Articles on how to teach Christmas language and how to teach other language through Christmas lessons, plus a list of language that could be useful for or come up in lessons.
Xmas and New Year teaching tips
- Christmas vocabulary you can mime
- Combining Christmas with a young learners’ curriculum
- Doing things with Christmas songs
- Putting grammar into Christmas classes
- Christmas and New Year – a glossary for ESL learners
Photocopiable Xmas and New Year lesson plans
Free PDF classroom materials to teach Christmas language and cultural traditions, and to teach other language in Xmas lessons.
Xmas and New Year grammar lesson plans
- Christmas and New Year future forms review (going to, will, and Present Continuous)
- Future Perfect New Year numbers practice
- This time next year Future Continuous and state verbs practice
- English New Year resolutions adverbs of frequency (going to for future plans, adverbs of frequency and learner training)
- Xmas and New Year superstitions first conditional practice (bluffing game)
- Christmas traditions adverbs of frequency practice (Present Simple and cultural information)
- Passive voice Xmas traditions bluffing game
- Christmas guess the country modals of deduction practice
- Christmas mimes Present Simple and Continuous practice
- Christmas and New Year past tenses mimes and speaking (Past Simple, Past Continuous and Present Perfect)
- Predictions about Xmas will for future predictions practice
- Business English Christmas cards dos and don'ts (imperatives and cultural training)
- Xmas going to practice (mimes to practice going to for predictions with present evidence)
- Festivals and celebrations modals of obligation, prohibition and permission (speaking on how a business should deal with seasonal events, starting with Xmas)
- Xmas things with can and can’t games
- Describing Xmas things with have games
- Xmas vocabulary relative clauses definitions game
- Xmas options irregular plurals practice
- Christmas Jeopardy prepositions of time practice
- The best Xmas adjective word order practice
Xmas and New Year worksheets for other language points
- Christmas shopping roleplays (with shopping phrases and Christmas vocab)
- Christmas food restaurant roleplays (with restaurant phrases)
- Festivals and celebrations telephoning roleplays (starting with Christmas telephoning roleplays)
- Business meetings on festivals and celebrations (including office rules at Christmas)
- Xmas and New Year trends (past, present and future changes discussion)
- Christmas trivia number pairwork (pronouncing numbers, comparative adjectives, and seasonal vocabulary)
- Describing Christmas foods bluff game (describing foods practice)
- Xmas party negotiations (dividing office Xmas party jobs between you speaking, with points for the best negotiator)
- Responding to seasonal trends meetings practice (language of trends, Xmas and festivals vocabulary)
- Describing Xmas things and people games
- Opinions on Xmas and New Year liberal and conservative views discussion
Xmas and New Year discussion questions
Christmas Songs Lesson Plans for ESL Students
- Good King Wenceslas storytelling and vocabulary (putting the events into order)
- Jingle Bells rhyming words practice (adding words to the ends of the lines by their final sounds)
- Twas the Night Before Xmas correction task and discussion
- While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks storytelling and discussion
- Once in Royal David’s City rhyming words
- Little Donkey rhyming words practice
- Away in a Manger Christmas song mixed up text
- Have yourself a Merry Little Xmas text reordering (with mixed lines to put in order)
Other Xmas photocopiable lesson plans
- Xmas find someone who (mingling activity)
- New Year resolutions time management speaking