Games to Play to Learn Time in French
Learning to tell the time in French can help you avoid forgetting vital words in real-life situations. Understanding how to tell the time to the hour and the minute and being fluent in such time-of-day terms as morning, midday and evening are all important to learning the time in French. Many types of games can be used to learn to answer the question, "Quelle heure est-il?" or "What time it is?"
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Simple Time
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Basic games that can help you learn the time in French generally focus on being able to tell the hour. These games work in a variety of ways, but the simplest form is one in which you are presented with a clock and have to tell the time according to what is displayed. Games like this help you remember the word “heure,” meaning "hour," and give you practice using it after the numbers “un” (one) through “douze” (12). These games may require the player to say the words aloud or to write them.
Listening Games
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Games that focus on listening to French speakers can also be used to tell the time in French. The player is usually presented with a clip of someone saying a time in French or is spoken to directly by an experienced fellow player. The listener then has to either say the time in English or draw a clock representing the time spoken. Online games that use this format may require the player to choose which of several clocks is displaying the correct time.
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Additional Units of Time
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Games focusing on other units of time can teach you the words for “morning” (“le matin”), afternoon (“l’apres-midi”) and evening (“le soir”), as well as the words for the seasons, days, weeks and months. Generally, these games -- either online or on paper --will present you with the phrase and either require a translation or for you to mark or click on the relevant choice.
Complex Time-telling
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More complicated games teach time-telling to the minute. This ideally requires knowledge of French numbers up to 60, but word-to-clock matching games can be used to learn some numbers through the process of elimination. These games can be done as a listening, speaking, reading or writing game. They present you with either spoken language, written language or a clock and ask you to work out how to say, write, or choose the correct clock face from several options.
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