French reading games for kids

12 games to learn French free online @ French games

There are 12 French games designed to be easy and fun to play (and learn from!) with over 100 different topics. These online games are offered as part of a package of French learning activities for beginners which also includes simple French lessons and tests.

The games we currently offer to help your French learning are listed below and include Duck shoot, Pong and Pelmanism.

All our games are free to play and can be used with any of our free French topics. Most of the games are based on matching pictures to written or spoken French vocabulary and short sentences. You should probably complete the lesson for a topic before you play the games so that you can familiarize yourself with the vocabulary for each picture.

Most of the games are self-explanatory but we would like to tell you more about our adventure game, "The beetle and the bee". In this game you use your arrow keys to control a beetle which is trying to collect strawberries whilst avoiding some angry, stinging bees.

The bees take some life each time they sting you, and you must also navigate around lots of obstacles to reach each strawberry which is also moving about. There are 10 screens to complete. Each time you hit a strawberry you have to answer a question in order to keep it... it's a good game for making you forget that you are learning at all!

Hangman is another fun game - you know the format, but you should check out our implementation - we think it is rather nice.

All the games come with an info box (like this one) and a help box that can be accessed using the info and help signs respectively on the far left of the interface.

All our games are available online and are free to use with all our topics - that is over 1000 vital items of French that are at the core of any beginning French course. Our games are accompanied by French lessons and tests to provide a vital free resource for French learners with limited (or no) budget. The details for each game are given on their own pages.

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How to use our French Games

Click on the name of a game to go to that game page with the topic you have selected. On the game page there are instructions on how to play the game in addition to a chance to change the topic you want to play with.

All our French games are quick to play and easy to understand. You need to have seen the language you are going to play with before you play the games, either at school or using our own French lessons. There is help available for all games by clicking the question mark button on the left of the interface.

Four in a row

Win 4 cells in a row by matching the cell's picture to the correct item of vocabulary in the list. A quick game you can work through in a minute - also good for hearing the audio for all the vocabulary in the topic.

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The frog flies

Use your keyboard arrow keys or tap your tablet screen to control the frog and catch the flies. Avoid the birds! Answer the questions to win points - you have 5 seconds only... Scoring is based on speed and the number of correct answers. Fast game, can be paused!

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Duck shoot

Use the catapult to fire balls at the rows of ducks crossing the screen. Answer questions to win extra points.Your final score is based on ducks hit or missed and the number of questions answered correctly. This is not a timed game.

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Sow grow

Test your audio skills by clicking on the right picture for the spoken language - correct answers win sunflowers; the aim of the game is to fill the vase with pretty flowers - high scores leaderboard and bonus points available. Listen carefully!

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Pong

This is our version of the classic early computer game "Breakout" (itself a development of the even earlier "Pong" game - we prefer that name) where a player controls a bar that knocks a ball or puck around the screen.

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The beetle and the bee

Control the beetle with your arrow keys to collect the strawberries and avoid the bees - keep the strawberries by answering the French vocabulary questions. Learning French is suddenly an adventure and each question is vital to the success of the mission...

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Mix and match

A child's playroom needs tidying up - put the picture blocks into the correctly labelled box to score points and clear up the room. Simple game with nice graphics suitable for children as young as 5.

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Cat and mouse

Move the cat with the arrow keys to catch the white mice. Avoid the red balloons but hit the blue balloons.Your final score is based on all of the above plus number of questions answered correctly and the time taken.

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Pelmanism

Match items of vocabulary to the correct picture to clear these cells revealing a large picture previously hidden by that content. Pelmanism is an age old favourite with language teachers and students alike.

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Spelling game

You see a set of pictures - for each picture you are offered 5 similar texts but only one of them is a correct spelling of the words related to that picture - click the right spelling to win a point. Timed game.

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Rock fall

Test your reaction times with this short sharp game of reflexes and a bit of French knowledge - click / tap the rocks to break them and stop them hitting the road - only 4 questions and 10 points off for each wrong answer.. leaderboards available

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Hangman

Guess the item of vocabulary letter by letter from the on-screen keyboard - wrong guesses add pieces to the gallows being built on the beach. Great for reinforcing the spelling of words and emphasising the position / occurence particularly of accented letters in some French words.

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Have fun!

