Quarante questions

Engage your French learners with this versatile resource featuring 40 icebreaker questions. From PowerPoint presentations to cut-up question cards, this pack offers multiple interactive activity ideas to boost vocabulary, build confidence and foster classroom connections.

What’s included

• FREE printable PDF with 40 question strips, plus teacher notes
• Editable version of the 40 questions strips, plus teacher notes (subscribers only)
• PowerPoint version to display and adapt (subscribers only).

How to use these French icebreaker questions

This resource aims to give students plenty of practice in understanding and answering questions on a range of topics.  This would also make a good ice-breaker resource with a new teaching group. Here are different ways you can use this resource to build students’ vocabulary and confidence and get to know each other:

• PowerPoint presentation: Use slides to teach students how to adapt questions into answers, such as changing "Quel est ton film favori?" to "Mon film favori est …"
• Starter activity: Use one question per lesson, allowing students to practice with a partner before answering in class
• Pair work: Distribute question sheets to pairs, having them ask and answer questions. This can be timed for added engagement
• Question hat: Place cut-up questions in a hat, randomly select a few and have students answer by catching a ball.

Looking for more like this?

Explore more icebreaker and getting to know you activities, or for resources that encourage French speaking practice try:

• French pass the parcel speaking game
• Forming questions: cinema role-plays
• Les vacances

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