About:
"It's almost Christmas day and Santa needs some help to deliver presents to kids in Australia. You (the students) need to answer some English questions to help out Santa!"
...is the general narrative of the PPT. I have left notes in the ppt for the general story beats that lead to a question. There are a total of 15 questions you can write/adapt. I did a mix of textbook content (5Q), grammar (5Q) and general Christmas questions (5Q) but feel free to focus your questions on what you would like the kids to focus on reviewing. To edit the text, open ‘Display the Selection Panel,’ click ‘hide all’ and then click on each question and answer set layer, ONE AT TIME, to add in your questions. Once you’ve added all your questions and answers, click ‘Show all’ to return everything to normal. Also, NOTE, I have purposely made all the slides look blank in left side panel but trust me, there is a lot of stuff on each slide, it's just covered by a white slide-sized box.
You will also need to click on items in the slide to make the animations move forward correctly (don't use the arrows on your laptop as that will mess up the order of the animations). If it says "TRIGGER" in the notes, those images are the ones that trigger the next animations. I've labelled all the images so to find what image is being referred to, search ‘Display the Selection Panel’ in the search bar. You can see what each trigger item is by clicking and seeing what image gets highlighted. I’ve locked everything except for text to make it easy for anyone to use without moving things by accident on the slide. Anything labelled with an * is an audio file.
I hope it all still works but it is a pretty big file because it has lots of animation, images and audio. I've included a version without audio as well so hopefully you can use that if the other template is too big.
Playing the game:
I had the students in groups of 5-6 students with whiteboards and markers. The first group to raise their hand quietly with the correct answer got one point. At the end, I'd ask the class if they wanted to raise the stakes on the last question and go with whatever number they suggested. I gave some lollies as a reward to the winning group. One thing I'm still trying to fix with this style of game is how to engage lower performing groups so they don't zone out once they start losing by a big margin. If anyone has tips, please leave a comment! :)
Because the game also doesn't take a whole class period to play, I had a separate, more basic info PPT about Aussie Chrissy in general. Even then I struggled with the more advanced classes to make it a whole period so I suggest talking about Japanese Christmas traditions compared with Australian and other countries' traditions maybe.
Lastly, one fun tip, if you have a few yen to spare, Daiso has little Santa hat and Reindeeer ear headbands around December. I would put on the headband once Santa gets revealed in the PPT and give the reindeer headband to the JTE which almost always got the students laughing up a storm (maybe a little too loudly so be careful with this power). I had one JTE uncomfortable with the idea of wearing the headband so I gave it to a student who was nearest to me but most JTEs were more than happy to play along with the bit.