Xmas and New Year extended speaking monologues
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Students speak on their own about aspects of the Christmas season, with useful Xmas and New Year vocabulary.
Lesson Plan Content:
Xmas and New Year extended speaking monologues
Choose one topic related to Xmas and/ or the New Year below. Speak about that topic as long as you can, then your partner will ask you at least three questions to get more details.
- activity/ activities
- arts and crafts
- Boxing Day
- childhood…
- clearing up/ tidying up/ cleaning up
- clothes/ appearance
- cooking/ preparing dishes
- decoration(s)
- drink(s)
- entertainment
- evening(s)
- every…
- first…
- food/ dish(es)
- gift(s)/ present(s)
- housework
- last…
- morning(s)
- music
- New Year’s Day
- New Year’s Eve
- New Year’s resolutions
- next…
- party/ parties
- people
- preparation
- religion/ superstition(s)/ good luck/ bad luck
- shopping/ spending/ buying…
- sport(s)/ game(s)
- the… before last
- this…
- tradition(s)
- travel/ transport/ tourism
- TV/ streaming
- weather
- when I was… (years old)
- wrapping/ unwrapping
- Xmas Day
- Xmas Eve
When your teacher stops you, ask about any topics above you don’t understand, asking your teacher questions after their connected monologue each time.
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