I hope your students enjoy this colourful Halloween PowerPoint which I have created using some eye-catching animations!

Expressions:

Un fantôme.
Une citrouille.
Une chauve-souris.
Un monstre.
Un vampire.
Un squelette.
Un extra-terrestre.
Une sorcière.

The first slide encourages the students to actively engage with the new vocabulary: working in teams, using their prior knowledge, knowledge of other languages and using a process of elimination to figure out the meanings. They then discuss the pronunciation and question each other before the teacher checks with the whole class.

The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill.

The next section of slides have multiple choice questions.

Then there are "what's missing?" slides.

The final slide has pictures of all the phrases. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If its the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins!

2 sets of Halloween Matching Cards. French and pictures.
Set 1 vocabulary:

Un fantôme.
Une sorcière.
Un extra-terrestre.
Un squelette.
Un vampire.
Un monstre.
Une chauve-souris.
Une citrouille.

Set 2 vocabulary:

J’ai peur des fantômes!
J’ai vu une sorcière!
Je n’ai jamais vu d’extra-terrestre!
J’ai besoin d’un squelette!
Les vampires sont effrayants!
Mon petit frère est un petit monstre!
J’aimerais voir une chauve-souris!
J’ai mangé beaucoup de citrouilles.

You may choose to have different levels of challenge. For example,
Level 1 = match the cards (picture and French) and discuss the pronunciation.
Level 2 = match the cards and then have quick fire questions from French to English, whereby 1 student closes their eyes and their partner reads out the French cards which the student must translate into English from memory.
Level 3 = The quick fire questions are from English to French.

Following checking there are 2 fun games to play, either pelmenism or a game I learnt in Japan called Karuta. In Karuta the students put the picture cards to one side and spread out the French cards in front of them. I then say the English and the students compete to touch the correct French card first. Whoever touches it first wins the card. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. The students love this game!