Christmas Workshop
Welcome to our Christmas Workshop!
Here we present the result of a group work we did in our E-learning class at the English Department at the University of Salzburg. We tried to compile a collection of useful links for Christmas activities in your English classroom.
Enjoy!
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"Christmas Polluted by Consumerism!"
Enjoy the perfect lesson plans at Sean Banville's "Breaking News English" website with a variety of Christmas topics. (Further links below). Detailansicht
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Northpole
Students can visit Santa´s hometown... They can send cards to a friend or a letter to Santa. Many games, stories (personalised Christmas stories) and teaching material. Detailansicht
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Santas.net
This page is full of christmassy stuff, but the rubric "Tradtions" is especially useful in class context: It's about what Christmas is like in different countries all around the world. Detailansicht
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Jingle Bells Quiz
Flash quiz about the lyrics of the song Jingle Bells: a gap filling exercise with multiple choice answers (sts. can find out the correct answers whithout knowing the lyrics by heart); distracters are well chosen (not too easy); trains grammatical items (tenses, word formation, prepositions, etc.) Detailansicht
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
This children book by Dr.Seuss is still worth reading and watching the wonderful drawings of the people in Who-ville. Meanwhile there are also Youtube films available (see links below). Definitely worth watching! Detailansicht
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Working with Christmas Songs
Beside many other possibilities, the website provides nice gap-fill activites for many famous Christmas songs which can be done online. Detailansicht
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Various Christmas Activities
On this website, there are some really nice ideas for Christmas activities with younger children, but also for a higher learning level. There are links to videos, pictures and other websites which are connected to the topic. You can also find jokes about Christmas there. Detailansicht
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Carol: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
A gap-fill exercise using the lyrics of the carol sung by Judy Garland. Detailansicht
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It´s Christmas Time!
Create your own Christmas card, decorate a Christmas tree or find out how other people around the world celebrate Christmas. Don't miss the Christmas jokes and riddles! Detailansicht
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Lesson Plans and Activities for Christmas
Here you find nice lesson plans and activities around Christmas for your classroom, such as reading comprehensions, speaking tasks, vocabulary and grammar worksheets, crossword puzzles, gap-filling exercises, facts and stories around Christmas. Detailansicht
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Christmas Traditions around the World
Here students can practice their reading skills while learning more about Christmas traditions in different countries. (England, New Zealand) Detailansicht
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Children's Christmas Games and Activities
This website offers some fun Christmas activities, explanations about Christmas and Christmas symbols. Furthermore some recipes, word search and word jumbles. Detailansicht
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Christmas in England - Overview
To get an overview about Christmas traditions in England students can talk/write about the differences in culture, customs and traditions between England and Austria. Detailansicht
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Find the ending to Mr. Bean's "Merry Christmas"
Teaching idea: The teacher shows the whole clip or only part of it. The students have to find an ending according to their phantasy. Can also be used for collective storytelling. Detailansicht
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"Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean" - and the Present ProgressiveTense
Mr.Bean (YouTube-Link - still love it!!!) could be used as a "tune into topic" or at the end of the last E-lesson before Christmas... Detailansicht
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some Christmas Carols and poems
Christmas poems and carols with lyrics... Detailansicht
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Christmas Activities
This website offers a variety of different activities for school. - Vocabulary exercises - Listening comprehensions - Webquests (How Christmas is celebrated around the world) - Dear Santa Letter Generator. Detailansicht