There are better Christmas lessons on waygook.org, but since my lesson happen to fall on the last week of classes, right before everybody left for the winter break, I just made a lesson around watching Christmas videos.

Christmas:

• Native Speaker introduces the concept of Christmas and brainstorms Christmas culture.   5 minutes.
• Native Speaker demonstrates North American Christmas culture with Christmas television show. 20 minutes.
• Native Speaker demonstrates European Christmas culture with Christmas television show. 20 minutes.

Notes:

• This was the last lesson of the term and nobody wanted to do any work.
• The girls like Mr. Bean. The boys like South Park.  I showed them both.
• I found all of the Christmas South Park videos but only used Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo since it seemed the most educational about Christmas (and it introduces the concept of the seasonal talking dung character).  The rest are here for future reference.

South Park (More information about my South Park source can be found here and here):

• EP1-10 Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo
• EP2-16 Merry Christmas Charlie Manson
• EP3-15 Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
• EP4-17 A Very Crappy Christmas
• EP6-17 Red Sleigh Down
• EP7-15 It's Christmas In Canada
• EP8-14 Woodland Critter Christmas

Merry Christmas Mr. Bean:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4

More information about my lessons can be found here.

I know it's kinda late for this to be useful for anybody, but my high school kids have been loving this cloze activity with Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You."  They are very familiar with the song because it's in Love Actually, but they don't know the words beyond the title, really. After we finished the activity we watched the video, which is old, but cute, and Christmas-y. A few girls even tried to sing along with the video, reading off their lyrics sheet - so cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ymlnxMZkXA

Didn't take the whole period, obviously, but it was good filler. =)  Merry Christmas!

great links, thanks!

lol, i think my girls would hate the christmas poo

this looks great! love modern family....gonna try it out with my after school class :)

Hey, I've got more than my fair share of stuff from Waygook, so I think it's time to give a little something back!  Here is a Lesson for a Christmas Traditions Quiz, there is a presentation with the info first, then Quiz PP after.  I'm giving a prize to the winning team for extra motivation!  Just a box of cookies, but you'd be amazed how competitive they get for cookies! 

The info is what I've got from the net, so I'm not claiming it all is totally legit, but helps to explain stuff!  It's aimed at higher level students, but could be adapted for lower levels I think.

Objective: By the end of the lesson Ss will have revised and/or learned info about the origin of Christmas traditions, and tested their knowledge in a team setting with a Christmas Quiz.

Intro    3-4 min   T will begin the class by dividing Ss into team groups.  T will attempt to mix Ss to ensure stronger class members are mixed with weaker ones, so to aid the spreading of learning.

Presentation 8-10 min   T will explain that the info in the PP is relevant to the following Quiz.  This will motivate Ss to pay careful attention to the information in the PP, through fostering a competitive environment.

Activity 15-20 min   Ss will work as a team to complete the Quiz sheets. There are 3 rounds, each with increasing difficulty. T will facilitate, explaining any unknown vocab. KT will aid T with the correction of the answers each round. At the end of each round the team totals will be announced to further motivate the students

Review 5-7 min   While the final results if being counted T will show the Ss a Christmas video. The final results of the quiz will be announced, and the T will present the prize to the winning team.

Time Filler    5 min   If there is additional time T will show short Christmas video/song for Ss to practice.

Hi everyone,

This will be my first lesson I'm posting, but wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas and share what I made for my students this week!! The song is All I Want For Christmas by Mariah Carey. One of my high school classes specially requested it, and I tested it on my third grade middle schoolers during first period today. It went over really well, and the whole class was singing their parts. They all are quite fond of this song, as am I, so we had a lot of fun with it. My coteacher was also very happy with the students' reaction (she said they usually aren't so keen on singing). They loved it so much they want a "Last Christmas" Christmas Caroling lesson next Monday for Christmas Eve. 

1. I went through the whole powerpoint first (making sure they know their parts*, how to pronounce the words, etc.) without the music.
2. I showed them the original music video.
3. We had time enough to run through the "caroling" twice with the music playing in the background** (it was a shorter 40 minute class, though).

*There is a girl part, boy part, everyone part, and 7 individual parts. You may have to change this according to your class' needs. If you have all boys/girls in your class, try assigning the pink lyrics to the right side of the classroom and the blue lyrics to the left.
**You have to manually advance the slides, so make sure you practice and get the timing right as the song plays in the background.

This looks fun am sure it will go down well with some of my students.

Did you print out the words too? I want to do this as well as a Christmas quiz. Just wondering did it take a long time to go through? I'm hoping I could do a gap fill first using the PPT (warning them they will sing next time) and then just give them print outs.

Thanks.

No, I didn't print out the lyrics! My coteachers did that before with an ABBA song while I observed and it didn't work well, but you can make the call yourself as my students probably react differently than yours. :)

My classes were shortened today, so we did all of this in 40 minutes:
Went through the powerpoint once while discussing the beginning slides (in every class we spent a good few minutes discussing the mistletoe slide, haha) and making sure they knew their parts, the meaning of the lyrics if it was a complicated line, and they listened and repeated lines for correct pronunciation. Then I showed them the original music video once, then we did the "caroling" twice.

Also made it into a competition with one of my classes: who sang better/louder--the girls or boys?

You can definitely have a few minutes to spare for a game or quiz, which is my plan for the extra 10 minutes at the high school. ;)

Okay cool. I thought because I dont want to spend a full 40 minutes on this... Maybe 25 max as some of my classes will lose focus if an activity goes on too long. Did you sing as you went through the slides? My voice is horrendous haha.

Thanks for the idea though I'll definitely use it in some form :)

Ok so I wanted an easy lesson in the run up to the school exams. The students bugged me for Christmas songs, so I put together a sort of sing-a-long lesson.

The PPT has links to Christmas songs on YouTube with the lyrics on screen. For the first activity the students had to sing along to Mariah Carey and put the correct words in the gap. For the second activity, the students had to listen to WHAM!'s Last Christmas and circle the correct word they hear. This was a little tough without the lyrics as the sound quality wasn't very good so I had to change tack and have the words on the song (I amended this on the PPT already).

For the final part of class, they had to do a spot-the-difference activity (answers are also on the PPT) and a Christmas cross-word.

I did this class with my G2 students, and they found it ok. My G1 students also managed it, but they got a little stuck with SOME of the cross-word questions. To fill up any remaining time there are two Christmas adverts at the end that you can show them, and talk about the run up to Christmas in Korea, how does it compare etc. The other songs were just to play while they worked.

Overall though, the students enjoyed the class.