French Accents - Google Slides™ Lesson and Interactive Activities

This Google Slides™ resource is a fun and effective way to teach les accents in French! It includes a variety of interactive activities and exercises for students to complete, that will help them better understand how accents affect the pronunciation of words in the French language.

The 40 slides include the following (in French):

• a lesson on the purpose of all 5 accents, including strategies to help identify the accents
• videos from YouTube to reinforce the lesson
• interactive drag and drop exercises to choose the correct accent on bold letters in specific words
• tongue twister for students to practice pronunciation
• a quiz to assess learning, which includes:

• identify the accents
• multiple choice
• put the appropriate accent on words from an excerpt of « Boucles d'or et les trois ours » (2 versions of instructions - one where the teacher reads the excerpt and students listen for pronunciation; another where students read the excerpt by themselves)

• an answer key for all activities
• final task - Monsieur ou Madame L'Accent:
• students draw a famous character using all 5 accents and label the drawing
• examples included
• slide to take a photo of their drawing and upload the image

This is an excellent resource to use for both in-person and distance or online learning! I find that my students' pronunciation in reading and speaking greatly improves after teaching them about the importance and purpose of accents in French.