Category Archives: French Festivals and Traditions

La chasse aux oeufs: free French teaching resource KS2/KS3

Can your pupils design ‘la chasse aux oeufs’ – an Easter Egg Hunt game? Challenge them to play the game they design but only to speak French.

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National Foreign Language Week (US): 5–11 March 2012

It was back in 1957 that the National Council of Alpha Mu Gamma was inspired by its then National President to make the United States aware of the need for and importance of foreign language study through the celebration of NFLW. … Continue reading

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La Chandeleur, Pancake day: free French teaching resource

Do your pupils know that France has already had ‘Pancake day’ on 2nd February? Do they know why it is celebrated then?

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Christmas in Spain: free teaching resource

Sorry, not a holiday but some ideas to investigate how Christmas is celebrated in Spain.

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Free French teaching resource – Bastille Day, 14th July

We enjoyed a lot of bank holidays in April and May. What happens in other countries?

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