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Test your French with reading and writing tests with answers

These French tests are designed to round off your learning experience here at learn-French.net by testing whether you can correctly recognize the language you have learned (in the multiple choice test) and that you can correctly write out that language (in the writing test).

Make sure you have chosen the correct topic before starting! Although these tests are timed, try to relax and concentrate on getting the answers right at first - later you can try the tests again more quickly.

The two types of tests are:

1. A multiple choice quiz to check your recall of the spoken and/or written French.
2. A writing test to check your written French for the selected topic.

Key features of our French tests include:

• You can do these tests at home (or at school) without the help of a teacher.
• You can repeat our tests as often as you need to improve your scores.
• The tests check your vocabulary and comprehension for the topic.
• The writing test also checks your written / typed French for the topic.

You should expect to score 8+ / 10 in each test before you select a new topic. It is a good idea to repeat the test for each topic you do after two weeks to 'reinforce' the language for that topic

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1. On the settings screen, select the test you would like to take.
2. A new screen will open with information concerning the test.
3. When you are ready to begin, click "Start the test".

See below for detailed instructions on using the two tests:

Multiple choice test

This is a multiple choice activity similar to "What is it" in the French lessons - you are shown a randomly selected picture from the topic you are using. A selection of 5 texts from your topic are displayed as a list. Click on the speaker button to hear the audio for that text.

For each picture, you must click on the word/s that match that picture. If your answer is correct you will hear a bell and one star will be lit. The next picture will be shown. If your answer is wrong, a box will open showing you what the correct answer was.

The test is timed, and the clock starts when you click the Start button. At the end of your test a screen will tell you how many of the questions you got right and how long you took to complete the test.

Writing test

The writing test checks whether you can type the topic vocabulary using your keyboard. This test is also timed. You can do the test many times until you get a good score. To start the test, click on the "Writing test" sign in the navigation board, then click on the "Start the test" arrow.

A random picture from your selected topic is shown. Beneath the picture there is a white box into which you should type the words you have learnt for that picture. If you need a little help you can click on the "Help me" button for a quick reminder of the vocabulary. Only use the help if you really need to.

If you type the word or words correctly the program will automatically light a star. If you have entered your answer and no star lights up, click on the tick or press Enter on your keyboard to check your answer. When you have tried all the questions, a screen will show you how many questions you answered correctly and how long it took.

* Try to score 8 out of 10 in both test before you choose a new topic *
* It is OK to do the tests many times if you need to *

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Free online games in french for beginners with sound at french-games.net

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Start by choosing from over 100 beginner and advanced topics.

2. Lessons

French Lessons

Learn your chosen topic with our simple and free French lessons

French Games is a free online resource for French beginners that offers a complete set of French lessons , practice games and quick tests for over 100 French topics for free. Use the options below to learn or review any topic with any task.

French lessons on the site

Start visiting the site with a French lesson on the topic of your choice. Each of our 100+ lessons consists of a topic introduction and 3 lesson tasks, a yes/no, and/or or multiple choice task. While reading a topic, it is important to repeat what you hear and write down the words to help you remember the pronunciation and spelling of the language.

3 buildings in the lessons are arranged in order of increasing difficulty. When you do them, you will notice that your knowledge of the language increases. When you have completed the entire lesson, you will be able to remember and repeat the words for each item in the topic without prompts.

French learning games

We have 12 games with which you can practice any French topic on our website. The games are fast and easy to understand and help improve language retention by exercising different areas of the brain. Try different games for the best score! The games are free to use and work on both tablets (including iPads) and PCs.

French quizzes at french-games.

Complete the topic by taking our 2 spelling and multiple choice quizzes. They will confirm that you have fully mastered the material and will be able to reproduce what you have already learned after lessons and games.

The spelling test is harder than the multiple choice test, but it's important if you want to be able to write in French, not just speak it! As you can see in the screenshot, if you can't manage it, there is a hint button...

How to use the site

To start using the site, click here or on the "Start" button at the top of the page.

On the start page, you can select the first topic you want to learn. Once you have chosen a topic, you can go directly to the lessons, which consist of an introduction to the topic and 3 tasks for the lesson, a yes/no, and/or task or a multiple choice task. Once you have completed the lesson, try playing a few games to reinforce your knowledge of French in the selected topic. And then finally try our two tests, the multiple choice test and the spelling test, to make sure you get it right.

