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Christmas Activities for Young Learners
Introduction
In the UK, Christmas is traditionally celebrated on the 25th December with a large family meal, lunch or dinner. Gifts are exchanged between family members. Children often receive presents from Father Christmas or Santa Claus, as well.
Activity 1
- Explain that people in the UK decorate their houses with these objects.
- Pupils match the words and pictures.
Activity 2 - Pupils name the items they can see in the living room.
- They then label the picture using the words from activity 1.
Activity 3 - Ask Do you have a Christmas tree? What do you put on it?
- Pupils decorate the Christmas tree using items from activity 1. They then complete the sentences.
- Ask volunteers to read their sentences out loud.
Christmas advent calendar - Explain that Advent is the time from 1st of December until Christmas Eve – it’s the Christmas countdown. An Advent calendar has 24 windows. A window is opened every day during Advent.
- Hand out materials and read the instructions out loud.
- Pupils follow the instructions to make their own Advent calendar. More advanced pupils could also write the names of the items they draw in the squares.
- Pupils can decorate the classroom with their finished Advent calendars or take them home.
Class activities - Decorate the classroom with chains of coloured paper, Christmas drawings and decorations.
- Do ‘Invisible Santa’ with the class. Write the names of all the children in the class on scraps of paper and put the pieces of paper in a hat.
Each pupil takes out a name. Pupils give a Christmas card or make a Christmas present for the classmate whose name they chose.
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