French back to school activities: RENTRÉE SCOLAIRE

Looking for engaging French icebreakers and back-to-school activities for la rentrée? Get your students speaking, interacting, writing, and getting to know their classmates with this comprehensive collection of French first-week-of-school activities.

Designed for Core French and French Immersion, these activities provide structured opportunities for students to ask and answer questions, express preferences, find things in common, interview classmates, and build confidence speaking French.

Use the activities for the first day of French class, throughout the first week of school, as bell ringers, partner activities, small-group speaking practice, writing activities, or classroom community builders.

⭐ Activities Included

This French back-to-school resource includes:

• Bienvenue en classe getting-to-know-you activity
• Questions pour faire connaissance
• Parler en français conversation support/reference
• Trouve quelqu’un qui… / Find Someone Who activities
• 28 “Tu préfères…?” / Would You Rather speaking cards
• Tu préfères…? writing activity
• How to justify your choice language support
• Je suis quelqu’un qui… writing activity
• Je suis quelqu’un qui voudrait…
• Deux vérités et un mensonge / Two Truths and a Lie
• Deserted island speaking and writing activities
• Conversation challenge grid
• Build-a-question activity
• Follow-up question practice
• 60-second French speaking challenge
• Partner interview
• Présente ton partenaire presentation activity
• Chasse aux conversations classroom speaking scavenger hunt
• Moi, je préfère… preference activity
• Change de partenaire! speaking rotation
• First-week reflection
• French communication goal tracker
• Conversation board game
• Cut-apart French conversation question cards
• Cut-apart conversation challenge cards
• Teacher implementation guide
• Student French communication self-assessment
• French phrase and vocabulary reference
• Final classroom-community page

⭐ Great for French Speaking & Classroom Community

Students practice important communication skills such as:

asking questions • answering questions • expressing preferences • giving reasons • asking follow-up questions • listening to classmates • finding common interests • presenting information • speaking in complete French sentences

The resource also includes English directions and language support on many activities, making the activities more accessible for students who are still developing their French communication skills.

Perfect for:

French back to school • la rentrée scolaire • French icebreakers • first day of French • first week of French • Core French • French Immersion • French speaking activities • partner speaking • classroom community • French conversation practice

Mix and match the activities to create an engaging first day of French class, or spread them throughout the first week as bell ringers, partner work, speaking stations, small-group activities, and writing practice.

⚠️ Please note: This resource is not editable and will not be provided in an editable format. Thank you for understanding.