French: Christmas- Word search and Crosswords- Games
- Year levels
- Years 4–8
- Pages
- 8
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- French, Foreign Languages
- Topic
- Bilingual Education, French Language
- Resource types
- Crosswords Puzzles, Word Searches
- Answer key
- Included
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About this resource
Engage your students this festive season with this fun and educational French Christmas resource!
Package Features:
The package offers two enjoyable activities: A Christmas-themed crossword and a Christmas-themed word search.
Dual versions are included for each game: English to French or French to English, providing the possibility of differentiation within your group of students.
All answers are provided
In total eight files are included in PDF format
A PPT presentation, which makes instructions more manageable by allowing direct projection onto the board leading to interactive group discussion and quicker corrections.
The games cover 15 keywords, such as "l'ange'" (angel), "le cadeau'" (present) or "la neige'" (snow).
The eight one-page PDF worksheets and answer pages are non-editable; a nine-slide PowerPoint presents the puzzles and answers.
Cultural Learning Experience
This engaging combination of word search activity paired with crosswords game steps away from standard language practice norms transforming monotonous lessons into fun sessions that provide repeated French Christmas vocabulary practice.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Students can translate fifteen French Christmas vocabulary words into English and vice versa.
Students can complete a crossword puzzle using either French-to-English or English-to-French vocabulary clues.
Students can sort French nouns by grammatical gender (masculine vs. feminine) using the colour-coding challenge.
Teaching tips
Assign the French-to-English version to students still building English vocabulary, and the English-to-French version to those further along in French.
Project the PowerPoint version on the board to walk through the crossword answers as a class before or after individual worksheet practice.
Pair the crossword and matching-exercise versions of the same word list back to back so students see the fifteen words in two different task formats.
Use the masculine/feminine colour-coding challenge as a quick grammar check once students have finished translating the vocabulary.
Skills covered
French-English vocabulary translation — students translate fifteen Christmas words in both directions (le cadeau ↔ present, la neige ↔ snow, etc.).
Crossword solving — students fill in a French or English crossword grid using translation clues for the same fifteen words.
Grammatical gender sorting — students colour-code the fifteen vocabulary words by masculine (le/l') or feminine (la) gender.
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How do the two crossword versions differ?
One gives French clues and asks for the English translation, while the other gives English clues and asks for the French translation.
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