French resources

Free classroom resources for use with your favourite Oxford French dictionaries

Our free classroom resources and activities will help your students get to grips with grammar and learn to love vocabulary!

Age 7-11 (find resources for 11-16 here)

Oxford First French Learner's Dictionary cover These resources are the perfect accompaniment to our First Learner's French dictionary. The dictionary activities are grouped broadly into two sections - Finding your Way around the Dictionary and Using your Dictionary. Each topic has two activities, a Challenge and a Super Challenge.

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Finding your Way around the Dictionary
1 Why use a dictionary? (different uses of a bilingual dictionary)      Super Challenge
2 What’s in your dictionary? (different sections/use of colour)      Super Challenge
3 What’s on a page? (typical dictionary page + abbreviations + numbering)      Super Challenge
4 It’s as easy as ABC (importance of knowing alphabetical order)      Super Challenge
5 Know your alphabet (alphabetical order practice)      Super Challenge
6 Top Tips (making use of guide words)      Super Challenge
7 Did you know? (info boxes, colour-coding)      Super Challenge
Using your Dictionary
French-English side
8 Look it up! (finding a meaning of a headword)      Super Challenge
9 Work it out! (finding a meaning of a word when it is not a headword)      Super Challenge
10 Does it really mean that? (words with more than one meaning)      Super Challenge
11 Top speller! (checking spelling)      Super Challenge
12 Masculine or feminine (finding a gender)      Super Challenge
13 Word classes (finding parts of speech)      Super Challenge
14 Word power! (vocabulary building)      Super Challenge
15 Word families (vocabulary building)      Super Challenge
16 True or false? (faux-amis)      Super Challenge
17 Recipe for plurals (irregular plurals)      Super Challenge
English-French side
18 Label it! (finding the equivalent word [1])      Super Challenge
19 Crack the code! (finding the equivalent word [2])      Super Challenge
20 Spell-check (checking spellings)      Super Challenge
21 How many meanings? (words with more than one meaning)      Super Challenge
22 Noun, verb, or adjective? (choosing the right part of speech)      Super Challenge
23 His and hers (getting gender right)      Super Challenge
24 Plural puzzle (English plural words that translate as singular in French, and vice versa)      Super Challenge
25 All about animals (vocabulary building [1])      Super Challenge
26 At the seaside (vocabulary building [2])      Super Challenge
27 Follow the example! (example sentences from the dictionary)      Super Challenge
Work on the centre section of the dictionary
28 Crazy colours! (vocabulary building - colours)      Super Challenge
29 Good enough to eat! (vocabulary building - food)      Super Challenge
30 Making friends (useful phrases - conversation)      Super Challenge
31 How do you feel? (useful phrases - phrases with être and avoir)      Super Challenge
32 Fun with verbs (verb tables - introducing infinitive and subject pronouns)      Super Challenge

Activity Answers 1-32

Age 11-16

These worksheets and activities are to be used with the Oxford French Learner's Dictionary. The Oxford Learner's French Dictionary is so much more than just a one word look up - the Learner's dictionary gives advice, context and tips to support learners both on paper and verbally.

There are two types of activity: Challenge and Super Challenge.

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Challenge

Activity 1 - Alphabetical order

Activity 2 - Catchwords

Activity 3 - Finding the meaning

Activity 4 - Find that Verb

Activity 5 - Find that Verb 2

Activity 6 - To be or to have

Activity 7 - French slang

Activity 8 - Get the Right meaning 1

Activity 9 - Get the Right meaning 2