Activity

Christmas Lesson (with some info about Jamaica)

This Christmas lesson covers the history, purpose and Christmas activities.

The PowerPoint includes the following information:

  1. Date
  2. The purpose of Christmas
  3. History of Christmas
  4. How is Christmas celebrated
  5. Jamaican Christmas (change to your home country)

At the end of the powerpoint, I placed students in groups of 4 or 5.
Each group shared one thing about Christmas in Japan. I gave them about 5 minutes to prepare.
For example: Foods, Activities, Places to visit

Write the target language on the board "In Japan, we ________________ for Christmas."
Some ideas they shared were: In Japan, we eat Kentucky for Christmas. In Japan we look at illuminations for Christmas.

Crossword Puzzle: based on what was learned in the PowerPoint.
Website: Crossword Maker on TheTeachersCorner.net
You will have to create your own as information about Jamaica is included.

Write a Christmas card
At the back of the worksheet is a guide to help students write a Christmas card to their friend/family member.
I have attached the template I used for the Christmas Cards.
I allowed them to use colored pens and draw on it to make it more personalized.

Files:
Small files
  • Write a Christmas Card Worksheet.docx (263 KB)
  • Christmas card template.docx (296 KB)
  • crossword-bJITbhlyea.pdf (238 KB)
  • Large files (requires a subscriber account) -
  • Christmas PowerPoint.pptx (81 MB)
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    Submitted by ashgalethia December 19, 2022 Estimated time: 50 minutes
    1. Josephg99 December 19, 2022

      Hey! Love the lesson outline and activity idea! Just noticed you didn't attach the powerpoint though.

    2. ashgalethia December 20, 2022

      Hello! Hopefully you're able to see it now.

    3. Josephg99 December 20, 2022

      Perfect! Thank you :D

    4. Nippon24 November 15, 2024

      Hi there. This looks very interesting but I can't access the powerpoint file as it's very big. Can you shrink the file to make it possible to open it please? I often use this site to shrink or convert files: https://smallpdf.com/compress-pdf. Thank you for taking the time to make this presentation.

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