50 holiday activities for Teaching English We have loads of holiday related materials. Get a start on our Christmas page or in our resources. Also some nice full lessons in our Lessons In A Can or purchase hundreds of resources for the holidays in our store. Also you can subscribe to Digital Resources for one lifetime fee to get hundreds of thousands of lesson materials/ideas. However, since I'm busy making Christmas lists, thought I'd make a nice one to share with fellow teachers and inspire with a few things in my brain for teaching lessons related to Christmas. So here is my brain purge. Get all the 50 lists. 50 Holiday Activities for The English Language Classroom Make snowflakes and angels. 101 Questions about Christmas. Decorate the classroom. Write Christmas cards to a classmate. Write a letter to Santa Claus. Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Play Christmas carol “Pass The Paper”. Sing some Christmas carols. Simon Says. Watch the incredible short film: The Snowman. Go Christmas Shopping! Learn Christmas Vocabulary.
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Christmas Traditions, Christmas History, Christmas Around the World, The Christmas Story and Christmas Fun and Games! - whychristmas?com Christmas When did it start? Why do we have Christmas Trees? Who is Santa Claus? Learn about the history of this festive holiday. <A HREF=" Christmas is on Thursday, December 25, 2014. Here's a chart that shows what day Christmas is celebrated from 2012 - 2022. We have lots of kids games for Christmas. Play Christmas themed Jigsaw Puzzles, Mazes, Word Searches, and Strategy Puzzles. Free printable coloring book pages for kids of all ages. Share Christmas jokes with your relatives and friends to bring a smile on their face and brighten their day. If you are looking for children's books about Christmas, here are some great books, including Christmas picture books. Brighten up your Christmas dinner by making festive decorations for your dinner table. Wish your friends and family a Happy Christmas by sending a free musical postcard to someone you know! Make a wish list for Santa or write a thank you note on our Christmas stationery. Watch videos about Christmas.
Culture - How the English language became such a mess You may have seen a poem by Gerard Nolst Trinité called The Chaos. It starts like this: Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. In its fullest version, the poem runs through about 800 of the most vexing spelling inconsistencies in English. Attempting to spell in English is like playing one of those computer games where, no matter what, you will lose eventually. The problem begins with the alphabet itself. So what happened with English? Invasion and theft First, the greed: invasion and theft. Once the English tossed out the French (but not their words) a few centuries later, they started to acquire territories around the world – America, Australia, Africa, India. What does this have to do with spelling? Lazy tongues Adding to the greed is the laziness – or, as linguists call it, “economy of effort”. Sometimes sounds just change capriciously. Tongues and ears aren’t the only lazy things. And now?
Christmas Activities for Kids We've got well over 100 original Christmas colouring pictures at Activity Village, so we've got... Enjoy these new Christmas colour by number pages. Just print and follow the instructions! New this year, a small collection of our popular "colour by pattern" colouring pages with a... If a child makes the effort to colour a Christmas card by hand, the result will always be treasured... We hope you enjoy this huge (and ever growing) collection of Christmas printables - including free... Christmas is the perfect time to settle down to some good kids crafts: the days are short, the cold... Making Christmas cards for friends and family is a great excuse to sit down with your children for... We have collected together some fun Christmas origami models to enjoy with your kids. These colouring pages of various "characters" can be coloured, cut out and assembled to create a... Our Christmas Fuse Bead Patterns are a great craft activity for kids on long winter afternoons!...
Play Free Christmas Games - GoGo Christmas Games Inspiration from Ellen Degeneres Show: Never Have I Ever : present perfect I firmly believe that the way you present things to your students matters . From boring points of grammar to challenging speaking activities, there is always a way to get their attention. I am of the opinion that students learn much better if you completely discard from your teaching the idea of boring master classes where the only person in the room seems to be the teacher and choose instead a more interactive approach. I try hard not to forget this student -centred approach during the whole lesson . There is also something I try not to forget. Image by Michael Rozman/WarnerBros Skill: Speaking Level: B1 upwards Aim: using the Present Perfect to talk about experiences. You never know where and who you’ll get inspiration from! This hilarious speaking activity is fairly simple and requires little preparation . ♥ Tell them you are going to ask a question to the whole class . ♥ Ask them to answer your question by putting up the YES, I HAVE or I HAVE NEVER sign Do you want to try?
Christmas quiz Christmas worksheets, Christmas flashcards, printable Christmas games, Christmas cards, Christmas party supplies and lesson plans materials to print Christmas Flashcards Set 1: vocabulary: Santa Claus, a reindeer, a sleigh, a snowman, Christmas lights, a bell, an angel, an elf, a bow, mistletoe Free Christmas Song to download: DreamEnglish.com has written a version of Jingle Bells to match the vocabulary in the MES Christmas flashcards set one. It's a free download you can use in your classes. Check out the site and song! Got time? Make your own Christmas worksheets: bingo, board games, crossword puzzles, dice, reading, writing worksheets and more! free Christmas listening tests, listening exercises, audio and worksheets Free Santa Game: Santa and his reindeer have been trapped in mazes!! Tools for Educators is an MES site with 10+ worksheet generators to make vocabulary and language building teaching materials, using the images from these flashcards. 123 Listening is a website developed by MES and Dream English. MES Games is an online ESL games site for students. Print old MES files: here are the old (2006~2014) christmas files