Description
These French Thanksgiving activities are a fun way to bring the holiday into your classroom with common foods and fall-themed words for an engaging way to celebrate l’Action de grâce with your core French or French immersion classes during the American or Canadian Thanksgiving season.
Activities require NO PREP from you, and are great for building a Thanksgiving unit, adding enrichment for fast workers, or for having a little bit of fun in class. All directions and activities are in French only so you can use this with FSL and immersion classes.
This student activity pack is designed for teaching Thanksgiving foods, talking about gratitude, and reviewing a little fall vocabulary. Specific American Thanksgiving history and content is NOT included. This pack is appropriate for American and Canadian Thanksgiving.
This resource includes:
- word wall to help support visual learners
- J’ai … qui a… speaking and listening game
- French Thanksgiving bingo
- No-prep worksheets and speaking activities for l’Action de grâce
- Thanksgiving write the room activity
This student worksheets include the following pages for teaching and practicing vocabulary:
- printable vocabulary list -See preview for complete list of words.
- Vocabulary activities – sentence completion, fill in the blank, matching, dans mon assiette drawing and writing activity for beginners
- Word puzzles (crossword, word search, word scrambles)
- scrambled sentences
4 activities for French speaking practice:
- Find someone who – using present and passé composé
- Face à face for vocabulary practice – perfect for beginners
- Preferences comparison activity – perfect for beginners
- Partner interview and paragraph summary – perfect for intermediate students
Also includes a variety of writing prompts for beginning and intermediate students.
This French Thanksgiving unit includes the following resources:
- French Thanksgiving worksheets
- French Thanksgiving Bingo
- Thanksgiving word wall
- Thanksgiving write the room
- Thanksgiving J’ai qui a
Teachers love the resources in this bundle! They say:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “We used these activities in class the day before Thanksgiving break and they kept the kids engaged and on task the whole period. They were a great way to get the kids speaking french on a usually chaotic day.” – about the worksheets
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students loved this game. They needed the version with the words printed on it but we played it several times and they like it.” – about the j’ai…qui a….
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Loved this bingo set-it works great with fall vocabulary as well. It’s a great resource to have and the students always love playing!” – about the bingo game
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Awesome resource! Great variety, handouts look awesome, lots here! Highly recommend.” – about the worksheets
✔️Originally reviewed on TpT.
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Paige W. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTGobble Gobble
While Thanksgiving isn’t a huge holiday in Canada, my students were still excited to celebrate and learn about it! This resource was perfect for their needs.
Edna G. (verified owner) –
Originally reviewed on TPTGreat way to learn the Thanksgiving vocabulary. My students love to play bingo. I use the visuals to decorate our school French bulletin board.
Thanks!