive adjectives (with agreement)
* verb aller and faire
* family vocabulary
* possessive adjectives
* verbs of preference in sentences (aimer, préférer, adorer, détester)
* sentence structure in the affirmative and negative
It's a ready for use project. Teachers can just print the project requirement page, rubrics and the templates for their online store. The final product is a booklet catalog
Students can draw their own illustrations, use cut-outs from magazine or use the included clip-arts.
This is a ready for use project. Teachers can just print the project requirement page, rubrics and the 21 slides templates where students can draw their daily routines and write the corresponding French sentences. This project can be used in a multiple ways/options, students can just follow the scope and use their imagination to create the project. Students examples and videos are included for demonstration. Students will first introduce, describe themselves then talk about their daily routines (morning, daytime, after school, night and week-end). Students will have to use reflexive verbs and also incorporate transition words. Teachers can use this project for either present or passé compose tense.
Video of student's example 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lpsc-52a7s&t=5s
Video of student's example 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atyxnPGBgRA&t=16s
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Faire les courses - French Grocery Shopping French Food La Nourriture PROJET
Students will practice their vocabulary on Grocery shopping by creating this fun project where students are in Paris for vacation and they are to visit all the different specialty stores! Their job is to write about the different products they find in each specialty store using the correct some, quantifiers etc...
It's a ready for use project. Teachers can just print the project requirement page, rubrics and the templates.
Practice on vocabulary:
* La boulangerie/patisserie
* La boucherie/charcuterie
* La poissonnerie
* Le marchand de fruits et legumes
* La crèmerie
* L’épicerie
Practice on structure:
* transition word (D’abord, ensuite, après, plus tard, finalement …) + verb Aller.
* verb Vendre and the correct SOME: du, de la, de l’, des).
* verb Acheter and the quantifiers: beaucoup de/un peu de/trop de, assez de …
* verb Acheter and the appropriate quantities depending on the product you are buying:
une tranche de,
Un kilo de,
Un morceau de,
Un gramme de,
Un litre de,
une livre de,
Une brique de,
Un paquet de,
Une bouteille de,
Une pièce,
Une boîte de,
Une barquette de,
Un pot de,
Une douzaine de
If you are looking for something fun and productive during Halloween, this will be a perfect mini project for the class. Students will be creating a foldable by pretending to detail what their favorite Halloween characters likes or dislikes. Students will draw 8 characters with the activities and will need to write 16 sentences.
In this project, students will:
* learn the French Halloween vocabulary
* practice the activities/hobbies in French
* practice "Aimer" and negative form of "Aimer" (n'aime pas)
For advanced levels, students can expand by explaining why the characters like certain activities (incorporating "parce que …")
The final project is actually quite fun to read, especially for level 2 students when they come up with the reasons.
Pays Francophones - FRANCOPHONIE (French Speaking Countries) Distance Learning
Pays Francophones - FRANCOPHONIE (French Speaking Countries) Distance Learning & Printable - PROJET -INFOGRAPHIC
FRENCH DISTANCE LEARNING PROJECT AND PRINTABLE for any PLATFORM (Google Classroom™ Distance Learning, Microsoft Teams™ Distance Learning, compatible to any learning system platform! And fully Editable! There is a file version for Google Classroom™ and one file version for all other learning management systems!
If you are looking for resources that are compatible for any learning management system, here is a French Project on La Francophonie, French Speaking Countries - for print and distance learning. Need some nice visuals for your classroom, every year, I love to hang those around my class! The completion of this project is beautiful!
Having to move from Google Classroom to Microsoft Teams, I told myself that I need resources that will be compatible for any platforms.
As a teacher, we have already so many things on our plate and I truly do not like to replicate my work unnecessarily. So during Spring, as I was working with my classes and coming up with new digital resources, I decided this time to create a new product line where I can always use my resources no matter what school district I end up working with. I also needed a digital resource that can be self-assessed, without needing me to spend more time to grade! And I do not want to pay extra money or a yearly fee to be able to use any other apps.
My ultimate and primary goal has to always make sure that my students are engaged and have fun while learning/practicing their materials. So I hope your students will enjoy my new product line: Magic Picture as much as my kiddos. This was their most favorite activity because they were super eager to discover the hidden picture while solving their problems!
French Activities By Seasons
>> FRENCH MARDI GRAS
Here is the link to all the French Mardi Gras resources on the HoustonFrenchTeacher TPT Store.
>> LA SAINT-PATRICK (French Saint-Patrick) Here is the link to all the French Saint Patrick (La Saint-Patrick) resources on the HoustonFrenchTeacher TPT Store.
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