Tefltecher’s Yuletide (B)Log
Here are five Christmas activities I’ve used over the last few years! Nothing very original I’m afraid, but then again Christmas isn’t, is it? Feel free to take your pick!
1. Personalised Christmas greetings from Santa
Get your students to send each other personalised Christmas greetings direct from Santa. Here’s an example message. You’ll find the website here.
A message from Father Christmas
2. Christmas questions
Put your students in pairs or small groups and ask them to discuss the following questions.
3. Christmas Wordle definition game
Put your students in two teams and give oral definitions of the items in the Wordle below. Students identify the words. Award points for correct answers.
Christmas Wordle
4. Retelling Mr Bean’s Christmas
Bean is Back! Take advantage of a whole new generation that don’t have the faintest idea who Mr Bean was!
Put your students in pairs. Student A watches 00:00 – 03:38 and describes what happens to student B. Student B then watches 03:38 – 08:00 and explains to student A. Pre-teach any vocabulary you feel necessary e.g. mousetrap, turkey, stuffing, cracker etc.
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5. The best Christmas song ever!
I make no apologies for this! George Michael is The Chosen One and your students should be informed even if their parents weren’t even a twinkle in their grandparents’ eyes in 1984! Gapped lyrics here (tell your students not to panic at the number of gaps in the chorus, they will hear it several times).
Thanks for the Christmas activities. You’re right about Mr Bean, I’d forgotton all about him until my own children discovered him recently. Now I’ve put a post-it on my computer “Dig out old Bean worksheets after xmas” It’s time for a revival.
Happy Holidays!
By: Louise on December 21, 2011
at 10:23 am
Thanks for dropping by, Louise … and yes, doesn’t time fly? What seems not too long ago, I got a “Oh no! Not him again!” when I played Mr Bean at Christmas. Now, I tend to get “Mr Bean? Who’s he?”
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
By: ij64 on December 23, 2011
at 8:24 am