PRIMARY FRENCH CHRISTMAS POSTERS FLASHCARDS

**PRIMARY FRENCH CHRISTMAS KS3 CHRISTMAS FLASHCARDS POSTERS FRENCH CHRISTMAS CLASSROOM DISPLAY **

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I love to give my learning environment a really French Christmas feel - even my older students appreciate it. With my younger learners, it’s not about learning all the French Christmas vocabulary (30 is too many for young beginners), it’s about giving them daily opportunities to engage with the French language through guessing and spelling games, pronunciation practices and so on. I’ve included a selection of both generic Christmas words, such as bauble and Christmas tree, as well as more Francophone-specific words, such as Père Fouettard and la galette des Rois.

The Christmas words are:

= the angels
= the Christmas stockings
= the Christmas tree
= Father Christmas/Santa Claus
= Father Fouettard
= the chocolate log
= the Christmas candy canes
= the crib/nativity scene
= the Infant Jesus
= The Three Kings/Wise Men
= the snowman
= the gingerbread man
= the fireplace
= the Christmas candle
= the carol singers
= the elves
= the Kings’ cake
= the Christmas baubles
= the snowflakes
= Santa’s sack
= Santa’s sleigh
= the reindeer
= the Christmas presents
= the holly
= the mistletoe
= the Christmas bells
= the Christmas wreath
= the Christmas star
= Saint Nicholas
= the Christmas twigs

It doesn’t matter if some of the words don’t feature in your immediate or even longer-term learning plan: the flashcards / posters provide learners with daily opportunities to engage with the written word in French, to develop their recognition and recall of individual words, to identify cognates and near-cognates, and to begin to link spelling with sound in French.

Use them as flashcards to introduce and practise language too - it’s a traditional and successful low-tech teaching method, which gives students a welcome break from the whiteboard - varying teaching methodologies in the language learning classroom is always a good idea, and I also encourage my students to take the role of the teacher too, which they find really motivating.

There are two backgrounds to choose from: blue winter or snow, so 60 posters / flashcards in total. They are in portrait A4 (8.5x11) format. I definitely recommend that you print on card stock and/or laminate for longevity - you’ll be able to display your French Christmas posters and use them as flashcards to introduce French Christmas words, as well as discuss similarities and differences in Christmas customs, for years to come!

MERCI BEAUCOUP ET JOYEUX NOËL !