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French Connect 4 – Être Aller Avoir Faire Game

Present-tense conjugations of the four irregular French verbs être, aller, avoir, and faire are practiced through a Connect-4-style partner game, with players filling in a grid of verb boxes and a complete answer key for self-checking.
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Grades 6–9, Middle School, High School
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Updated Feb 19, 2024

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Foreign Languages, French
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French games, cooperative learning games
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This educational game immerses French students in présent tense verb conjugation practice. Students fill in the Connect 4 grid by correctly conjugating the high-frequency verbs être, aller, avoir, and faire, listed at the bottom. To win, they must fill in four connected boxes accurately. With each turn, players check pronoun-verb agreement while reinforcing the targeted grammatical concepts. The self-checking answer key allows independent or peer-based self-assessment. This versatile resource works for individual, small group, or whole class review. The board game format and friendly competition make learning présent tense verbs enjoyable. With multiple rounds, learners gain repetitive exposure to high-utility verbs. This concise, interactive game is easy to implement and suitable for beginning French learners.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Students can correctly conjugate être, aller, avoir, and faire in the present tense across all eight subject pronouns (je, tu, il, elle, nous, vous, ils, elles).

  • Students can self-check and correct their own conjugations using the provided answer key.

Teaching tips

  • Have students play in pairs, with the youngest player starting, as described in the included instructions, to keep gameplay self-directed and low-prep.

  • Keep the answer key visible or accessible at each pair's table so students can verify a completed row before claiming a win.

  • Because the board only requires writing the correct verb form and no new vocabulary, this game works well as a quick warm-up or review activity once the four target verbs have already been introduced.

Skills covered

  • Present-tense verb conjugation — producing the correct form of être, aller, avoir, and faire for a given subject pronoun.

  • Pronoun-verb agreement — matching each of the eight French subject pronouns to its correct conjugated verb form.

  • Self-assessment — using an answer key to verify and correct conjugation errors during gameplay.

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How does a round of the game work?

Two students take turns filling in boxes on the grid with the correctly conjugated verb form for the pronoun and verb listed, starting from the bottom row and moving upward, until one player connects four correct boxes in a row.

Which verbs and pronouns are covered?

The board covers all eight French subject pronouns (je, tu, il, elle, nous, vous, ils, elles) conjugated across the four irregular verbs être, aller, avoir, and faire.

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Core concepts

  • present tense conjugation

  • irregular French verbs

  • subject pronouns

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