Christmas Story Recall

Christmas Tongue Twisters

Tongue twisters competition will for sure bring laughter to the classroom. It’s easy to write your own tongue twisters – just compose a phrase whose words all begin with the same or similar letters. If you don’t feel like writing your own tongue twisters, try one of these:

Peter perched (purchased) perfect presents in party preparation. Christmas candles caused conflagration. David drew delicious desserts. Sveta saw snowmen in the street. Take twenty (ten) tall trees.

You can as well change some words in the given twister and create your version. When you are ready, work in pairs and say your tongue twister to your partner 3 times, non-stop.

Christmas Games for English Practice

Game ‘Guess What I Am’

In this game, your students will take turns describing different Christmas and holiday related items. Start by brainstorming a list of different holiday items: Christmas tree, holiday lights, presents, sleigh, Santa Claus, stocking, snowman, mistletoe (holly), minced pie, goose, turkey, cracker. Then either assign one word to a student or make the student draw any word from a hat. Student must then describe the object in the first person (as if she/he is that object) until someone guesses the object correctly. She/he starts by giving three clues. For example, she/he might say, “I grow in the forest. People bring me home and decorate me. They put presents under me.” Students then have a chance to guess what object she is. Whoever guesses correctly gets to be the next person to give a description. If no one can guess the item after three clues, she gives three more and students get another opportunity to guess or give other hints like spelling or naming the first/second letters.

Christmas Games for English Practice

The Guilty Elf

In this game, your students will ask questions trying to determine which elf committed the Christmas crime. Students play in groups of around four. Each group should have pictures of five different elves (you can also use pictures of Christmas tree, Santa Claus, sleigh, presents, stockings, etc.). Each group lays their pictures with elves face up on a table for everyone to see them. The first player secretly chooses one of the elves as the guilty party and thinks of the Christmas crime he committed. It might be that he stole the presents, hid the stockings, broke the sleigh, kidnapped Rudolph or Santa Clause, etc. (You might want to brainstorm with your class what Christmas crimes the elves could have committed). The rest of the players then get 10 - 20 questions to determine which elf is guilty and what crime he committed. The questions must be yes/no questions. If the group solves the mystery before their questions are up, they win the round. If they are not able to solve the crime, the player who chose the elf wins. Play until each person has a chance to choose the guilty elf.

Christmas Games for English Practice

Christmas Story Recall

How well can your students listen to a story and remember the details they heard? You will know after this challenging Christmas story recall game. Start by telling your students the story of how you got your Christmas tree. Make up your own story or use the following.

a. My whole family got into the car and drove to the Christmas tree farm.

b. We picked out a tall, green tree.

c. We brought the tree home and put it in our living room.

d. We decorated the tree with lights, ornaments, and a star.

e. We put presents under the tree.

f. We heard squeaks coming from the top of the tree.

g. We looked and found a chipmunk was living in our Christmas tree!

After you have told your students the story (or the student can read it) two times, ask open-ended questions about each step of the story, and have students write down their answers. You (students) might ask: Where did we get the Christmas tree? Where did we put the tree in our home? What noise did we hear coming from the tree? Put students in groups of three to check their answers and correct each other as necessary. Then, give each group a copy of the story cut into strips. Have students work together to put them in logical order and reproduce the story.

Christmas Games for English Practice

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