Welcome to the French pages at Project HappyChild. By about 2009 our free French worksheets were receiving over two million page views per year. We've aimed to make French *easier* to learn, because all the vocabulary is grouped by "themes". Whatever you're looking for, you should find it here! Well, more or less :)

Many children and teenagers find French boring because they're expected to express themselves in five-year-old vocabulary ("My name is ... I live in ... I go shopping"). Our free worksheets make it possible to learn to say rather more than that ... whether about food and drink, your home, garden, family, the human body [everything from the body's inner systems to hair, make-up and clothing], animals, birds and insects [including animal sounds], travel, holidays and sightseeing, cars and driving, tools and equipment, or school, office, sports and leisure, shopping, trees, countryside and general chit-chat. All in easy-to-manage blocks, each with about 10 new words or phrases.

The French verb worksheets are also linked from the huge table below - the English and French verb names take you to the index for that verb, and the numbered columns take you to the individual tenses (column 1 is present tense, etc.).

All the worksheets can be used for both English-French and French-English. This was the *first* dual-language area in a huge project called "Any Language to English" - 800+ verb and vocabulary worksheets which can be used for translation into *any* other language. See the Translators page for details of over 10,000 dual-language worksheets already now on line here (and others in preparation). More offers of volunteer help from language professionals worldwide would be much appreciated :)

All pages of our Guide to Basic French Grammar are also now on line.

My deepest thanks to Rita, for many many hours spent checking the French on hundreds of worksheets, and also to Shaidi Khan for her help with preparation of comprehensive vocabulary lists.

Special thanks go to Mario Becroft in New Zealand, for the original programming work which made this resource possible, and to David Booker in the UK, for accelerating the output of completed worksheet sets.

Project HappyChild / Freeway worksheets may be used as a non-commercial education resource, free of charge,
provided only that each worksheet is printed / photocopied without modification and includes the whole page as it appears on line.
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Each worksheet should print onto a single A4 sheet: select print page 1 (only) and adjust % if required to reduce size.

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