If all you want for Christmas is a set of activities to keep you going in the classroom before the holidays, then you are in luck! We have created some fun materials for you to use, including: - A Christmas crossword to challenge your students’ vocabulary - An activity with Christmas songs - A YLE Monkey colouring page - And a Christmas card for your students to fill out! Merry Christmas, and we’re looking forward to sending you more teaching ideas in 2018. Stay tuned!

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December: “All I want for Christmas…”
Content:
1. Christmas Crossword – A2 Vocabulary ...............................................................................................2
2. Crossword answer key ........................................................................................................................4
3. Christmas Song – A1 → A2 Listening ..................................................................................................5
4. Colour Monkey! – Young Learners......................................................................................................6
5. Christmas Card – A2 → B1 – Writing ..................................................................................................7

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1. Christmas Crossword – A2 Vocabulary
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ACROSS DOWN
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Something that we give to our friends and
family. We usually wrap it up and place it
under the Christmas Tree.
14
An evergreen plant used for Christmas
decoration. It is traditional to kiss
someone under it.
2
A circular Christmas decoration made of
leaves, holly and flowers, typically hung on
doors.
15
Three Biblical Magi who follow the Star of
Bethlehem.
3
A large ball of gas in space that can be seen
from earth as a point of light in the sky.
16 A figure made of snow.
4
A small piece of snow that falls from the
sky.
17
A ginger flavoured cookie typically made
for Christmas.
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A deer with large horns that lives in
northern Europe and North America.
18
A green plant with red berries used for
Christmas decoration.
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A spiritual being represented as a human
with wings.
19
A stick-shaped piece of wax used to
produce light.
7 A space in a room for a fire to burn in. 20 Things used to adorn a room or an object.
8 A metal object that makes a ringing sound. 21 The 25th
of December.
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A dessert made with milk, flour or rice,
eggs and sugar.
22
A container in a stable from which
animals eat. According to tradition, baby
Jesus was born in one.
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A colourful, woollen covering for the feet
that in Christmas is hung on the fireplace
for Santa to put presents in it.
11
A structure on the roof of a house which is
meant to be a passage for smoke from the
fireplace to escape from the building.
12
A flavoured candy, traditionally red and
white, in the shape of a walking stick.
13 A large sled generally pulled by animals.

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2. Crossword answer key
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C A N D Y C A N E
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C H I M N E Y 21
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G I F T M 17
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A N G E L
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F I R E P L A C E M
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W R E A T H B C A
I R O S
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S T A R
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B E L L R D
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P U D D I N G T Y
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S N O W F L A K E O
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S T O C K I N G

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3. Christmas Song – A1 → A2 Listening
In the following activity, three well-known Christmas songs have been jumbled up. Ask your students
to listen to the songs and then match each verse to the correct song title: White Christmas, Have
yourself a merry little Christmas, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know.
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light.
From now on,
our troubles will be out of sight.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yule-tide gay,
From now on,
our troubles will be miles away.
Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.
Through the years
We all will be together,
If the Fates allow.
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself a merry little Christmas
now.
You know Dasher, and Dancer, and
Prancer, and Vixen,
Comet, and Cupid, and
Donner and Blitzen
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose
and if you ever saw it
you would even say it glows.
All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph
play in any reindeer games.
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
Then all the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
“Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,
you'll go down in history!”

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4. Colour Monkey! – Young Learners
 Colour Monkey’s t-shirt blue
 Colour Monkey’s arms, legs and tail brown
 Colour Monkey’s hat red
 Colour Monkey’s face yellow
 Colour Monkey’s head and ears brown
 Colour Monkey’s tummy yellow

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5. Christmas Card – A2 → B1 – Writing
You want to send Christmas wishes to a family you stayed with in Canada. Using the template on
page 8, write them a postcard and include the following points:
 Ask them how they are
 Write about how your year has been: the new friends you have made, the interesting places
you’ve visited or the activities you’ve done with your family
 Wish them a merry Christmas and a happy New Year

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