Looking for a new way to drill French pronouns? This resource includes 50 sentences to improve listening and speaking skills when using direct and indirect object pronouns and the adverbial pronouns Y and EN. Check out the preview to take a closer look.

Some negation and double pronouns are used, and this activity includes the following tenses:

• present tense
• passé composé
• futur proche
• imperative

This is a 24 minute MP3 audio recording of 50 sentences to be restated or written by your students using a pronoun or double pronouns. Each sentence is read twice before time is given for student responses, then the answer is given. You will appreciate the differences in the voices used in this recording. There are three different voices, all native speakers.

I've included five different ways that you can use this pronoun audio drill (see below). Suitable for core, immersion and homeschool curriculums. This drill is fantastic practice for the AP exam.

This resource is included in my advanced French growing bundle.

What's included?

• MP3 recording audio drill - 50 sentences - 24 minutes
• 5 ways to use this audio drill
• Transcript
• Answer key
• Student response sheet

1. Language lab or classroom listening and speaking exercise

Students listen to the drill either as a class or with individual headphones on. They will hear a sentence read twice by two different speakers. The number of pronouns to be used in each sentence is indicated in the recording. After the second reading of the sentence students are given time to say their answer before the correct response is pronounced. The sentences are purposefully not numbered in the recording so that you can choose to do them either in or out of order. This is a listening and speaking grammar drill and writing the answers is not necessarily encouraged.

2. Language lab or classroom silent written exercise

Provide each student with a numbered answer recording sheet. Students should be reminded to pay close attention as the sentences in the recording are NOT numbered. The sentences that are read in the recording are written on the student response sheet and words to be replaced by pronouns are underlined. Since this is a fast moving exercise you may want to give students a chance to revise their answers once the recording has stopped.

3. Whiteboard classroom activity - Individual or paired work

Have students write sentences using pronouns on whiteboards after they’ve heard the sentence spoken twice. Pause the recording and give students time to write their answers. When they’ve finished have them listen carefully and check their work when you stop pause and play the answer. This works particularly well with pairs of students because they can help each other and the work won’t seem so tedious. I often allow my pairs of students to keep track of one point per correct answer and at the end of the activity see which group has the most points.

4. Bell ringer activity

You have and extra five or ten minutes at the beginning or end of class, why not play a few minutes of the pronoun drill? With 50 sentences to choose from you could keep it quite varied.

5. Group writing game

Chances are you have your students’ desks in some kind of rows or groups. Here’s a fun way to change up the pronoun drill a bit. Let’s say you have rows or groups of five students. Before starting the drill recording give the first person in each group a blank sheet of paper and he should have something to write with.

Number the paper 1 - 5 (or the number of students in the group) and as you play the drill the first student has to write his answer next to #1. He has to write something even if he doesn’t know exactly how to spell it. Immediately after the answer is pronounced on the recording he must pass the paper to the next person in his group. It’s important not to hesitate because the recording will continue.

Person #2 records his answer and so on until each person in the group has had a go. At this point, stop the recording and the last person in each group brings the paper back up to the first person who can look over all of the answers written by his group members. He can make any changes he wants to make to anyone’s answer BUT STUDENTS CANNOT SPEAK A WORD TO EACH OTHER.

He then passes the paper back down the row and everyone gets a chance to change either his own or another group member’s answer. They should move fast though because here’s the catch, the first group to turn in a 100% accurate paper to the teacher wins that round!

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