Christmas Around the World. Vocabulary 3

Christmas Around the World

Lead-in activities

There are many ways to introduce the topic of Christmas and your goal here should be to personalise the topic. For more communicative and open classes a simple discussion of the questions in the ‘Starting off’ section should be fine. For less forthcoming classes you can provide more guidance by writing prompts on the board for them to discuss: ‘best present/worst present’, ‘favourite food/least favourite food’ etc.

The box at the bottom contains Christmas greetings from ten countries and this can also be used as an extra lead-in activity. Ask the learners to try to guess which country/language the phrases are - perhaps they will know or be able to guess one or two. Later, you can write the answers on the board for the learners to match:

Answers: (left to right, top to bottom):

Arabic, Croatian, Spanish, Irish, Iraqi, Korean, Ethiopian, Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, Eskimo (Inupik)

Before you read / First reading
You could provide some prompts on the boards to guide the discussion: food, music, Santa, presents, decorations...

Answers:

1. Australia

2. Brazil

3. Denmark

4. Japan

5. Venezuela

6. Sweden

Vocabulary 1
Answers:

1. decorated

2. suggest

3. advertise

4. celebrated

5. commercialised

6. traditions

Vocabulary 3

Complete the table with the appropriate form of each word. Mark the stress for each word.

VERB	NOUN	ADJECTIVE
advertise	advertisment	advertised
suggest	suggestion	suggested
exaggerate	exaggeration	exaggerated
celebrate	celebration	celebrated
decorate	decoration	decorated
- - -	tradition	traditional
commercialise	commercialisation	commercialised

Speaking

You might try to steer the discussion, if the students are interested, towards the topic of what Christmas is/should be. The last question might be the most productive - most people have an opinion on the commercial aspects of Christmas time.

Traditions in the UK

The goal here is partly to introduce some UK traditions in preparation for the project work which follows.

Answers:

1. mistletoe

2. holly

3. turkey

4. carols

5. Rudolph

6. Boxing Day

Project

This will provide an opportunity for some artistic work from the students. Consider whether the posters could be displayed somewhere in the school - this will be motivating and will encourage the students to produce good quality work.

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