Christmas

Procedure

Stages, time

Teacher's activity

Learners' activity

Interaction

Stage aims

Stage 1 -

Introducing Santa

5 minutes

1.1. Teach the following words to the tune of 'Jingle Bells'

Santa Claus, Santa Claus,

Santa Claus is here.

Bringing toys for girls and boys

And lots of Christmas cheer.'

Sing a song

Teacher learners (whole class)

To lead-in

1.2. Show the class picture of Santa and introduce him. 'This is (eliciting Santa)

Describe his features and clothes, miming them and eliciting He's got a big head. He's got a beard.

Guess and say

Teacher learners

To review vocabulary for colours and describing faces

1.3. Point to his other features and elicit: He's got blue eyes. He's got a small nose. He's got a big mouth. He's got small ears.

Name parts of the body

Teacher learners

Stage 2 -

Introducing clothes words

8 minutes

2.1. Say 'Now let's look at his clothes'. Put the word cards for his clothes on the board. Show the hat picture, asking 'What's this?'.

Ask 'What colour is Santa's hat?'

Reinforce, saying 'He's got a red hat.'

Answer 'A hat' 'It's red.'

Teacher learners

To review vocabulary for clothes

2.2 Ask a student to come to the board.

Continue this with the other clothes words. Do this a couple of times until all the students have had a chance to come to the board.

Come up to the board and put the flashcard next to the appropriate word card on the board.

learners

2.3. Put the flashcards on the board in a column and number each one. Display the word cards next to the flash cards in the same way, but make sure the words do not match the pictures. Label each word card with a letter. Ask the students to take out their copybooks and match the words and pictures (i.e. 1b, 2d, 3a, 4c etc.) This is a good quick way of checking that they have assimilated the vocabulary.

Match

Learners (individually)

Stage 3 -

Focus on Vocabulary

10 minutes

3.1. Leave the word cards on the board so the students can copy the spelling. Show the flashcards one by one and ask them to copy the appropriate word in their copybooks. Check the words one by one.

Copy the words

Learners (individually)

Focus on vocabulary and spelling

3.2. Explain that the students are going to label a picture of Santa. Hand out the small outline drawing you have prepared and tell the students to write the clothes words in the appropriate place. Go round monitoring, helping where necessary as this activity is not meant to be a test.

Write the clothes words in the appropriate place. Colour the picture when they have finished.

Learners (individually)

Check the comprehension

Stage 4 -

Focus on Communication

2 minutes

Show the class your picture of Santa again and ask 'Has he got a black belt?' Encourage the pupils to reply.

Reply not just 'Yes', but 'Yes he has.', 'No he hasn't.'

Pair work with their handouts

To teach or review ’has got' in the question and short answer form

Stage 5 -

Communication practice

10 minutes

5.1. Encourage the students to produce a sentence like 'He's got black boots.' 'He's got red mittens.' 'He's got a red hat.'

Produce a sentence describing the picture of Santa they have labelled

Learners

5.2. Demonstrate, using the board, that you want them to write down the sentence they produce about their picture. You need to model the spelling of anything they write; it is simpler to put any words they might need on the board, and write down one or two sentences as examples.

Write down the sentence they produce about their picture.

Learners (individually)

To practise speaking skills and write a short sentence

Stage 6 -

Assessment and Feedback

3 minutes

Assess and provide feedback

Share their feelings

Teacher learners

To provide feedback

Stage 7 -

Home task

2 minutes

Project

Give home task

The children make a Christmas card for their parents, using a picture of Santa to decorate the card.

Once they have coloured the picture, they stick it on the front of the card and write their Christmas message inside the card.

Learners (individually)

To make a postcard