http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/BELTAchristmas

1. Christmas and New Year
Activities
Sandy Millin
Director of Studies, International House Bydgoszcz, Poland
Sunday 13th December 2015, BELTA webinar
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/BELTAchristmas
Have a pen and piece
of paper ready for
later!

2. Vocabulary
 http://bit.ly/christmasquizlet

3. Wordsearch
Word jumble
Answers
http://bit.ly/christmasvocabwordsearch
http://bit.ly/christmasvocabwordsearchanswers

4. Christmas in the UK
http://bit.ly/christmaspicturereading

5. After reading…
 How do you celebrate Christmas in your family?
 What is similar to the UK? What is different?
 Are there any British Christmas traditions you’d like to
try?

6. Christmas in other countries
 What do you know about Christmas in other
countries?
 When do people celebrate?
 What do they eat?
 What do they do?

7. What’s in the stocking?
 It must be…
 It could be…
 It might not be…
 It can’t be…
 Do you think it’s…?
because…
Taken from: http://hiveofactivities.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/whats-in-the-stocking/
(short link: http://bit.ly/eglstocking)

8. Christmas jokes
 What is a mum’s favourite
Christmas carol?
 Who is Santa’s most famous
elf?
 What do you call Santa Claus
when he doesn’t move?
http://bit.ly/christmasjokes
 Silent Night
 Elfvis
 Santa Pause

9. Christmas speaking bingo
 A sample question: Who do you normally buy
presents for?
 http://bit.ly/christmasspeaking
 Student A: choose a card and show it to your team
 Others in the team: choose three words you think they
will say when discussing the question. Content words,
not grammar words!
 Student A: speak about the topic for 30 seconds.
Other students cross off words they hear.

10. Head drawing
You walk into the living room. There is a Christmas tree
to the left of the fireplace. Above the fireplace there are
two stockings. On top of the Christmas tree there is a
star. There are baubles on the Christmas tree. There
are lots of presents under the tree. There is a table in
front of the fireplace with cookies and milk for Santa and
a carrot for his reindeer.

11. Head drawing
 Put your paper on your head (lean on a book if you
need to)
 Listen to the text and draw what you hear. Your paper
must stay on your head!
 Compare your paper with your partner.
 Can you remember the text?

12. New Year Traditions
 ‘Dinner for One’, the 18-minute story
of James the butler serving a
birthday dinner to Miss Sophie and
her dead friends, while getting
drunker and drunker, is shown in
many German-speaking countries on
New Year’s Day. It’s in English, but
most native speakers have never
heard of it!
 What do you remember?
 In some Spanish-speaking
countries, people believe that if
you take your empty suitcase for
a walk around the block at
midnight on New Year’s Eve,
you’ll travel to somewhere far-
flung and exotic in the next year.
 In South Africa and Italy, some
people celebrate by throwing
old, broken or unwanted
furniture out of their windows
to signify a fresh start.

13. New Year’s Resolutions
 Extend with Motivation
Stations:
http://bit.ly/motivationstations
 Do you make New Year’s
Resolutions?
 Do you stick to them?
 List five popular resolutions.
 How can you make them more
realistic?

14. Not enough?
http://bit.ly/christmaslinks
http://bit.ly/newyearlinks

15. Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year!
Sandy Millin
Director of Studies, International House Bydgoszcz, Poland
Sunday 13th December 2015, BELTA webinar
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/BELTAchristmas