9th Grade Halloween Internet Activities

Make learning about la Toussaint 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.

This game about la Toussaint is in English so even your level 1 students can enjoy learning about the holiday and other spooky legends in France.

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! 

Topics in this game include:

• chrysanthemums and la Toussaint
• Pere Lachaise cemetery
• haunted castles
• Le Manoir haunted house
• the Paris catacombs

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.

Note that if you are playing this on Oct 31/Nov 1, the sites get VERY busy. I have made many backup sites, but even those may get slow at times. Also, the French source sites may get overwhelmed on certain dates as well, but there is nothing I can do about that.

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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.

Just in time for the fall season, this French autumn activities bundle will let you celebrate the cooler weather and spooky times. Includes a variety of printable and digital/distance items. Whether you teach level 1 or advanced French, there will be something for your students in this bundle.

Included in the French autumn bundle you will find a nice variety of short stories, non-fiction readings, games and activities. It’s a mix of print and digital items - so if you’ve never tried assigning a Google drive or Boom cards activity before, this can be a way to try it out.

Short stories in the bundle - great for sub plans:

• Un Dîner Spécial - a printable short story for Thanksgiving. Follow the adventures of a crew of animals who have misunderstood the holiday in a very bad way.

• La Guerre du Pumpkin Spice Latte - a short story about the real reason why pumpkin spice flavoring is found everywhere this time of year. Includes a Google drive AND print version of the story.

• Les Zombies Attaquent - a fun short story about - what else? - zombies!  It’s a great review for the imparfait and passé composé.  Includes a Boom AND print version of the story.

• Frankie le Vampire - A fun short story about a vampire who isn’t really very good at being a vampire.

Digital activities:

• Halloween digital stickers - A set of 12 digital stickers that you can use wherever you like - One Note, Google drive, or any digital platform that allows png images.

• Digital magnetic poetry - A Google drive activity with “magnets” of French words that students can move around to make their own poems with a fall theme.

• Halloween vocabulary digital game - Includes 30 vocabulary words about the holiday - a fun, no-prep way to learn and practice the vocabulary.  Both a PowerPoint/PDF/Google drive version and a Boom version are included.

• La Toussaint digital escape game - A fun and challenging game for your students!  They will learn about some of the spooky things in French history as well as how the holiday of La Toussaint is celebrated.   No need to prep - just share the URL with your students!

• Thanksgiving vocabulary digital game - Includes 30 vocabulary words about Thanksgiving - a fun, no-prep way to learn and practice the vocabulary.  Both a PowerPoint/PDF/Google drive version and a Boom version are included.

• L'armistice digital escape game - Learn about the end of World War 1 and how the holiday is celebrated in different countries.

• Le Fantôme du Manoir - A digital game for the passé composé with avoir. Collect the objects and put them in the family tomb in order to remove a ghost from your new home.

Non-fiction readings:

• Sous Paris French reading - learn about the spooky things under Paris and the people who love to explore them.  Includes information about the catacombs.
• The Cursed Lighthouse - the lighthouse of Ténnevec off the coast of Brittany had a reputation for being haunted.  Find out what the real story behind it was.
• Père-Lachaise cemetery - Read about the final resting place of many Parisians and a major tourist attraction.

Writing activity:

• Thanksgiving writing prompts for French levels 1-4 - a variety of prompts that will allow all levels to write about what they are thankful for.

Mummies aren't just found in ancient Egyptian culture. Mummies have been found all over the world! In fact, the oldest man-made mummies are found in the country of Chile! Mummies can be naturally created or man-made. This web quest includes the different types of mummies and has 12 web questions including information on Bog Mummies such as Tollund Man, the Inca Mummies,the Taklamakan Desert Mummies of China, Otzi, the frozen mummy, the Chinchorro Mummies of Chile, the Egyptian mummies... and more. There are comprehension questions, a Did You Know? section, a teacher section with extension activities, additional links and the key. Great for a Friday activity, at Halloween time, or if you are studying ancient Egypt.

You may find this resource of interest:

Learn lots of fun facts about mummies and specifically the discovery of King Tut's tomb with this play based on the To Tell the Truth Game Show Format. Directions and a suggested YouTube Clip to show the idea of the game, comprehension questions, discussion questions and extension activities(and resources) are included. The biographical play meets several common core standards in social studies and language arts.

I really think your students will have fun with this play on King Tut! King Tut, A Reader's Theater Script

Mummies aren't just found in ancient Egyptian culture. Mummies have been found all over the world! In fact, the oldest man-made mummies are found in the country of Chile! Mummies can be naturally created or man-made. This web quest includes the different types of mummies and has 12 web questions including information on Bog Mummies such as Tollund Man, the Inca Mummies,the Taklamakan Desert Mummies of China, Otzi, the frozen mummy, the Chinchorro Mummies of Chile, the Egyptian mummies... and more. There are comprehension questions, a Did You Know? section, a teacher section with extension activities, additional links and the key. Great for a Friday activity, at Halloween time, or if you are studying ancient Egypt.

You may find this resource of interest:

Learn lots of fun facts about mummies and specifically the discovery of King Tut's tomb with this play based on the To Tell the Truth Game Show Format. Directions and a suggested YouTube Clip to show the idea of the game, comprehension questions, discussion questions and extension activities(and resources) are included. The biographical play meets several common core standards in social studies and language arts.

I really think your students will have fun with this play on King Tut! King Tut, A Reader's Theater Script

This BUNDLE is great for a unit of study on ancient Egypt. Included are the following six resources which you can also purchase separately.

1. Have students learn about Ramses the Great, pharaoh of ancient Egypt with this reading passage. Additional, there are several Did You Know? facts and comprehension questions. The teacher page gives additional links and the key. This could be used as a homework assignment, enrichment or as a bell ringer activity during a study on the area of Ancient Egypt.Click here to see a preview: Ramses: A Reading Passage

2.Covering ancient Egypt? I taught ancient Egypt for 32 years and would love to share some my notes, activities and resources I used with my students. There is also a 9 question webquest: Click here to see a preview: Egypt: Unit of Study

2. Play on King Tut(Lots of information on mummies and the most famous mummy of all!) Click here to see a preview: King Tut: A Reader's Theater Script

3. Review activity: Mystery Message solved using key vocabulary words about Egypt: Click here to see a preview: Egyptian Secret Message

4. Mummies aren't just found in ancient Egyptian culture. Mummies have been found all over the world! In fact, the oldest man-made mummies are found in the country of Chile! Mummies can be naturally created or man-made. This web quest includes the different types of mummies and has 12 web questions including information on Bog Mummies such as Tollund Man, the Inca Mummies,the Taklamakan Desert Mummies of China, Otzi, the frozen mummy, the Chinchorro Mummies of Chile, the Egyptian mummies... and more. There are comprehension questions, a Did You Know? section, a teacher section with extension activities, additional links and the key. Great for a Friday activity, at Halloween time, or if you are studying ancient Egypt. Click here to see a preview:

MUMMIES: A Webquest

6. Let’ Meet…Hatshepsut, A Reading Passage.With this biographical reading passage, students will learn about the first female Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. There is a Did You Know? section, comprehension questions and a teacher page with extensions and links.Click here to see a preview: Hatshepsut: A Reading Passage

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egyptians

mummies

King Tut