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How to Say ‘What Is Her Name?’ in French
5-minute games for kids and adults that are FREE, EASY and FUN
Everyone loves a good chat.
Including kids.
They love to prattle on about this and that. They often don’t make sense, but often they are very funny.
As a French teacher to kids for ten years, I tried to recreate the kind of fun, nonsensical approach kids have to speaking with language learning.
I tried to create an environment that gave them as much freedom as possible to be creative and silly while learning French at the same time.
But I have to come clean, it wasn’t me that created the fun, relaxed environment at all. It was my puppet.
I brought my puppet Tonton la Tortue (Tonton the Tortoise) everywhere I went.
The children loved interacting with Tonton because he was so naughty. We were always forced to repeat ourselves to get him to listen and behave, so the children learned without realizing it.
I am going to share with you some of the ways we learned how to ask ‘What is her name?’ or ‘What is his name?’ in French and the responses ‘he is called’ and ‘she is called’.
