Comprehensible input is important in a world languages class - but you can't always do stories. This is a lesson that uses target structures in a comprehensible way to teach about a non-fiction topic - how France celebrates the Christmas season. The text is appropriate for 2nd semester French and later.

The target structures are:

• les enfants
• les cadeaux
• décoré
• on mange

The lesson includes:

• an editable 18-slide powerpoint with repetition of the target vocabulary

• a text version of the powerpoint

• comprehension questions in both French and English

• a story retell sheet with photos - one for writing, one for oral retell

• a list of associated videos in both English and French

• a complete answer key

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Are you looking for a way to teach about the holiday season in France with your students? Would you like your students to learn about the customs and traditions of a French Christmas but you aren't sure where to start? This full-cover printable pdf magazine will help! Share it with your students online, project it to a screen, or print copies (note that there are many photos and backgrounds, it will print best in color).

The pdf magazine has 26 pages of readings and photos so your students can learn about the holiday while staying in the target language. Topics included in the magazine are:

• Key vocabulary words of the season
• How to find the perfect gift
• Food specialties of the season
• Christmas songs
• Shopping at the Christmas markets
• How to spend the holiday like a French person
• Père Noël, Père Fouettard, and Saint Nicolas - what's the difference?
• Recipes of the season
• Important dates
• How to make Crêpes
• Winter in France
• Santons
• A letter to Père Noël
• New Year's Eve celebrations

Once you're read the magazine, there is a variety of student activities:

• Compare and contrast: Christmas in the US vs. France
• Shopping for gifts
• Les Vitrines
• Which one is it: Père Fouettard, Père Noël or Saint Nicolas?
• Resolutions for the new year
• Letter to Père Noël
• Design a santon
• Vocabulary matching activity
• True or False

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This set of 8 daily agenda backgrounds will allow you to share your daily information with your students in an organized fashion! Each slide has a section for the date and two sections for information. The text is completely editable, so you can use whatever font and content you like.

Ready to bring more comprehensible input into your French classroom? Look no further than this engaging French Comprehensible Input lesson – the new year! Appropriate for any students in their second semester of French or beyond, this lesson is the perfect way to learn about how France celebrates the new year and Epiphany.

It’s so easy to use! This ready-to-go worksheet uses target structures in a comprehensible way, allowing for almost effortless learning. With this new level of engagement, your student’s enjoyment is sure to skyrocket.

Why wait? Start bringing more comprehensible input into your classroom today and watch your students gain confidence and look forward to using the language in a fun, interactive way. Get ready to experience an unforgettable New Year’s celebration among your students thanks to this user-friendly relevant French lesson!

The target structures are:

• ils fêtent
• beaucoup de gens
• certain(e)(s)

This item includes:

• a 32-slide PowerPoint with repetition of the target vocabulary
• a text version of the PowerPoint
• comprehension questions
• a grammar explanation on forming the future tense
• a worksheet on writing resolutions
• a worksheet on matching resolutions with the plans for achieving them
• a story retell sheet with photos - one for writing, one for oral retell
• a list of associated videos
• a complete answer key

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This set of 12 daily agenda backgrounds will allow you to share your daily information with your students in an organized fashion! Each slide has a section for the date and two sections for information. The text is completely editable, so you can use whatever font and content you like.

No matter what digital platform you are using, digital stickers can make things a little more fun for students! This set of 9 digital stickers featuring French phrases and a gingerbread holiday theme will be a cute addition to your digital toolbox. Just copy and paste the image onto your student pages!

This French vocabulary digital game will allow your students to practice French Christmas vocabulary words - there is a variety of questions, some are multiple-choice while others are open-ended. Self-grading, as students get the correct answer it will allow them to move through the game or will show them that they are correct through animation.

Includes a Google drive and Powerpoint version of the game. Share with students as an individual assignment or work through the activity as a class on a smartboard.

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This French reading comprehension activity will entertain your students while teaching them about French culture and the holiday season.  It is suitable for novice-high/intermediate-low students with teacher guidance and higher level students to work independently. Père Fouettard is tired of always being the bad guy. So this year he makes a deal - HE will be delivering the presents and getting to be part of the joy of the season! What could possibly go wrong? It turns out, quite a bit!  Kids are scared, nobody trusts the new guy, and nobody is quite sure exactly how the presents will get delivered.

