10th Grade French Thematic Unit Plans

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

Other holiday products

• Digital Breakout - French Holidays

• Joyeux Noel - digital breakout game for int/adv French learners

• Les Aventures du Père Fouettard - a story for int/adv French learners

• Petit Papa Noel - activities to accompany the song

• Digital game to practice French Christmas vocabulary

• Le Nouvel An - comprehensible input lesson for French learners

Looking for a comprehensive French unit about going to the outdoor market in France? This resource has it all!

Resource includes:

- Five days of lesson plans

- LOTO game (fruits et légumes)

- Flashcard materials (use fruit & légume document)

- Vocabulary words & images for fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, and cheese

- “Au Marché” PowerPoint presentation with 48 colorful slides

- “Seasonal Eating” poster

- “Useful expressions at the Market” document

- 2 worksheets to be used for homework

- Skit assignments + grading rubric

- Optional language lab assignment (storyboard activity)

- 2 quizzes - One simple and one more advanced on fruits, vegetables, meats & fish, cheeses

French Listening Comprehension - Allons au Marché!

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