French: Family- word search and Crosswords- Games
- Grades
- Grades 4–8
- Pages
- 17
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- Foreign Languages, French
- Topic
- French family vocabulary, Crossword
- Resource types
- Word Searches
- Answer key
- Included
Product description
From the author
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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or these crosswords and word searches on the topic of pets: https://teachsimple.com/product/french-pets-word-search-and-crosswords-games
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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 same 15-word vocabulary list but have separate answer pages.
Use the gender color-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 color.
Puzzle-based recall — the same vocabulary set is practiced through both crossword and word-search formats for repeated retrieval practice.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
Do the crossword and the word search use different vocabulary lists?
No -- all four puzzles (two crosswords, two word searches) are built from the same 15-word family vocabulary list, just presented in different puzzle formats and translation directions.
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French family vocabulary
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