French: Tongue Twisters- Activities
- Grades
- Grades 7–10, High School, Middle School
- Pages
- 26
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- Foreign Languages, French
- Topic
- language activity, speaking
- Resource types
- Activities
- Answer key
- Included
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French: Tongue Twisters- Activities
With this resource, your intermediate students will enjoy practicing their French pronunciation and fluency.
The lesson:
Your students will start by working out what a "Virelangue" is.
They will discover 12 illustrated French Tongue twisters, and be able to hear each of them three times, at different speed, and will have fun trying to repeat after the French native speaker.
They can then move on to completing the range of activities:
-Match up the French to the English
-Write the letter corresponding to the Tongue Twister that you hear
-Fill in the gap with the correct word to complete the Tongue Twister
-Listen and complete the Tongue Twister orally (whole class activity)
-Write the translation in French
-Give the correct French Tongue Twister (pair speaking activity)
The 12 Tongue Twisters:
1. Le ver vert va vers le verre vert
2. Mais pas du tout, dit le tatou
3. La robe rouge de Rosalie est ravissante
4. Une bête noire se baigne dans une baignoire noire
5. Lily lit le livre dans le lit
6. Son chat chante sa chanson
7. Dans ta tente, ta tante t'attend
8. Cinq chiens chassent six chats
9. Trois tortues trottaient sur un trottoir très étroit
10. Pour qui sont ces serpents qui sifflent sur vos têtes
11. Un chasseur sachant chasser doit savoir chasser sans son chien
12. Les chaussettes de l'archiduchesse sont-elles sèches? Archi-sèches!
What is included in the .zip folder:
a PowerPoint presentation of 26 slides + its .pdf version
12 audio files of the Tongue twisters (also embedded in the PPT)
a 2-page worksheet with activities (.pdf and docx versions)
a version of the worksheet with answers (.pdf and .docx versions)
a noughts and crosses game (.pdf version only)
2 audio files for Listening and Speaking activities
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Read two to seven French virelangues aloud with accurate pronunciation, progressing from slow reading to normal pace
Say up to two tongue twisters at normal pace from memory, without written support
Match each of the twelve French tongue twisters to its English translation
Teaching tips
Play each recording three times as the slides direct — the rhythm accelerates with each hearing, so have students repeat after every pass rather than only at the end
Use the difficulty ladder on the objectives slide to differentiate: 'Difficile' asks for two twisters read slowly, 'Le plus difficile' for seven at normal pace including two from memory
Run the whole-class listening completion ('Toute la classe') orally before assigning the written gap-fill, since both use the same sentences at different support levels
Skills covered
French pronunciation — students repeat twelve recorded virelangues after the audio track, played three times each at increasing speed.
Listening discrimination — students write the letter of the tongue twister they hear and later supply missing words by ear.
Reading and translation matching — students pair each French twister with its English translation in a lettered grid.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
How do the audio recordings work with the slides?
Each tongue twister is heard three times, speeding up with each repetition, and students repeat after every hearing to train their pronunciation. Two further tracks drive the listening and speaking tasks later in the lesson.
Is the lesson conducted in French or English?
Instructions, definitions, and discussion prompts are all in French, so students need to be comfortable reading classroom French. English appears only as translations — in the matching task and as prompts for writing the French twisters from memory.
What does the morpions game involve?
It is noughts-and-crosses played in pairs: to place a cross or a circle, the player must first say the tongue twister for that square out loud, ideally without looking back at the earlier activities. The game board provides two rounds per pairing.
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French pronunciation
Tongue twisters (virelangues)
Listening comprehension
French-English translation
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