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CLASSROOM ACTIVITY
Here are several activities you can use in your classroom to celebrate the holiday season. They have been used successfully
with secondary and middle school students.
Deb Blaz
Angola High School (IN)
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VERB TURKEYS
Here is a great way to celebrate the
holiday, review verb conjugations, and attract positive attention to your language!
It works for every level.
Every year, I have students draw a verb
from a bowl, and then we make a special
"hand turkey" like they did in grade
school but with extra feathers so that we
can conjugate the verb.
1. Place your hand on a sheet of blank
paper and outline the thumb and
first two fingers ONLY.
2. Then, shift the hand so that the
thumb lies within the outline of the
middle finger, and trace around the
remaining fingers. Now there should
be an outline of the thumb plus six
3.
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5.
6.
fingers.
On each finger, write a subject pronoun: je, tu, il/elle/on, nous, vous, ils/
elles.
Then, draw a turkey face on the
thumb (beak, wattle, eye) and a wing
shape on the body.
On the wing, in LARGE print, write
the verb, and then on each feather,
write the correct form of that same
verb next to the subject on that
feather (in whatever verb tense you
choose for students to use.)
Then, illustrate the meaning of the
verb by either having the turkey do
something appropriate (for chanter,
a speech bubble with musical notes)
or giving the turkey an appropriate
accessory (example: for jouer au tennis, a tennis racket).
We post these in the hall, and students
flock around (pun intended) to look at
them and are often heard wishing they
could do these in their class.
Also, you might get a pleasant surprise
like I did last year. I had a student really
struggling in all his classes, and his turkey
was awesome! It was so great to be able
to give him real praise, and he got lots
of compliments on it. It really turned his
attitude around in class, and his grades
got better.
LETTRE AU PÈRE NOËL
Cher Papa Noël:
J'étais très (1) _______________________ cette année.
Parce que j'étais si (1) ____________________ il faut me donner
tout ce que je vous demande.
Cette année, je n'ai pas (2)__________________ ma sœur.
Je n'ai pas (3)_______________________ le chien, et je n'ai pas
(4) _____________________________ le (5) ______________________.
Je n'ai pas mis les (6) __________________ dans la (7)
___________.
Mais j'avoue que j'ai (8) __________________ les
(9)______________, et j'ai (10)___________________________ les
(11) __________________à l'école et j'ai (12)_____________________
Maman et Papa.
Et je dis toujours "Merci, tu es (13)_________________"
Voici une petite liste des (14) _____________ que je voudrais:
• Une (15) __________________ (16) ___________________
• beaucoup de (17) ___________________
• un grand (18) ________________________
Ne les mets pas sous le/la (19) ____________________________.
Mets-les dans le (20)_____________________ près de la
(21)_______.
Grosses bises et à bientôt!
(22) _______________________
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Adjectif ___________________
Verbe d'action (participe passé)
_____________________
Verbe d'action (participe passé)
_____________________
Verbe d'action(participe passé)
______________________
nom (m.)___________________
nom (pl.) ___________________
nom (f ) ____________________
verbe d'action (participe passé)
______________________
nom (pl.) _____________________
verbe d'action(participe passé)
______________________
nom (pl.) _________________
verbe d'action (participe passé)
______________________
adjectif _____________________
nom (pl.) ___________________
nom (f )______________________
adjectif (f ) ___________________
nom (pl.) ___________________
nom (m)_____________________
nom _______________________
nom (m)._______________________
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Votre nom ___________________
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SUDOKU D’HIVER
snow
flake
écharpe
patin à
glace
vent
rhume
écharpe
vent
rhume
gants
pin
luge
wind
rhume
patin à
glace
flocon de
neige
snowman
écharpe
écharpe
luge
sled
gants
vent
vent
bonhomme de
nege
scarf
bonhomme de
neige
pin
pin
bonhomme de
neige
gants
gloves
pin
flocon de
neige
patin à
glace
cold
luge
Rules : Each nine-box unit will have all nine words in it, each used only once. Also, each row, vertically and horizontally, will have
all nine words, each used only once. See me when you have a solution!!
un luge
un pin
un bonhomme de
neige
un flocon de neige
le vent
le patin à glace
une écharpe
des gants
un rhume
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SUDOKU DE NOËL
mistletoe
réveillon
étoile
crèche
Père
Noël
rois
mages
gui
sapin
roi mages
holiday
dinner
étoile
ange
crèche
sapin
réveillon
ange
crèche
sapin
Yule log
cake
Père
Noël
réveillon
sapin
rois
mages
ange
étoile
gui
angel
crèche
Père
Noël
réveillon
Nativity
Scene
réveillon
3 kings
sapin
Père
Noël
rois
mages
Père
Noël
Père
Noël
bûche de
Noël
bûche de
Noël
réveillon
ange
ange
réveillon
étoile
Rules : Each nine-box unit will have all nine words in it, each used only once. Also, each row, vertically and horizontally, will have
all nine words, each used only once. See me when you have a solution!!
un ange
une étoile
un sapin
le Père Noël
le gui
le réveillon
les rois mages
une bûche
une crèche
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