If you are a parent, you can visit the parent page for more information on how your child can use the site to improve their French language learning. We also have a FAQ page with even more information about the site.

We also have a YouTube channel for French learners with lots of learning videos!

Who is this site for?

"Games in French" is for children (and parents of children) and teenagers who want to learn French as a second language.

Maybe you are starting to learn French for the first time, or you want to repeat what you already know from a school or tutor with additional lessons and games. If you are between the ages of 5 and 50 (or even 25), try our website for more fun and interesting learning French.

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Working on the technique of reading in French at the initial stage of learning

Reading is the most popular type of speech activities at school. The Problem of Learning Skills reading is methodically sufficiently developed. Build comprehension reading skills impossible in the future without the formation reading skills, which is one of the the main tasks of teaching a foreign language. The teacher should not be limited to working with textbook texts. True craftsmanship teachers - constant search communicative-oriented tasks, adapted current and fresh texts, built on material familiar to students or containing unfamiliar words, the meaning of which you can guess.

Learning a foreign language is a discovery language world for the child. Efficiency learning depends on many factors, including and from the sharpness of the child's perception of this new world, its physical and emotional activity, opportunities for active participation. Physical activity sharpens all types of memory: tactile, motor, visual, figurative and auditory. The child will never mix up the verbs courir, sauter, voler if it runs, jumps, fly. Physical activity in the classroom helps do the iterative process and memorizing educational material more exciting, varied. She helps to take tension, makes it possible to get up from the desk and move once again, which is so necessary little students.

I am a foreign language teacher and namely, French in primary, secondary and senior level of secondary general education schools. I work according to Antonina's textbooks Stepanovna Kuligina in elementary school, Natalia Alexandrovna Selivanova "The Blue Bird" in middle link, where printed very content material. But, I have repeatedly the question arose: why are children reluctant and little read books, my lessons for them become uninteresting and boring? There are many reasons. One of them, I think the one that children can not read quickly in their native, Russian language quickly and consciously. After all reading is hard work for teachers elementary education for students. Make it more productive is the task of modern teachers. A question of fluent and expressive reading always worries teachers from elementary to senior training link. Reading is one component of speech development and condition further successful education. The skills of such readings are laid in the initial link.

In response to the question “Why did I start the problem of improving technology reading in the primary grades?” would answer like this:

• It has long been known when a person stops read, he stops thinking.
• In our age of scientific and technological progress, dominance of television, computers and video games children have lost interest in reading. But not only children do not read. Adults don't read either. According to VTsIOM, In 2000, in our city of Moscow, the first All-Russian congress in support of reading. On the It adopted an appeal to the citizens of Russia: “... it is necessary to unite all forces in order to stop the “debilitation” of children”.
• When talking to primary school teachers it turned out that in their classes there are a lot of “children risk." According to researchers, the number children at risk today is 35-45% of the total composition of children. This is explained by that tension that characterizes the period development of our country, the decline in social safety and health of children.
• Unfortunately for most parents and children English is considered the priority language. In the second class, when dividing into groups for learning foreign languages, French group includes children for whom it does not matter which they will learn the language. In my groups children with retarded mental development, children of the “group risk”, deviant children.

Therefore, for me, one of the topical issues is the formation of correct skills, conscious, fluent and expressive reading. This formation cannot be limited textbook text only. To teach students to read with pleasure and desire, I I use technology in my work optimal reading. Complex of technological techniques allows you to develop articulation, roar apparatus to regulate the breathing of students during reading, expand the field of vision, switch from one type of activity to another. Thanks to frequent change of activities in the classroom cognitive interests are activated students. I use reading in my lessons tables, work with tongue twisters, articulation and breathing exercises, work in pairs with crossword puzzles, various games, reading texts from the newspaper “First of September” and children's books. This allows you to expand student's vocabulary, improve it reading skills, conducting lessons in a variety of ways, interesting, children enjoy working with visual and educational material.

