Looking for a fun, engaging way to get your students speaking French and learning new, important thematic vocabulary words? These fun jeux de communication orale are a great way to get all your students speaking, right from the beginning of the year!

These themed classroom chants are easy to do, and easy to prep. Just print, laminate, and cut out the pieces and you are ready to play! I put the vocabulary cards in a basket, and the rest of the display on a piece of chart paper.

How to play:

• Put the vocabulary cards in a basket and make sure the other piece of the game is on display. Sing the poem with your students a few times and review the vocabulary words on the cards.
• Choose a student to come draw the first card. They will say the name of the object on the card. If they don’t know, encourage your other students to help figure it out! I like to then have my whole class repeat the answer in a complete sentence: C’est un.e _________!
• Once everyone knows what the vocabulary word is, your student can put the item on the chart paper (using tape or sticky tack), and the game continues. Repeat the poem and another student can choose a vocabulary card.

You may choose to have one card per student, or just choose a few words to work on at a time.

This resource is a COMPLETE BUNDLE. It includes the following 15 chants:

• Ours, ours (colours + key vocabulary – 40 words total)
• Oiseau, oiseau (alphabet anchor chart words – 28 words total)
• Dans mon sac à dos (school vocabulary – 40 words total)
• Les feuilles d’automne (fall vocabulary – 40 words total)
• Méchante sorcière (Halloween vocabulary – 40 words total)
• Les cadeaux (Christmas vocabulary – 40 words total)
• Les flocons de neige (winter vocabulary – 40 words total)
• Les roses sont rouges (Valentine’s Day vocabulary – 40 words total)
• Comment te sens-tu? (feelings vocabulary – 40 words total + circle time materials)
• Les farfadets (Saint Patrick’s Day vocabulary – 40 words total)
• Il ne fait pas beau! (spring vocabulary – 40 words total)
• Les oeufs de Pâques (Easter vocabulary – 28 words total)
• Notre belle planète (Earth Day vocabulary – 40 words total)
• Il fait chaud (Summer vocabulary – 40 words total)
• Des animaux (animal vocabulary – 48 words total)

Each resource in this bundle includes…

• A simple, catchy poem for your whole class to sing to introduce each round of the game
• 28-48 vocabulary cards (in colour)
• The same 28-48 vocabulary cards in black & white OR a black & white editable option (Ours, ours + Les cadeaux)

This game is wonderful when you have the majority of the class at the carpet ready to get started, but a few stragglers finishing up their work. We start playing, and the stragglers are immediately motivated to get to the carpet as fast as they can!

My students also use the game independently as a literacy centre, once they are experts.

This download entitles the purchaser to use it in ONE classroom only. Thank you so much for respecting my time and effort!