Key Stage 4 French: December in France: Weather, sports, countries and holidays

Welcome to the twelfth installment and the final installment!

If you are looking to introduce Christmas cultural elements at IGCSE French level in your lesson, look no further!!

This installment explores the weather associated with December in France and it looks at some sport and introduces four different countries with the capitals and their prepositions.

The contained vocabulary is as follows:

Weather
Quel temps fait-il?
C’est quel mois? / Quel mois nous sommes?
C’est août
C’est quelle saison? / Quelle saison nous sommes?
C’est l’hiver
En hiver
Il gèle
Il est glacial / Il y a de la glace
Il y a une tempête de neige
Il tombe de la neige fondue (There is sleet)

Telling the temperature
Il fait combien de degrés?
Il fait moins dix degrés
Il fait moins quinze degrés

Cities
à Luxembourg / à Luxembourg-Ville
à Reykjavik
à Taipei

Countries
Feminine
l’Islande / en Islande

Masculine
Le Luxembourg / au Luxembourg
l’Antarctique / en Antarctique

Other
Taïwan

Landscapes
Le lagon bleu

Sport and activities
Faire des sports d’hiver

Other vocabulary
Un manchot
Un ascenseur
Le rez-de-chaussée
Un gérant d’hôtel
Un marché de Noël
Un renne
Le père Noël
Blotti(s) au chaud
La grotte de père Noël

Verbs followed by a preposition before an infinitive
Oublier de faire
Refuser de faire
Se plaindre

The verb ‘pouvoir’ in the conditional tense and reflexive verbs in the imperative form in all three forms (i.e. tu, nous and vous)

The powerpoint contains a story with questions in French with follow-up reinforcement activities and a translation quiz.

There is also an accompanying workbook which also contains the story with various different activities in the workbook.

This powerpoint contains the following materials:

Powerpoint
Accompanying workbook
Vocabulary handout with various sports, activities and countries
The verb 's’amuser’ in the perfect tense
Wordsearch on the countries and capitals with the prepositions
Battleships game worksheet in order to reinforce learning
Transcription of the listening activities
Audio file of the listening comprehension
A bingo sheet to review the vocabulary

Happy teaching and learning!