French: Faire Present Tense Tic Tac Toe Game

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What's inside this resource

Faire Present Tense Tic Tac Toe in French provides educators with six printable Tic Tac Toe games focused on the present tense conjugation of the essential French verb faire, meaning "to do" or "to make". Students reinforce grammar skills and vocabulary by competing to get three in a row, either against one another in pairs or in small groups. The multiple choice format allows for differentiation and formative assessment. Answer keys are included within the PDF file. This versatile resource can be used for independent practice, homework, center work, early finishers, or test prep on the present tense in 7th grade and up. Implement in whole or small group French foreign language classes or in individual learning.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Produce the present-tense form of faire for any of the nine French subject pronouns without a conjugation table in view
Match the three forms that sound alike but differ in writing - fais for je and tu, fait for il, elle and on - to the right subject
Recall the two irregular plural forms faisons and faites, which do not follow the regular -ons and -ez pattern
Move between saying a conjugation aloud and writing it correctly, using the spoken and written versions of the same grid

Teaching tips

Run the spoken version first as a warm-up and keep the written version for the follow-up round; the grids are identical, so a pair who played the spoken game already knows the board and can concentrate on spelling
Hand the completed version to one student as referee rather than giving it to both players, which keeps the game self-checking without exposing the answers mid-round
Squares carrying nous and vous are the ones worth watching: faisons and faites break the pattern learners will have generalised from regular -er verbs
Because each of the six grids shuffles the pronouns differently, the same pair can play several rounds without meeting the same board twice

Skills covered

Present-tense conjugation of faire - a player names or writes the form belonging to the pronoun printed in the square before the square can be claimed.
Subject-pronoun recognition - all nine pronouns are in play, including on and elles, so the learner must decide the person and number before choosing a form.
Distinguishing homophone forms in writing - fais, fait and faits sound alike, and the written version forces the learner to commit the right spelling to the blank.
Recall of irregular forms - faisons and faites appear repeatedly across the grids and cannot be produced by applying the regular present-tense endings.
Turn-taking under a rule - claiming a square depends on a correct answer, so the game gives the conjugation practice a stake rather than repeating a drill.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How do the speak, write and check versions relate to one another?

They are three passes over the same six boards. The first prints the cue (FAIRE) under each pronoun for a spoken answer, the second replaces that cue with a ruled blank for a written one, and the third fills every square with the correct form.

Which subject pronouns turn up in the squares?

All nine - je, tu, il, elle, on, nous, vous, ils and elles - so a single round can call for any present-tense form of faire, and both irregular plurals, faisons and faites, are certain to appear.

Do the six grids use the same arrangement of pronouns?

Each is shuffled differently. The first opens je / ils / elle across the top row, the second opens elle / vous / tu, and the fourth opens on / je / ils, so consecutive rounds land on different squares.