Name: French Servir Conjugation – Present Tense Board Game
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

This resource is a French: Servir Conjugation Board Game - Present Tense.

All you have to do is print this 1-page board game.

Students will conjugation verbs along the way.

The first one to the finish line wins the game.

What's included

A one-page black-and-white printable board of 37 numbered squares titled "le verbe servir au présent", with Départ before square 1 and Fin after square 37
Thirty-three squares to answer: some giving a subject pronoun for the player to conjugate, others giving a form for the player to match a subject to
Nine subjects across the board: JE, TU, IL, ELLE, ON, NOUS, VOUS, ILS and ELLES
All six present-tense forms in print: SERS, SERT, SERVONS, SERVEZ and SERVENT
Four instruction squares at 11, 16, 21 and 29: Avance de 5 cases, Rejoue, Recule de 5 cases, Tu perds ton tour
A "How to play" sheet giving the rules, the group size, the equipment to supply, and an English gloss for each French instruction square
A harder finish rule on the same sheet: land directly on the last square and answer it correctly to win

Resource types: Activities, Games

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Conjugate servir in the present tense for any of the nine subjects printed on the board
Recognise the stem change between the singular and plural forms, moving from sers and sert to servons, servez and servent
Supply a subject that agrees with a printed form, choosing between il, elle and on for SERT and between ils and elles for SERVENT
Follow short French game instructions — Avance de 5 cases, Recule de 5 cases, Rejoue, Tu perds ton tour — with no English on the board

Teaching tips

Bring a die for each group and a token for each player; the rules sheet lists both under "Not included"
Groups of two to four are the stated size, so roughly one printed board for every three students covers a class
The board mixes conjugating-from-a-pronoun with matching-a-subject-to-a-form, so a class that has only drilled one direction will need square 2 (____ SERS) modelled once
The singular squares and the plural squares are scattered rather than grouped, which forces the stem change to be recalled rather than read off a pattern
For a longer game, use the exact-landing variant on the rules sheet — the last square must be landed on directly and answered correctly

Skills covered

Conjugating an irregular -ir verb — players produce sers, sert, servons, servez or servent for the pronoun printed on the square they land on.
Handling a stem change — the board prints SERS and SERT alongside SERVONS, SERVEZ and SERVENT, so the difference between the singular and plural stems is visible in one place and has to be applied square by square.
Reasoning backwards from a form — squares such as ____ SERVONS and ____ SERVENT give only the verb, so the player must produce a subject that fits it.
Choosing between subjects that share a form — SERT works with il, elle or on and SERVENT with ils or elles, so each of those squares has more than one right answer.
Reading French instructions in play — four squares direct the turn in French alone, and the player has to act on them without an English prompt.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

What does the board show about the stem of servir?

Both halves of it, side by side. The singular squares print SERS and SERT, while the plural squares print SERVONS, SERVEZ and SERVENT, so the v that appears only in the plural is visible across one board rather than down a conjugation list. Because the two sets are scattered rather than grouped, a player meets the change repeatedly through a single game.

Which subjects appear on the board?

All nine: JE, TU, IL, ELLE, ON, NOUS, VOUS, ILS and ELLES. Several appear more than once — IL at squares 7 and 17, ON at 27 and 32, NOUS at 9 and 25 — so no subject is met only once in a game.

How many of the squares need an answer?

Thirty-three of the thirty-seven. Squares 11, 16, 21 and 29 carry game directions instead — move forward five, play again, move back five, lose a turn — and every other numbered square holds half of a subject-and-verb pair to complete.