5 ACTIVITIES TO CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR IN FRENCH CLASS
New Year is an exciting time for everyone, and what better way to celebrate than by incorporating it into your French class? Here are 5 activities to help you ring in the new year with your students:
1. French New Year's Traditions: RESEARCH PROJECT
Le Réveillon is a traditional French feast that takes place on New Year's Eve. Have your students research the history of this event and the traditional foods that are served with this fun research project. You students will have to RESEARCH ONLINE to answer specific questions about each New Year's tradition.
It includes the following topics:
- New Year's eve dinner
- Se mettre sur son 31
- Kissing under the mistletoe
- Street parties
- Champs Elysées
- New Year's greetings by the president
- New Year's resolutions
- New Year's cards
- Les étrennes
2. Les Cartes de Voeux: New Year's cards to friends and family
In France, it's common to send out New Year's cards to friends and family. Have your students create their own cards, complete with a message in French. Here are some DIY ideas. I personally love pop up cards!
3. French New Year's Craft : My Vision Board en français
Looking for a fun and engaging French activity to help your students set goals and start the new year off on the right foot?
Look no further than our exciting Vision Board Poster ALL IN FRENCH! With our easy-to-use workbook, your students can answer thought-provoking questions and get inspired to create a beautiful and intentional vision board that will help them achieve their dreams.
Whether they're aiming for academic success, personal growth, or anything in between, our Vision Board Poster is the perfect tool to help them get there. So why wait? Give your students the gift of goal-setting and watch them soar to new heights in the new year!
4. Les Résolutions: french New Year windsock
Discuss the concept of New Year's resolutions with your students and have them write their own resolutions in French. Encourage them to set language learning goals, such as mastering a new verb tense or learning new vocabulary words.
With this windsock activity students will follow simple steps to write in French their New Year resolutions/goals, color, cut, and glue these colorful windsocks. Makes a great decoration as a boarder around your classroom walls. Perfect for French Immersion and Core French students.
5. January French conversation task cards for the french class
Here is a fantastic New Years/January activity! These speaking and writing task cards are suitable for French beginner and intermediate levels. They are the perfect way to use pictures to prompt authentic conversation and French vocabulary development.
Speaking in a new language can be very intimidating, but when you do it in a fun and engaging way, students will quickly begin to get over their fear and try to speak.
The task cards are great to use as a daily warm-up.
These activities are sure to get your students excited about the New Year and help them practice their French language skills at the same time. Bonne année!