Bring festive fun to your French lessons with this ready-to-teach Christmas (Noël) lesson, ideal for KS2–KS3 students aged 10–15. Highly engaging, low-demand for teachers, and perfect for cover.

This download includes a full PowerPoint lesson and two printable worksheets:

• a vocabulary grid worksheet where pupils translate key Christmas activities
• an image match-up sheet with Christmas icons to reinforce key vocabulary (elves, Santa, gifts, snowman, lights, reindeer, etc.)

Everything is designed to be clear, accessible and cover-friendly, with no preparation required.

1. PowerPoint Lesson (editable)

• A structured, step-by-step lesson featuring:

• Retrieval starter (vocabulary, connectives, grammar recap)

• Christmas vocabulary with matching tasks

• Whole-class whiteboard game with images

• Think–Pair–Share speaking prompts

• Reading comprehension with four characters

• Vocabulary hints (tôt, tard, en hiver, de la dinde, etc.)

• A trapdoor (trampille) speaking activity for sentence-building

• End-of-lesson speaking task with “7 lives” challenge

1. Worksheet: Noël Activities Translation Grid

• Students translate Christmas activities such as:
  décorer le sapin de Noël, chanter des chants de Noël, faire un dîner spécial, ouvrir les cadeaux, aller à la messe de minuit, etc.

1. Worksheet: Christmas Image Match-Up Sheet

• A colourful sheet with repeated Christmas icons (elves, Santa, presents, lights, snowman, tree, reindeer, fireworks/New Year sign).
  Perfect for:

• starter or plenary

• pair work

• quick-fire revision

Learning Objectives

To recognise and use French Christmas vocabulary

To understand simple opinions (j’aime / je n’aime pas) in context

To read and understand short festive texts

To talk about what people do at Christmas in French

To build simple sentences using activities and opinions