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Bring Anzac Day into your French classroom with this thoughtful, culturally sensitive resource designed for beginner French learners. Through two accessible French texts and a range of engaging activities, students explore both the history and the human meaning of Anzac Day — all while building key vocabulary and language skills.
What's inside:
Text 1 — Le Jour de l'Anzac — histoire et traditions introduces students to the origins of Anzac Day, the Gallipoli landing of 1915, the dawn service, poppies, and the phrase N'oublions jamais — Lest we forget — in simple, vocabulary-rich French.
Text 2 — Trois voix presents three first-person perspectives from Liam (whose great-grandfather fought at Gallipoli), Aunty Cheryl (a Noongar woman honouring the often-forgotten contributions of Indigenous soldiers), and Sofia (a Greek-Australian student learning about her adopted country's history).
Activities include:
True or False comprehension (Vrai ou Faux)
Short answer questions in English
Match the person activity
Find the French vocabulary task
Partner speaking task with sentence starters
Guided writing scaffold for a French paragraph (Mon paragraphe)
Exit ticket and self-assessment checklist
Also included:
A vocabulary mat with 16 key Anzac Day terms in French and English
A full teacher answer key
Australian Curriculum links: AC9LFR8C01 · AC9LFR8C03 · AC9LFR8U03
PDF and editable Word document included
This resource is:
Fully aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Languages — French, Years 7–8
Culturally sensitive — acknowledging Indigenous soldiers and diverse Australian experiences
Print-ready with all instructions written in English
Suitable for one lesson or as a homework task
Bring Anzac Day into your French classroom with this thoughtful, culturally sensitive resource designed for beginner French learners. Through two accessible French texts and a range of engaging activities, students explore both the history and the human meaning of Anzac Day — all while building key vocabulary and language skills.
What's inside:
Text 1 — Le Jour de l'Anzac — histoire et traditions introduces students to the origins of Anzac Day, the Gallipoli landing of 1915, the dawn service, poppies, and the phrase N'oublions jamais — Lest we forget — in simple, vocabulary-rich French.
Text 2 — Trois voix presents three first-person perspectives from Liam (whose great-grandfather fought at Gallipoli), Aunty Cheryl (a Noongar woman honouring the often-forgotten contributions of Indigenous soldiers), and Sofia (a Greek-Australian student learning about her adopted country's history).
Activities include:
True or False comprehension (Vrai ou Faux)
Short answer questions in English
Match the person activity
Find the French vocabulary task
Partner speaking task with sentence starters
Guided writing scaffold for a French paragraph (Mon paragraphe)
Exit ticket and self-assessment checklist
Also included:
A vocabulary mat with 16 key Anzac Day terms in French and English
A full teacher answer key
Australian Curriculum links: AC9LFR8C01 · AC9LFR8C03 · AC9LFR8U03
PDF and editable Word document included
This resource is:
Fully aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Languages — French, Years 7–8
Culturally sensitive — acknowledging Indigenous soldiers and diverse Australian experiences
Print-ready with all instructions written in English
Suitable for one lesson or as a homework task