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THE WORDS
Father Christmas
Father Christmas
He got stuck!
He got stuck!
Brother John 2x
Going down
the chimney
Going down
the chimney
What bad luck!
What bad luck!
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The children learn the words of the song and sing it a few
times. Next, encourage them to work with a photocopy.
Remember to prepare the necessary number of copies in
advance. Ask the children to cut out the pictures, look at the
story and put the pictures in the right order. Next, children
number the pictures 1-6 and stick them in the right order into
their notebooks. Say the words of the text and encourage the
children to repeat them: Number 1. Christmas! Hurray! Ask
them to point to the pictures as you retell the whole story.
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We wish you a Merry Christmas is a popular Christmas song. In many schools, there are special Christmas concerts at this
time of year, when all the classes have to perform something special. We wish you a Merry Christmas is a tried and tested
Christmas classic, perfect for children of all ages. As well as singing you can also also focus on the active participation of
children in the event. Prepare copies of signs for each child. They can cut them out and decorate them during class or
at home. When they are ready, attach the signs to pencils so that the children can hold them during the show.
When singing for the first time, the children should hold their signs in front of them. When they sing: Merry Christmas!
they should hold the signs out and show them to the audience. When singing the song for the second time, they should
hold the signs up at the words Merry Christmas and your task is to encourage the audience to finish the lines. The last
line And a happy New Year is sung by everybody. When singing for the last time the whole procedure is the same but
the entire last verse is sung by everybody. Remind the students to smile and I am sure the performance will be a great
success and the audience will have fun, too!
The song may be practised in the same way in groups in the classroom (e.g. left side versus right side, boys versus girls etc.).
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Snowflakes are falling is an idea for children who already know numbers 1-10 and are able to read. Introduce the topic
of winter, snow and falling snowflakes. Prepare a set of picture flashcards and word flashcards. Say: Look! Snowflakes
are falling! Encourage the children to say: How many? Pick a word card, show it to the children and say: (Four!). Repeat.
Prepare one set of cards per student and encourage them to play in pairs.
My students love playing memo in pairs. The numbered cards with the snowflakes are great to play the game. Pairs of
children use one set of cards. All the cards are spread out face down on the desk. The object of the game is to turn
over two cards and try to find a matching pair (i.e. a pair with the same number of snowflakes on each card). Students
take it in turns to turn over pairs of cards. If a matching pair is found, the student keeps them and has another go. The
game continues until just one card (zero) is left. The winner is the student with the highest number of matching pairs.
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ten
ZERO
six
seven
eight
two
three
five
one
Pearson Central Europe, December 2014
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Older students also like talking about Christmas so here is an interesting task for them a Christmas crossword puzzle!
Prepare the neccesary number of copies, one for each student. Prepare picture flashcards for yourself and introduce
or review the Christmas vocabulary. You can do it in an amusing way ask them to react to the words you say. They sit
down, look at the pictures you show and repeat the words, but when they hear a word starting with -s they must stand
up. The words starting with -s are: snowflakes, snowman, star and stocking. After that, distrubute the handouts and ask
children to do the crossword.
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TEACHERS FLASHCARDS
candy
cane
hat
tree
snowflakes
star
snowman
stocking
angel
reindeer
Christmas crossword
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EXTRA
Here is another Christmas version of Are you sleeping Brother John? Use it to introduce
a Christmas atmosphere to your classroom. When presenting the song, remember to tell
the children they should stand up for the words: Here I am!
Where is Santa?
Where is Santa?
Here I am.
Here I am.
Merry, merry Christmas.
Merry, merry Christmas.
Ho, Ho, Ho!
Ho, Ho, Ho!
There are still so many ideas but lets finish off with the last song
sung to the same melody:
Father Christmas,
Father Christmas,
Ho, ho, ho.
Ho, ho, ho.
Where is Santa?
Where is Santa?
I dont know.
Do you know?
This final version is great to practise with smaller groups. At the
beginning tell the children that there are different names for Saint
Nicholas in English he is also called Father Christmas or Santa. Ask the children
what he is called in their language. Prepare a Christmas toy, a little bell, a star or simply a Christmas picture that children
will pass on.
Student A sings the first verse of the song. The whole group pretends to be Santa and sings: Ho! Ho! Ho! Next, student
A continues singing and at the end asks the student next to them (student B) the question: Do you know? and hands them
the Christmas object you prepared. Student B can answer: I dont know! Repeat the song around the circle until the final
student asks you, the teacher, Do you know? At this stage you can say Yes, I do! and reveal a picture or figurine of Santa
that was hidden somewhere handy before the lesson (Dont forget to hide it before you start!). At this stage, perhaps
Santa could give out some little sweets to the children