French: Christmas- Word search and Crosswords- Games

Fifteen French Christmas words — from l'ange (angel) to le Père Noël (Santa) — are practiced through two crossword puzzles and two matching exercises, each offered in both English-to-French and French-to-English versions.

Grades: Grades 4–8
Pages: 8
File type: Multiple File Types
Answer key: Included

Updated Dec 13, 2024

Subject: French, Foreign Languages
Topic: Bilingual Education, French Language
Resource types: Crosswords Puzzles, Word Searches, Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
Answer key: Included

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About this resource

French: Christmas- Word search and Crosswords- Games

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 wordsearch 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 worksheets are non-editable.

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 promote cultural sensitivity among young learners about global festivities.

In the classroom

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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