Christmas 6th Grade

1. LEVEL
Third cycle (6 th grade)

2. TIME OF SESSION
Four periods of class, one week before Christmas.

3. OBJECTIVES
3.1.General
- To recognize the communicative value of learning a foreign language,
showing a positive attitude of understanding and respect for other languages
and cultures.
3.2.Specific
- Students will be able to increase their understanding of and compare
Christmas customs in English speaking countries.
- Learn the lyrics and music of popular Christmas Carol and sing it.
- Experience and extract information from the song in the past tense.
- Interact with other cultures.

4. METHODOLOGY
The methodology used should be suitable to a communicative approach to teaching
English as a foreign language. That is, taking into consideration the age, ability and
needs of the students, as well as the criteria specified in the overall objectives of the
course, the EFL teacher should apply leaning strategies which are based on learning by
doing, i.e., task oriented strategies. The tasks required elicit a participative attitude on
the part of the learners and a guiding role on the part of the teacher. Additionally, the
teacher should help the students to learn both to think and to do in the target language.

5. THE TEACHING UNIT: SPECIFIC CONTENTS

Conceptual:
- vocabulary (Specifics words from the song and Christmas words)
- phonological aspects (practise the pronunciation of the consonant –r-).
Procedural:
 - Christmas environment.
- warm-up activities
- listening tasks
- Productive activities
Sociological aspects:
- Curiosity for different customs.
- Respect for different cultures.

6. ACTIVITIES AND TASKS

6.1.Brain-storming: The students (SS) say any English words they know which are
related to Christmas.
6.2.The teacher (T) shows them how to make a calendar of events.
6.3.SS work in groups (four to five people) and make one calendar for each group.
6.4.Using a cassette recorder, T plays Christmas carols while SS work with the
calendars.
6.5.SS hang their calendars on the walls and T uses them to go over the meaning of
words.
6.6.T plays the song Rudolph the red-nose Reindeer and while SS listen carefully.
6.7.SS read the lyrics of the song with missing words (listening task).
6.8.By listening and discussing SS find the missing words and start memorizing the
lyrics (day by day).
6.9.T gives SS a text from “Mary’s Diary” which tells what Mary did last
Christmas.
6.10 Using their own native language (L1), SS discuss in how the Christmas
customs narrated in Mary’s diary compare with customs in Spain.
6.11 At the end of the short-term series, the classroom is decorated. SS give
each other presents and they sing together the song “Rudolph the red-nose
reindeer”.

7. MATERIALS
- A cassette tape of the song “Rudolph...” and a cassette recorder.
- Wrapping paper, glue, scissors, coloured markers and optional material
(tacks, staplers, etc.).
- A textof Mary’s diary talking about Christmas customs in her country.
8. FINAL TASK
SS write about what they did last Christmas: The pages will go into a class diary
that everyone can read.
9. EVALUATION

Communicative Crossword

If you choose to try the communicative version, follow these steps:

1. Put students in pairs, and label them A and B

2. Give out the A handout to the As and B to the Bs.
3. Tell students that they MUST NOT look at each other's worksheet.
4. They have to work together to complete the crossword in English.
5. Student A has all the "across" clues and student B has all the "down" clues.
6. Student A reads a clue to student B and they try to figure out what the word
could be, they then use the letters to get ideas about what the connecting words
could be. This is where the ordinal numbers (the 6th letter is an "r" etc.)

Note: This activity works best as revision as it might be too difficult for young learners if
they haven't encountered these words before.

The winning team is the team that completes the crossword correctly first.

Key:

1. Chimney 6. Presents
2. Decorations 7. Turkey
3. Wrapping paper 8. Santa Claus
4. Reindeer 9. Angel
5. Christmas 10. Star

Plan a Magical Christmas

This is another Christmas themed lesson plan for intermediate (B1+) teenagers and
adults. Students will be required to use smartphones, tablets or laptops as part of
the activity.

Warmer

Tell your partner about your most memorable Christmas ever.

Report back in open class.

Planning the perfect Christmas

Put students in pairs or groups of 3. Write a range of amounts of money on small

pieces of paper, for example: €100, €1000, €10,000, €100,000. Put the pieces of
paper in a hat, each team picks a piece of paper.

The amount of money that they have picked is their budget for the magical
Christmas they are going to plan. They should plan a week of activities, from
Christmas Eve to New Year's Eve. Students can use the internet to research what
they are going to do with their money: book flights to or a hotel in an exotic
destination, book tables in fancy restaurants, organise interesting activities etc. The
only rule is that they can't go over budget AND they must speak in English the
whole time, project the language for making and responding to suggestions below
onto the board.

To be nice to the group that drew the €100 you could let them come up with a
money making scheme such as baking and selling cookies in order to get more
money. Encourage them to use their imagination, be creative and also, decide what
the most important thing about Christmas is to them. Students have 20-30
minutes to plan.

Language
Making suggestions Accepting suggestions Rejecting suggestions

How/what about …ing…?

Why don’t we…?

That’s a terrible idea.
That’s a great idea!
We could….
Are you joking?
Good idea!
Shall we…?
Don’t be silly.
I was thinking the same thing.
I reckon/think we should/ought
I’m not sure about that.
to…. You took the words right out my
mouth.
It’ll be too cold/expensive etc.
What do you think about …ing?

Let’s…
Presentations

After 20-30 minutes students present their plans to the rest of the class and explain
their reasons:

"We've decided to spend Christmas in Germany because we want to visit the

famous Christmas markets"

After all the presentations, students vote on the plan that they like best.

Actividad muy buena gamificada.

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