Reading does not require an interlocutor, only a book. In the first grade, the teacher taught children to the alphabet of the Russian language, consonants and vowel sounds of words and reading in their native language. My task is to teach children to read and write in a foreign language. In my work, I adhere to the following rules:

• Students learn the rule. Since they are slow write in Russian, I have to distribute pre-prepared cards with rules, which they stick in their notebooks.
• To consolidate this rule, I give oral training exercises. For example, when studying consonant letter C or G.
• Before learning another rule, be sure to we repeat the previous learned rules. Again I give several training exercises for everything regulations. Be sure to check the studied rules. I select the rules of reading simplified in a way that second graders remember well they were not forgotten. For example, twin letters, brother and sister qu , they never part, hold hands tightly; vowels eau, au, eu, ou, ei,ai always stand behind each other, breathing, friend to a friend in the back of the head, only in such sequences. I propose the rules in such sequences:
• Rule for au, eau, ot, o - [o]

1. Look at the word bateau. How much is in it vowels, consonants? Name them. How many in a word syllables?
2. Read the words

1. Find combinations eau, ot in words and read them, tightly clenching their lips and teeth. Read them aloud.

Lavabo, solo, argot, taureau, chapeau, dactylo, oiseau, dynamo, moineau, sabot, tricot, duo, casino, bravo.

2. Read the words. Tell me which pictures they are relate.

Un oiseau, un chapeau, un cadeau, un bateau, un sabot, un matelot, un domino, un radio, un robot, un drapeau.

• The rule for ai, ais, ait, et at the end of words is written more often just like the sound [E].

1. Look at the word portrait. How many letters are in it vowels and consonants? Read in syllables. Name first and second syllables.
2. Read the words with the teacher, speaking clearly syllables.

3. Read the first column again without a teacher.
4. Read the second column, closing your lips tightly and teeth, then smoothly read the words aloud.
5. Read the words in the third column with alternate setting of logical stress on selected letter combination.
6. Read the fourth column in pairs.

Studying the technique improvement system reading, came to the conclusion that reading after the announcer contributes to the development of articulation and the production word reading skills. Reading in pairs trains the ability to distribute the attention of the weak students to improve their reading quality. BUT repeated reading contributes to daily accumulation of visual images in the memory of the child words.

During phonetic charging articulation exercises. These exercises develop the mobility of speech apparatus, serve as a warm-up before reading.

Vowels A, O, OU, I, E

Combinations A - OU, A - O, A - E, I - O

Consonants F - D - S, F - S - C

Consonants and vowels Ce , ci, cy, co, ca, cla, cloa

• Rule “Consonants”

Consonants B, C, D, F, G, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, Z most often read as sounds b, c, d, f, g, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, z. How can we pronounce these words while reading? letters? Each letter has its own name when read. This can be found in E. M. Beregovskaya and M. Toussaint in the textbook "Blue Bird". I changed names: B - Boris, C - Corinne, D - Desiree, F - Frederic, G - Galina, J - Juliette, K - Konstantine, L - Lili, M - Marie, N - Nadine, P - Paul, Q - Quentin, R - Rita, S - Serge, T - Tania, V - Victor, Z - Zoe. The students helped me print your photos for these letters. Them I like to train with such photo cards, pronouncing first the part of the name that consists of a vowel and then a consonant. When training, they call the name of the letter, the sound when reading this letter. Especially enthusiastically called their names, write them unmistakably on their notebooks.

• Rule

Words with C		Words with K
Ca–ca va - Ca va? - a va. Ce-cette Benefit Actrice Caprice Concert Trace Police Merci Fugace Cerise Place		Acacia Acoustique Chic Choc lac pic plastic vacant avec cabane carotte cartable
Words with CC
Coccinelle Buccal	Buccin accident		accueillir raccomoder

1. Read the words in which the letter c is read as [s], underline the letter c with a green pencil, if it is read like a sound [k].

Un cactus, un crocodile, une carotte, une corde, l'acacia, un concert, un bic, un lac.

2. Read the words and say which pictures they refer to. relate.

Le sac, la carotte, le cactus, le crocodile, l'abricot, la culotte.

The main thing that students need to learn, first you need to learn the rule in C - [ s ], then the rule in C - [k], bring the reading of words to automatism.

Children aged 7-8 tend to want to learn read. This desire and ability to read a student is necessary must be taken into account by the teacher. If you start reading later, the results will be different, because interest weakens, other desires appear and students' aspirations. You have to do very a lot of preparatory work. All tasks from cooking rules with illustrations from children's books, textbooks by other authors.

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