4 Christmas Activities
Christmas Taboo
Activity Time: 15 mins + Materials required: a copy of the printable. Level: Young learners and teens. Printable: Download Christmas Taboo is a simple game you can play in class to revise Christmas vocabulary. The aim of the game is simple; each person takes a card and they must describe the word on the card without saying or using that word or any of the additional words written on that card.[gview file=”https://eslkidsgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Christmas-taboo1.pdf”]
Christmas Quiz
Activity Time: 10 mins
Materials required: a copy of the printable
Level: Young learners.
Printable: Download
This simple quiz can be used to test your classes knowledge of Santa Claus. This quiz can be used in a number of different ways, but I’ve personally had success with putting the class into teams of pairs and using it with The Bomb Game. To add to this quiz, get your students to write one question each about Christmas. You can use this quiz with “bomb” for Smart board or with the printable version.
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Conversation questions
Activity Time: 10 mins + Materials required: a copy of the printable Level: Teens and Adults all levels. Printable: Download Over 25 different questions to get the class talking about Christmas.[gview file=”https://eslkidsgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ESL-Christmas-Conversation-Questions.pdf”]
Christmas Video Facts
This is a great simple activity to practice their reading and writing skills while talking about some unusual facts about Christmas.Activity Time: 15 mins
Materials required: A computer to play the video
Level: Teens and Adults Intermediate +
Method
1. First put your class in pairs. Tell them to write the following information on a piece of paper or on their notebooks. Make sure they leave space so they can write information next to these numbers and words.
2. Tell them they are going to watch a video. One person will watch the video and tell their partner about the relevance of the information they have previously written.
3. Play the video twice and then check their answers.
Solutions:
More Christmas activities
Discover more Christmas activities for kids, teens and adults.
Christmas Spot the Difference – Practice Christmas vocabulary with this fun interactive online game.
ESL Christmas Quiz – This great no-prep Christmas quiz is great for teens and adults and covers Christmas cultural knowledge, vocabulary, Christmas music. ESL Christmas Tongue Twisters – A collection of Christmas tongue twisters to practice pronunciation with young learners and teen and even adults. Christmas Story Recall – In this activity, students watch/listen to a short Christmas story and then they try and rewrite/tell the story later. ESL Christmas Charades – This activity is a great no-prep game for teens and adults to practice Christmas vocabulary. Just a minute Christmas Challenge – In this activity students need to speak about a Christmas photo for one minute. This activity is great for teens and adults who are preparing for the B1 Exam (PET). ESL Christmas Debate – In this activity, students have a debate on different statements related to Christmas. This activity is great for teens and adults with a higher level. Christmas Vocabulary Word Search –(Interactive online game) Christmas Vocabulary word search to review Christmas vocabulary. Christmas Vocabulary Hangman – (Interactive online game for kids) Classic hangman style game to practice vocabulary and spelling.
Kirsten
says:These are all great ideas. Thank you for posting! However, I just want to point out you misspelled “elves” on the taboo game!
DavidM
says:Hi Kirsten,
Thanks for letting me know! Sorry about that. I’ll correct it now.
Melissa
says:No video is linked or referenced
DavidM
says:Hi Melissa, Apologies, the url for the video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gq6Wq4IORw&t
Thanks for letting me know.