Six jobs a child can point at, with their French names hidden in the grid

Job words are useful early because a child can point at real people with them: the farmer, the pilot, the waitress bringing the plates. On this sheet each of those has a picture and a French name buried in the grid, running across or down. The child matches picture to word, finds the letters, and draws a ring round them. Nothing has to be written out, which keeps the task within reach of a child who is still slow with a pencil.

Two of the six carry endings a beginner should meet now rather than later. SERVEUSE ends in the feminine form, so it names a woman specifically; ACTEUR does not. ENTRAÎNEUR is the longest word here at ten letters, and it holds a circumflex that a child scanning fast will read straight through. Worth a finger under it and a slow second look.

This one suits a classroom well: six jobs, six pictures, and enough to talk about afterwards without any French being required of the adult. Ask which job the child would choose and why, then let them say the word for it. PILOTE and ARTISTE are close enough to English to give a nervous learner an early success, which is usually where the rest of the sheet comes from.