French: Logic Puzzle- A recent trip to Paris

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French: Logic Puzzle- A recent trip to Paris

In this resource file, you will find a worksheet of a Logic Puzzle for learners of French.

This puzzle is for: Une visite récente à Paris.

The resource is aimed at students of grades 7- 10. Students must be familiar with the Perfect Tense in French (Le passé composé) to complete this puzzle.

The worksheet includes:

- a small map of Paris with some of the most famous landmarks

- an summary of Luc's activities during his trip to Paris with his family

- a logic grid

- a table for the solution

The written passage is in French and in the perfect tense.

Instructions:

To complete the activity, students must use both the map of Paris and the clues from the written passage (both on page one of the .pdf document) and fill out the matrix with the clues in an attempt to deduce the solution (on page two of the .pdf document)

The solution table is then used for students to show the solution to the question: Where did Luc and his family go each day and what did they visit?

Answers:

A second .pdf document is provided with answers to the logic grid and the solution table.

Please note that the .pdf files are not editable

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Read a continuous French narrative in the passé composé, including reflexive constructions such as nous nous sommes promenés and nous nous sommes rendus
Identify Paris landmarks from description alone - a cathedral on an island in the Seine, a museum with a pyramid-shaped building, a basilica in the north of the city
Follow the days of the week in French, including relative markers such as le lendemain, le jour suivant and le dernier jour
Combine two sources of information, the written clues and the map, to complete a logic grid where neither source is enough on its own
Record a solved deduction in a structured table, naming each attraction and its arrondissement

Teaching tips

Only one landmark is named outright in the passage; the other six are described, so a class new to Paris geography will need the map introduced before they start
Every verb in the passage is in the perfect tense, which makes the page usable as passé composé reading practice even for students who finish the puzzle early
Arrondissement numbers appear in the passage only for the 8th and the 16th, so the remaining five have to come from the map - worth pointing out before students look for them in the text
The solution table can be completed in French or in English depending on the class, since the attraction names stay in French either way
The two PDFs are otherwise identical, so print from the student file and keep the second one on screen while circulating

Skills covered

Reading French in the perfect tense - the whole passage runs on passé composé forms with both auxiliaries, from nous avons pris l'avion to nous sommes rentrés.
Deductive reasoning - seven days, seven attractions and seven arrondissements are matched on a logic grid where each clue eliminates possibilities.
Inference from description - students recognise Notre-Dame from "une cathédrale située sur une île de la Seine" and the Louvre from "un musée dont l'un des bâtiments est en forme de pyramide".
Reading a city map - the arrondissement column can only be completed by locating each landmark on the Paris map printed with the puzzle.
Cultural knowledge of Paris - the seven answers cover a monument, a stadium, a cathedral, a museum, a basilica and a cemetery across six different arrondissements.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

What French does a student need before starting?

Comfort with the perfect tense above all: every sentence in the passage is in the passé composé, using both avoir and être and including reflexive forms such as nous nous sommes promenés. Days of the week, ordinal numbers for the arrondissements and the relative pronoun dont also appear.

Are the landmarks named in the passage?

Only one is. The Eiffel Tower is named on the Monday; the other six are described rather than named - a historic monument in the 8th, a stadium in the 16th where PSG play, a cathedral on an island in the Seine, an art museum with a pyramid-shaped building, a basilica north of the city, and a famous cemetery where many well-known people are buried.

What goes into the solution table?

Three columns across seven rows. Each row takes a day from Monday to Sunday, the name of the attraction visited, and the area - the arrondissement number. The completed version runs from the Eiffel Tower in the 7th on Monday to Père Lachaise in the 20th on Sunday.