I’m glad to announce the release of another set of printable bilingual flashcards. This time it is English-French flashcards. They are designed to help ESL teachers working with kids whose native language is French teach English in a fun way.
My husband used to study French in a Foreign Language Institute as a second foreign language. He used to teach French at school and even worked in France for a while. So he helped me to create this set of printable English French flashcards.
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| English-French flashcards are designed in different colors depending on the gender of French nouns |
When designing English-French flashcards, I also thought about educators who might want to use this visual teaching material to teach French to English speakers. That is why I have designed flashcards in three different colors depending on the gender of French words: red for feminine French nouns, blue for masculine French nouns and magenta for French nouns that can be both feminine and masculine (e.g., professions).
Just as the recently released sets of
English-Spanish flashcards and
English-only flashcards, the English-French set covers nouns that make up the
core English vocabulary every beginner should know. I have included some common nouns recommended by educators for kids who start learning to read. We know these words as
sight words. The flashcards feature some frequently used nouns from the
Dolch sight word list and the Fry sight word list. Therefore educators can easily use some of these flashcards to teach English to francophones at kindergartens and elementary schools.
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| The set of English-French flashcards considers differences between British and American vocabulary |
Since French speaking students are both in Europe in America, they might need to take into consideration differences between British and American English. My collection of printable English-French flashcards offers both common British and American terms for some vocabulary featured in the set.
You are unlikely to find a larger collection of printable English-French flashcards. The set includes more than 700 flashcards covering nouns in the following 16 topics:
Animals
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| One of the animal flashcards featuring a snail. |
Calendar and Time
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| One of the English-French flashcards in the "Calendar and Time" set. |
Clothes and Accessories
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| One of the clothes flashcards featuring a scarf. |
Food and Tableware
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| One of the food flashcards featuring cheese. |
Home and Furniture
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| One of the home & furniture flashcards featuring bedroom. |
Human Body
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| One of the human body flashcards featuring feet. |
Nature and World around Us
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| One of the nature flashcards featuring a rainbow. |
People
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| One of the people flashcards featuring a woman. |
Places and Geography
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| One of the English-French flashcards belonging to the "Places & Geography" set featuring a bridge. |
Professions and Occupations
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| One of the English-French flashcards of the "Professions & Occupations" set featuring a dentist. |
School
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| One of the school flashcards featuring a school bag. |
Shapes
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| One of the shapes flashcards featuring a crescent. |
Sports
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| One of the sports flashcards featuring cycling. |
Toys
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| One of the toys flashcards featuring a kite. |
Transportation
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| One of the transportation flashcards featuring a ship. |
Miscellaneous Nouns
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| One of the English-French flashcards belonging to the collection of miscellaneous nouns. |
You can see the
whole list of words featured in the set of English-French flashcards
here.
The set of English-French flashcards features some colorful pictures that kids will certainly enjoy. Besides pictures, these visually enriched cards have cut-out parts with English and French words. Teachers might want to detach the word parts for one or both languages to use flashcards for different games and activities such as word-to image matching tasks.
I’ll be publishing individual English-French flashcards in a multiple future blog posts until the entire collection is available here. ESL teachers and other educators can download them for free from those posts or
purchase all of them in high resolution printer-ready PDF version.
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