Holiday Season ELT Calendar
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It is my favourite time of the year! Christmas and New Year's is right around the corner, so time to start planning for the Holiday season. In this blog post you will find an ELT Christmas calendar. Why so early? Well, some of these tasks need a bit of preparation.I have suggested different types of activities which can be used with your students. Everything I have suggested can be accessed for free online. Some activities are short and others can take up a whole teaching hour! If you do not teach the same learners every day, then you can mix and match. If you do have the same learners, then you have an idea for each day of the week : D
Monday 1st of December
Christmas project. Get your learners to do research and make a project about Santa, Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer, Gingerbread men, the origin of the Christmas tree, the Holidays in different countires and so on. Put them in groups and give them ten days to complete their project. Once they have finished their project, they can give a poster presentation and you can decorate your class with the projects. If you or your students are tech savvy, why not make it a PowerPoint presentation? Don't forget to look at Tuesday the 11th.
Tuesday 2nd of December
Christmas gingerbread men streamers. Get a string of paper and get each student to draw a ginger bread man. Then cut out the men and make a hole on the top of the paper and hang it in the class.
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Wednesday 3rd of December
Time to make a Chritmas/ Happy Holiday card and write greetings in the card. Your students can make their own cards from scratch so bring out the paper, tinsel, colouring pens and the scissors. The sky is your student's limit. You can also find a website and use the templates there.
Thursday 4th December
HO-HO-HO Time to write a letter to Santa or get your students to write their New Year's resolutions!
Friday 5th December
Play Chritsmas Picture or word Bingo. There are many websites to go to and make your own different set of bingo cards
Monday 8th December
Time for some Christmas songs/ carols. Find a Christmas song you like, search for the lyrics and start singing with your students. My suggestion: Santa Claus is coming to town.
You better watch out
Tuesday 9th December
Secret Santa time. Write all your students' names and put them in a little bag. Then, ask each student to pull out a piece of paper. They must not reveal the name of the person that is on that piece of paper. Each student is that student's secret Santa.This means they must buy or make a present for their classmate. I would suggest you make some sort of guidelines. You can either suggest students buy something but give them a price limit or that all students make something for their classmate. Allow your students at least a week to make or buy the presents. Once all the presents are bought or made, the Secret Santa needs to put the recipient's name on the present ( also see December 19th).
Wednesday 10th December
Christmas word search. Get your learners to look for and find words related to Christmas. Depending on their age, you can choose hard or easy word searches. You can even give them a time limit to make it even more challenging for them.
Thursday 11th December
Poster presentation Day/ Powerpoint presentation Day (also see Monday the 1st).
Friday 12th December
Time for some Christmas songs/ carols. Find a Christmas song you like, search for the lyrics and start singing with your students. Suggestion: Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (reindeer)
Had a very shiny nose (like a light bulb)
And if you ever saw it (saw it)
You would even say it glows (like a flashlight)
And all of the other reindeer (reindeer)
Monday 15th December
Pin the nose on Rudolph. How do you play? Your students have to pin Rudolph's red nose onto his face. If you want to make it more fun, you can blindfold your students and tell them to turn round in circles for a few seconds. Once they are twirling for 6 seconds they can then pin Rudolph's red nose.
Tuesday 16th December
Christmas word snake. How is this played? Each student takes turns to write a word connected to holiday season on the board. The final letter of student A's word is the first letter of student B's word.
Christmas
Santa
Angel
Lantern
Wednesday 17th December
Holiday Season hangman. Time to play hangman with your students! The words again have to be related to the holiday season.
Thursday 18th December
How about watching a movie with your students? What you choose depends on their age and level.
Holiday season movie suggestions:
The Polar Express
Home Alone
Frosty the Snowman
Miracle on 34th Street
The Muppet Christmas Carol
A Charlie Brown Christmas
It is a wonderful life
Friday 19th December
Secret Santa Day (also see December 9th). The teacher has collected the presents and starts handing them out. The recipient student then guesses who bought/ made him the pressie.
Any other teaching days:
Carols+ Party= Happy teacher+ Happy students
Keep in mind that you students get to practice their English whilst doing all of these activities. If you want to add 'EFL' twists to the activities, you could make the Christmas carol singing activities into gap filling tasks. You can also ask your students to use the bingo words in the email they send to Santa or make them write a summary after they watch the video. The Secret Santa can be the production stage of a lesson on hypothesising and the ginger bread man can help you teach vocabulary connected to body parts or clothes.What you choose to do with this ELT calendar is up to you!!!
I hope you enjoyed this blog post. If you have any other suggestions, please add them in the comments section below so other teachers can read them!!!
You can download everything here
It is my favourite time of the year.docx
It is my favourite time of the year.docx
Dear reader, if you do any of the activities and have comments or pictures, please let me know. Some of my teacher friends have already shared pics of some of the activities on facebook and I will be making a post about them later on this month!! I would be really interested in seeing how these tasks went for you.
Till next time..........
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