Hobbies And Interests
Rainbow Game
This online game can be played through your Web browser and tests your knowledge of the French words for different colors. Players have to arrange the different colors of the rainbow in order to reveal the hidden picture. By the side of each color is a box; players type the correct number into the box to place that color into the right order.
Simon Says
The traditional game of Simon Says---or "Jacques a dit," as the French call it---can easily be adapted for the classroom, as suggested by the Primary Resources website. You stand at the front of the class and give the commands in French, sometimes beginning with "Jacques a dit" and sometimes not. Through the game, children will learn to memorize different activities and objects in French. For example, you could ask children to stand on one leg, hold up a pencil, sit down or turn around.
Cartoonito Animals
Preschoolers can get a handy start on their French lessons with this online quiz game. Animal pictures appear on each screen; the player must successfully choose the French word which represents the animal shown from the three choices offered. To help out, each French word has a tiny picture of the animal next to it, to give kids a clue. So while the game is hardly too challenging, it will help kids memorize the French words for animals.
Noughts and Crosses
Kids can take part in noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) games to practice their French. To play, you'll need pens and a grid with nine squares, each marked by a number, with the number one square being in the top left-hand corner. Children play the game as usual, with one player picking noughts and the other crosses, and the winner being the first player to make a line of three. The only difference between this and a typical game is that before a player can mark a square on the grid, she must describe what she's doing in the correct French. So to put a cross in the bottom left-hand corner, the player calls out the French for "seven."