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French Speaking Game: similar to J’ai… Qui a…? for oral communication practice

Have you thought about giving a fun twist to a well-know French speaking game?

Which game?

Well, the famous “J’ai… Qui a…?”

If you and your students already enjoy playing it, you’ll love the variations below!

French Speaking Game: similar to J’ai… Qui a…?

We all want our FSL students to improve their oral communication skills, but it’s not always a simple task.

Playing a game will add a fun element to the practice and your kiddos will enjoy it so much more AND they won’t even notice how much work they’re doing.

But before we move on, let’s just to a quick check-up.

Do you and your students already play “J’ai… Qui a…?”

If so, I don’t need to explain it.

If not, here’s a quick description:

Students get cards with two sentences: an affirmative sentence and a question.
One student reads their affirmative sentence then asks the question.
The student who has the answer to the question reads it and then asks their questions, and so on.
Students ask and answer questions according to the cards they’re holding until they read from all the cards.

It would go something like this:

Student 1: J’ai un chien. Qui a un chat?

S2: J’ai un chat. Qui a un poisson?

S3: J’ai un poisson. Qui a un oiseau?

…

This is a great game to get students speaking a lot and working with vocabulary words as well.

A Classic French Speaking Game with a Twist!

J’ai… Qui a…? is a fun game and it’s great for introducing and practicing new words.

However, it can get too repetitive after you’ve played it a million times.

And while “J’ai” is a super important sentence stem, there are many other sentence structures you could reinforce using the same game framework.

That’s what I had in mind when I came up with the French speaking games in this post.

So, instead of using just “J’ai… Qui a…?, students will be using other sentence stems.

For example, to practice vocabulary words for fruits and vegetables, the sentences are “Je mange” and “Qui mange…?”

So it would play like:

– Je mange une pomme. Qui mange une banane?

– Je mange une banane. Qui mange du melon?

– Je mange du melon. Qui mange une fraise?

etc.

I’ve also created a set to practice sentences with French -ER verbs and the cards go like this:

– Je chante tout le temps. Qui dessine un visage?

– Je dessine un visage. Qui patine en hiver?

– Je patine en hiver. Qui joue en silence?

…

I’ve come up with sentences people would actually use in real-life, or at least the structure of sentences they would.

If you want your students to practice words for places in the city, what would be more useful AND more realistically for them to say?

A) “J’ai une école. Qui a un parc?”

B)”Je vais à l’école. Qui va au parc?”

Well, alternative B sounds more like something people might actually say, doesn’t it?

So, that’s the kind of sentence I’ve included in the cards.

You can purchase these games from my TpT store.

Save yourself money by grabbing the bundle, or grab the individual sets if you prefer (find the links to individual sets in the bundle listing).

Each set includes 2 sets of 24 cards in color and B&W. The sentences in both sets is the same, but the order differs. In addition, the second set is slightly more challenging than the first one because students need to complete the answers based on the illustrations.

I’ve also included a “lexique” with the images and words used in each set (see example in image below)