La Famille Word Search

Fifteen French family-member terms drive a matched set of crossword and word-search puzzles, each offered in both translation directions with a slideshow version and full answer keys.
Year levels
Years 4–8
Pages
8
File type
Multiple File Types
Answer key
Included

Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
French, Foreign Languages
Topic
French, Family
Resource types
Crosswords Puzzles, Word Searches
Answer key
Included

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About this resource

French: Family- word search and Crosswords- Games

2 Games for your beginner students to practice keywords that you have covered in class on the topic of Family- La famille

The resource file:

You will find a word search and a crosswords: Les membres de la famille.

For differentiation: there are 2 versions for each game.

- 1 flag = find the English equivalent of the French words

- 2 flags = find the French equivalent of the English words.

The same words are used in both versions

Vocabulary included:

  • la mère (mother)

  • le père (father)

  • le frère (brother)

  • la sœur (sister)

  • le grand-père (grandfather)

  • la grand-mère (grandmother)

  • les parents (parents)

  • les grands-parents (grandparents)

  • l'oncle (uncle)

  • la tante (aunt)

  • le cousin (cousin)

  • le beau-père (stepfather)

  • la belle-mère (stepmother)

  • le demi-frère (half-brother)

  • la demi-sœur (half-sister)

What is included in the .zip file

-4 worksheets (as well as their version with answers) in .pdf format

-A PPT presentation is also included so you can project the activities and answers on the board (if you so wish) to facilitate giving instructions and corrections.

Please note: the worksheets are provided as .pdf and are therefore not editable

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Recall and correctly translate 15 French family-member vocabulary terms in both directions (French-to-English and English-to-French)

  • Classify French family-member nouns by grammatical gender (masculine or feminine)

Teaching tips

  • Assign the crossword and word search from the same translation direction as a matched pair, since both puzzles in each pair share the identical 15-word vocabulary list and answer key.

  • Use the gender colour-coding challenge as a quick formative check after the puzzle is finished, since it appears on every worksheet as a fixed follow-up task.

Skills covered

  • Bidirectional vocabulary translation — students complete matched puzzle pairs asking for the English translation of French terms and the French translation of English terms.

  • Grammatical gender classification — the recurring challenge task asks students to sort the 15 family words into masculine and feminine groups by colour.

  • Puzzle-based recall — the same vocabulary set is practised through both crossword and word-search formats for repeated retrieval practice.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • French family vocabulary

  • Crossword and word-search puzzles

  • Grammatical gender (masculine/feminine)

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