Christmas

Summary: This lesson combines English, origami, and Christmas into a fun cultural exchange activity.

Summary: This Christmas lesson is based on an Englipedia lesson, modified for the ability of my students (ichinensei).

After students have already learned numbers, colors, shapes you can use this lesson to review and get them into the holiday spirit (if your school is Ch

This activity is really simple: watch the Peppa Pig Christmas Special, and get the kids to do the worksheet while they watch. It went down a treat with my 4年生 kids!!

Students listen to the song "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and fill in the blanks on the attached worksheet. A word list can be added if needed.

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This is to teach students about the Christmas traditions of advent calendars and writing letters to Santa using the grammar point “I want/I would like”.

Bye bye man warm-up (Hangman but without the hanging references).

• Draw Christmas characters on the board (eg Santa, Rudolph, an elf, etc) beside a word or sentence blanks.
• Have

This is an activity to make Christmas words with alphabet cards.

This is a simple vocabulary activity that can be adapted to almost any lesson at elementary.

Preparation – 

This is a basic Powerpoint presentation about Christmas, suitable for ES 6 or JHS 1.

After the presentation there’s an easy quiz which I used for typhoon.

This lesson culminates in students practising writing letters to Santa Claus (or Father Christmas), cutting them out in the shape of their han