French Verb Card Project
Are your high school French students failing to truly learn verb conjugations? Are they relying on technology for a quick conjugation but not internalizing those conjugations? Welcome to my Verb Card Project. I have been doing this project with my French classes since 2005, and it is just as useful today as it was back…
Follow a Francophone YouTuber: Project Idea
Consuming media in the target language is one of the best ways for language students to rapidly move their skills to a more advanced level. When you want to get your French learners (or really any language learners) to a point where they are using the language to learn new information, YouTube is a great…
French Number Games You Can Slot in Anywhere
Getting your middle and high school French students to quickly recall numbers in French can be a challenge. It seems like such a basic thing, but numerals are not words. I mean, yes, we have associated words to them, but the digits themselves are not words. When your students see numerals, their instinct is to…
VINGT-ET-UN!
Do you need a fun, interactive game to get your French students practicing counting in French? Let me introduce you to VINGT-ET-UN! This is a whole class game with no materials needed. You can start playing as soon as you have introduced your French students to numbers 1 to 21, and in no time they…
New Year, New Me, New Website!
Welcome to Mrs. Madame’s Classroom! I have been a secondary French language teacher since 2005 teaching every level from 6th grade to French V and AP. I spent twenty years teaching in the United States. I have lived in France and now live with my family in the Netherlands. I started my Teachers Pay Teachers…