This item includes:

• 5 page story with glossary of less-frequent words
• Comprehension questions in English
• Comprehension questions in French
• Illustrate the story activity
• Who/what/where/when/why/how activity
• Answer Key
• infographic about Christmas in France
• resources for learning more about the holiday

This short story is appropriate for intermediate and advanced classes - there are lots of examples of the passé composé and imparfait. 

What other teachers have said about this short story and French reading comprehension activity:

"This resource adds a specific flavor and cultural experience to the normal holiday information. My kids loved learning about this side of the Christmas tradition."

"One of my favorites. Students enjoyed this so much. Looking forward to using again next year. Merci!"

"Thank you for this reading activity with follow up worksheets. It allowed an opportunity to discuss cultural elements as well as a holiday reading."

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Make learning about holidays in France interesting with this no-prep digital escape game.  The game includes access to a website where your students will hunt for the keys to unlock a set of locks.  Students will need to read the clues very carefully and watch videos, visit websites, and read texts to find the information they need to win the game.  Very easy to use - just send your students to the website and let them work!  Students can play individually or in teams.

Digital escape games are a fun way to start a unit, or to review at the end of a unit.  They can also be used to learn about a cultural or historical event.  This game will have your students reading carefully and paying attention to the smallest details in order to complete the challenge and unlock the locks.  

This item includes:

• Access to a website where your students can play the game
• Complete teacher's guide to playing the game
• Answer key so you can help students if they get stuck!

Your students will enjoy learning without even realizing that they are learning!  The challenging game format will get them excited about finding the code to unlock each lock - and the format of the clues for each lock will have them paying close attention - there's no way to solve the puzzles without being 100% focused! Some of the readings are in French, so this is best for 2nd year or later.

The included topics are:

• Armistice
• Chandeleur
• Le 14 Juillet
• Le 1 Avril
• La Toussaint

Prep is very easy - you just need to share the website URL with your students.  You may want to test the site before you use it, just to make sure nothing is blocked by your district.  As some of the clues can be challenging to unlock, you may choose to help your students with the trickier ones.  With the teacher guide, you will have the answer key - so you can help guide students towards the correct answer by giving them hints, or if you have limited time, you can adjust the game by reducing the number of locks they need to unlock - just give them the answer(s) to help the activity fit your time constraints.

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This French reading comprehension unit will give your students the chance to learn about the sport of ice hockey, entirely in French!

It is 52 pages and has the following sections:

• 14 pages of intermediate-level reading about the topics of
• the sport, including:
• A winter sport (basic info)
• A Canadian sport? (historical info)
• A sport for everyone (sled/sledge hockey)
• Blind hockey
• Equipment
• Referees
• Professional players
• the Stanley Cup
• the best players of yesterday and today
• Penalties
• Positions

20 pages of full-color 8.5x11 printable vocabulary posters with photos:

helmet, socks, hockey pants, shoulder pads, elbow pads, stick, the Stanley Cup, net, puck, tape, leg pads, goalie glove, mask, blocker, skates, gloves, crease, jersey, whistle, referee. All of the words your students would need to know to talk about the sport!

10 pages of printable writing and comprehension activities. Writing activities include prompts for several levels (present tense, past tense, conditional tense). True and false activity, dice game board activity, and even some numbers and math practice activities - one with smaller numbers and one with larger numbers so you can use it for different levels.

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No matter what digital platform you are using, digital stickers can make things a little more fun for students! This set of 9 digital stickers featuring French phrases and a llama holiday theme will be a cute addition to your digital toolbox. Just copy and paste the image onto your student pages!

Petit Papa Noel is a French holiday classic. This activity packet will help you to use the song in your classes. It includes 2 cloze activities of the lyrics (one with and one without the vocabulary list) and a reading passage about the song and Tino Rossi. Also includes a list of links where you can watch various versions of the song.

This activity unit has information and activities to learn about the different winter sports. This French winter sports activities packet is especially timely with so many big international events taking place this year!

The unit includes:

 • 2-page reading about the different sports and athletes

• 15 printable 8X10 posters with the French term for each sport (including 2 versions of snowboarding - le snowboard and le surf des neiges)

• comprehension questions

• a vocabulary activity - name the activity pictured

• athlete dossiers - 16 different athletes from France and Canada - research their biographical information, what sport they do, what country they represent and what they've achieved. Includes a blank sheet so students can choose other athletes if desired. Includes social media links to athletes so you can follow them online.

• answer key to comprehension/vocabulary activity

• related videos and website links

With large upcoming international competitions taking place in 2022, it's the perfect time to learn about French winter sports activities. Your students can learn about sports that they may not have heard of before and follow the competitions.

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