French Servir Conjugation – Present Tense Board Game

Students move around a French gameboard by supplying present-tense forms of servir or matching subjects to the printed verb forms.
Grades
Grades 9–12, High School
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2
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Updated Jul 16, 2022

Subject
Foreign Languages, French
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Board games, French
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Games, Activities
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This resource is a French: Servir Conjugation Board Game - Present Tense.

Print the one-page board and read the separate rules sheet. Supply a die for each group and a token for each player.

Students will conjugate servir along the way.

The first one to the finish line wins the game.

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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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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 some subjects recur; other pronouns appear only once on the board.

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.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Verb conjugation

  • Present tense

  • Irregular verbs

  • Subject pronouns

  • French grammar

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