French in the shadow of D’Artagnan

By Elaine Kelly | Posted: Thursday March 27, 2025

Year 10 French have come to the spontaneous production phase of their most recent unit of work.

This phase takes place once much consolidation and practice has occurred through structured and semi-structured tasks. 

In order to facilitate this phase of learning, we played a game called “tous pour un et un pour tous” in true musketeer fashion. Boys played in teams of four and they had to come up with as many answers as possible to a familiar question. When it came to giving their answers, they had to take turns with every student in the group being forced to give at least one answer each. If one member of the team was struggling, the rest were able to help by whispering in his ear, hence “all for one and one for all”.

The quality of their answers dictated the number of points scored. The competitive nature of the game made for full engagement from the boys and a variety of top notch responses using complex language. Rising to the challenge and able to say “touché” to all the rest, the top performing team were Lachlan Gill, Matt Sinnott, Mustafa Taha and Nathaniel Vickers. 

Bien fait to these boys!

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