If you're a French teacher, I bet you've have had the same struggle with la communication orale as almost every other French teacher I've spoken to. It is important to have a bunch of fun ways to teach French to your students! Getting your students to speak in French! Getting...
Practicing La Communication Orale With Your Small Groups
Fun fact - when I started teaching, small groups were still pretty new with my board and at my school. I used them for guided reading starting in my second year, but I didn't really realize or consider how they could be used for other things too. Like math or......
How to Encourage Your Students to Speak French Among Friends
Last spring, I shared an idea for encouraging your students to speak French on the blog. It shared an idea for your students to do individually (you can check out the post HERE). In that post, I mentioned that I do a variety of things all throughout the year. I...
How to use Bingo + Pokémon to Encourage Your Students to Speak More French
One huge struggle I hear over and over from my fellow French teachers is how it's impossible to get our students to speak French. Teachers have told me it's challenging (and overwhelming!) to convince their students that to learn French, they need to actually speak it... and, sometimes, to...
Communication Orale Practice in Maternelle: the “How Are You?” Circle
I'm not sure if you can relate, but sometimes I feel like half the battle in maternelle is just getting the day started on the right foot. If I can get my students calm, happy, and speaking French right from the get-go, we generally have a calm, happy, French-filled day....
How to Get Your Students to Speak More French (using puppets & big books)
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. As teachers, we have SO MUCH to do. So many things to juggle, so many outcomes to cover in fun &...
3 façons de s’assurer que les élèves parlent français TOUS LES JOURS!
We all know that in order to learn a second language, our students must SPEAK that second language. Makes sense, right? You learn to speak by speaking! This means that it is SO, SO important to maximize the amount of time that all of your students are speaking - not just one...
Le meilleur jeu de communication orale
Happy long weekend! I can never quite believe it when this weekend rolls around, because it means that we are in the home stretch. The last "break" before the end of the school year! I love the extra day off, but I also panic a bit, because I am always...