8th Grade Holidays/Seasonal Cultural Activities

Get a full year's worth lessons and activities for first year French. These French units and resources include everything you need to teach and practice the typical things taught in a level one French course.

Teaching from a textbook can get boring, and sometimes textbooks simply don't give enough practice to learn vocabulary and grammar. Maybe you would rather focus on communication, and you plan to use a comprehensible input approach, but your textbook doesn't really work for that. This French curriculum bundle will give you everything you need to have structure, variety, and practice in your level one French classes.

This level 1 French curriculum Bundle Includes:

• 8 full units using comprehensible input - cover the same material as most first year French textbooks but using the language with repetition and context.
• 36 Digital games to practice vocabulary and grammar
• 19 Digital escape games to learn about the culture of the Francophone world
• 12 Non-fiction CI lessons - learn about interesting topics using sheltered language and grammar, with lots of repetition and a focus on comprehensibility
• 12 CI short story lessons - cute stories with very limited vocabulary - each story includes story retell and comprehension activities.
• 3 Interactive notebook pages for some of the biggest grammar points in first year.
• 5 grammar lessons with PowerPoints to teach some of the most basic French grammar - subject pronouns, adjectives, ER, IR and RE verbs

Use the full units as the backbone of your instruction, and the digital games will give students extra practice with the vocabulary and grammar points. For fun, you can spice it up a bit with an escape game, short story, or non-fiction lesson every so often.

The French bundle includes the following items:

Digital escape games:

L’Armistice/Le jour du Souvenir

Cathedrals of France

France

French Holidays

Mardi Gras

Paris

Joyeux Noel

La Recette perdue

La Toussaint

Le cinq mai

Loire valley châteaux

Mbappé is Missing!

Mont Saint Michel

Save Notre-Dame

The French-speaking world

Trouvez l’espion

Belgium

Quebec Province

Valentine’s Day

Non-Fiction CI lessons - each lesson includes a PowerPoint, story script, and comprehension activities to do after you've gone over the content.

La ville de Paris

Lafayette

Thomas Pesquet

French Food

Le lycée

Le TGV

La Martinique

Francophone Africa

D-Day

The Eiffel Tower

Notre Dame

Joan of Arc

CI Short stories - each story has specific targeted structures/vocabulary that is used over and over again to build acquisition. Includes post-reading activities and links to video version of the story.

J’ai mal!

Le Grand Chien

Le pantalon moche

Tu sens mauvais!

L’homme invisible

Le mauvais chef

Marc a faim

Le Cadeau parfait

La pomme de terre seule

Le Président Américain

Le Monstre sous le lit

Tu conduis mal!

Foldable interactive notebook pages

Big 4 irregular verbs

Foldable regular verbs

Foldable vocabulary pages

Digital games

Digital games can be played in PowerPoint or Google slides. Play together as a class using projection on a smartboard, or individually! Games are self-correcting.

Present tense irregular verbs

Present tense regular verbs

Adjective agreements

Ce and quel

ER verb conjugation

Être

IR verbs

Irregular verbs

Possessive adjectives

RE verbs

Vouloir, pouvoir, devoir

Numbers

Irregular adjectives

Clothing

Food

Adjectives

School supplies

House and furniture vocabulary

Question words

Body parts

Fruits

Vegetables

Professions and jobs

Ce, cet, cette, ces

Quel, quelle, quels, quelles

Connaitre and savoir

Un une des de d’

Telling time

Avoir conjugations and expressions

Halloween vocabulary

Thanksgiving vocabulary

Christmas vocabulary

Fruits and vegetables

Clothing

Mardi Gras

Valentine’s Day

Comprehensive CI units

Each unit includes a PowerPoint, printable activities, teacher planning guide, assessments, and a video version of the unit story.

Unit 1 : Bonjour !

Unit 2 : J’aime

Unit 3 : Le lycée

Unit 4 : On va sortir

Unit 5 : Ma famille et mes amis

Unit 6 : Les achats

Unit 7 : Bon appétit !

Unit 8 : J’habite ici…

Grammar lessons

Each targeted grammar lesson includes a PowerPoint, printable activities, reading based on the grammar lesson and answer key.

subject pronouns

regular adjectives

ER verbs

IR verbs

RE verbs

Make learning about French culture and history interesting with this no-prep French digital escape game bundle.  The games include 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 games
• Complete teacher's guide to playing the games
• Answer keys 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! 

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.

Make learning about French culture and history interesting with this no-prep digital escape game bundle.  The games include 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! 

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.

Are you looking for an engaging and low-prep way to teach Christmas and winter vocabulary in Spanish? Look no further! This time-saving bundle includes twelve different activities to teach and practice Christmas and winter terms with your Spanish students. These activities are perfect for filling in those weird spaces in your schedule before school breaks, after returning from breaks, during snow days, semester exams, and more!

By buying this bundle, you save 25% versus purchasing each activity individually!

Included in this value-packed bundle you will find:

• a Christmas vocab PowerPoint (38 slides!) and a winter vocab PowerPoint (32 slides!)
• 3 Christmas flyswatter games and 3 winter flyswatter games (one with terms in Spanish, one in both Spanish and English, and one with pictures)
• 5 Christmas word puzzles and 5 winter word puzzles (both sets include a word search, crossword, word jumble, mystery words/crack the code, and vocab matching)
• 1 Christmas domino game with 35 dominoes and 1 winter domino game with 30 dominoes (students match the Spanish term to a picture or the English translation)
• 1 Christmas bingo game and 1 winter bingo game (both sets include call lists, 40 Spanish-term bingo boards in color and the same 40 boards in B&W, plus 40 bingo boards with no text and pictures only in color)
• a Christmas vocabulary list and a winter vocabulary list(with a fill-in-the-blank student version and completed teacher version)

This bundle includes everything you need to practice and reinforce Christmas and winter vocabulary with your students in a fun, engaging way!

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Do you need engaging last-minute activities for your History or ELA students? Do you want to support diversity and foster an inclusive classroom community? Then download this Emergency Sub Plans Bundle for ELA, Social Studies, and History resource! These 10 unique WebQuests will keep students entertained as they learn about Halloween, Day of the Dead, Thanksgiving, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Martin Luther King Jr Day, Valentine's Day, St Patrick's Day, Easter and Memorial Day!

When you purchase this scavenger hunt resource, you'll receive the activity in both print and digital formats. The research questions provided allow for scaffolded instruction that can be completed individually, in pairs, or in small groups. You can even use this lesson as a fun team-building or gamified activity. Your students are guaranteed to learn more about the diversity in our country with this high-quality, no-prep resource!

Included in this resource:

• Halloween WebQuest - Learn the history and traditions of this fun holiday
• Day of the Dead, WebQuest - Also known as Dia de los Muertos, students will learn about this holiday celebrated in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries
• Thanksgiving WebQuest - Students will learn about the history behind many of our Thanksgiving traditions
• Kwanzaa WebQuest - Students will learn all about this annual celebration of African-American culture
• Christmas WebQuest - Students will learn about the history as well as enjoy finding all sorts of fun trivia about this international holiday
• Martin Luther King Day WebQuest - Students will learn all about MLK's life, his activism, and the profound effect he had on our country
• Valentine's Day WebQuest - Students will learn about this lovely holiday's history and the stories behind our customs
• St Patrick's Day WebQuest - Students will learn about St Patrick himself and the history behind the traditions
• Easter WebQuest - Students will learn all about both the history and modern customs associated with this holiday
• Memorial Day WebQuest - Students will learn about the history as well as modern and local activities and events
• Website evaluation form (located in each WebQuest)

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