Some Christmas stuff

Learning a language is also learning about the people who speak it, their culture, customs,  traditions...


First find out about  Christmas Traditions in Britain 

Then do these activities:

Christmas Word Puzzle

Christmas Vocabulary Quiz

Christmas Dinner Crossword
Christmas Shopping Word Search 

Christmas Word Search

Christmas Conversation


Finally practise your listening skills with these popular Xmas songs 
"Twelve Days of Christmas" Wordmatch Exercise 
"Last Christmas" Gap Fill Activity
"Let it Snow" Gap Fill Activity

Merry Xmas, guys!

This is  my Christmas gift for you all, some of my favourite Christmas songs. 

• Happy Christmas (war is over), by John Lennon & Here you can read the lyrics 

• Last Christmas by Wham & The karaoke version

• Do they know it's Christmas? by Band Aid (1984)  & Band Aid 20 version (lyrics)

• Santa Claus is coming to town by Bruce Springsteen   & By some children

• Please come home for Christmas by Eagles   &   By U2

•  All I want for Christmas is you By Mariah Carey (Great video!)  

• Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Frank Sinatra

• White Christmas by Bing Crosby (with lyrics)

Best wishes!

 

Don't miss Mº Jesús's newest post.

The digital story of the Nativity.

NA1 Mª Jesús's blog

As you know we're going to start File 2B, the topic it deals with is "Air Travel". Mª Jesús has posted a video on the recent events at Spanish airports. Click here to watch it. It's a great warm-up for the lesson. Have you ever had a similar experience? Share it with us.

NA1 Sutton Foster's makeover story

Click here  to watch the extract ( on the right you have the links to watch parts 1 & 3 if you're interested in watching the whole story), and here you are your own listening comprehension questions.
Congrats, you are great!

NA1 English accent vs American accent

 

Watch this extract from Ellen DeGeneres's show in which she plays a game with Hugh Laurie (House). They have to guess the meanings of some British & American slang 

(words or expressions  that are very informal.Some slang is used only by a particular group of people)

Do you understand what these words mean?

• Flossing
• Chin wag
• Ba-donka-donk
• Chuffed to bits
• Shawty 

If you fancy watching the whole inteview, click here . I wasn't able to find it without subtitles. So click on play and minimise the screen, just listen. Then watch it and check what you understood and and if you got the right answers for the slang exercise.

Find out differences between British & American English with Misterduncan.

NA1 No lesson today

Hi everyone,

Sorry to tell you we won't have lesson today because I'm still ill. I've just sent e-mails to you all , but if you read this post, will you warn as many classmates as you can contact with, please? Thanks. See you next Thursday 9th December.

NI2 No lesson today

Hi guys,

Sorry to tell you we won't have lesson today because I'm ill. I'm sending e-mails to you all  right now, but if you read this post, will you warn as many classmates as you can contact with, please? Thanks.