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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

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“It was fun to read and learn about holidays. The students enjoyed the exercises.”
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