High School - Christmas

[jellomando]

There are better Christmas lessons on waygook.org, but since my lesson happen to fall on the last week of classes, right before everybody left for the winter break, I just made a lesson around watching Christmas videos.

Christmas:

• Native Speaker introduces the concept of Christmas and brainstorms Christmas culture.   5 minutes.
• Native Speaker demonstrates North American Christmas culture with Christmas television show. 20 minutes.
• Native Speaker demonstrates European Christmas culture with Christmas television show. 20 minutes.

Notes:

• This was the last lesson of the term and nobody wanted to do any work.
• The girls like Mr. Bean. The boys like South Park.  I showed them both.
• I found all of the Christmas South Park videos but only used Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo since it seemed the most educational about Christmas (and it introduces the concept of the seasonal talking dung character).  The rest are here for future reference.

South Park (More information about my South Park source can be found here and here):

• EP1-10 Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo
• EP2-16 Merry Christmas Charlie Manson
• EP3-15 Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
• EP4-17 A Very Crappy Christmas
• EP6-17 Red Sleigh Down
• EP7-15 It's Christmas In Canada
• EP8-14 Woodland Critter Christmas

Merry Christmas Mr. Bean:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4

More information about my lessons can be found here.

[incognito84]

This is a basic lesson plan / PPT I made for my High School students. It's not my best (by far) but it's a work-in-progress and I plan on updating it when the next batch of students rolls in. It has a lot of "filler" which is what everyone needs during this time of year.

Lesson Style:

15 - 20 minutes

Lecture. Remember the PPT is just a guideline. I explain things on it using the chalkboard and my voice. Get an open dialogue going with the students on the material.

I do find that even my lowest level students were very interested in the content here. They really don't know much about Canuck Christmas. Reign it in, have fun!

Use candy during the quiz as a motivator! Explain that they will be quizzed for candy after the presentation, then they'll be all ears.

5 minutes

Worksheet (work side). If you have candy left over, award the five first groups to finish (I usually do groups of two, individual is fine as well of course).

10 minutes

Show Mr Bean video

Remaining time --> Find a Christmas crossword / Word find. With my beginner's class, this timed out perfectly with five minutes remaining to do their word search. If you have an advanced class, pad the Q&A PPT section a bit more (you shouldn't have to make any changes, just inferences).

Take it, use it, change it.

Mr Bean's Christmas is here: http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=pWtbJ1Uf-90

Google search an appropriate wordfind to add to the backside of the handout if you want.

Criticism is welcome.

[jigeha]

I know it's kinda late for this to be useful for anybody, but my high school kids have been loving this cloze activity with Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You."  They are very familiar with the song because it's in Love Actually, but they don't know the words beyond the title, really. After we finished the activity we watched the video, which is old, but cute, and Christmas-y. A few girls even tried to sing along with the video, reading off their lyrics sheet - so cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ymlnxMZkXA

Didn't take the whole period, obviously, but it was good filler. =)  Merry Christmas!

[shhowse]

Here is a link for a site that provides pre-made Christmas games. I tried out the jeopardy games on my classes and some of the information was difficult for them but overall they had a good time. You could always use them to gather questions for your own version of a Christmas game.
http://holidays.pppst.com/christmas/jeopardy.html

And here is another one with a presentation on general Christmas culture:
http://www.elcivics.com/esl-christmas.html

This site always has some great links for all kinds of levels and topics. I'm sure you can find something useful for Christmas lessons here: http://www.michellehenry.fr/christmas.htm

[lourencoliroy]

great links, thanks!

[deajeonmatt]

Christmas Powerpoint and Christmas Bingo.  Show the first ppt. and talk about the vocabulary words, then have the students fill out their Bingo sheet.  Use the second ppt. without words to play Bingo.  Rearrange slides in the second ppt. as needed to play. 

[chapathee]

lol, i think my girls would hate the christmas poo