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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.

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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.

  1. activity/ activities
  2. arts and crafts
  3. Boxing Day
  4. childhood…
  5. clearing up/ tidying up/ cleaning up
  6. clothes/ appearance
  7. cooking/ preparing dishes
  8. decoration(s)
  9. drink(s)
  10. entertainment
  11. evening(s)
  12. every…
  13. first…
  14. food/ dish(es)
  15. gift(s)/ present(s)
  16. housework
  17. last…
  18. morning(s)
  19. music
  20. New Year’s Day
  21. New Year’s Eve
  22. New Year’s resolutions
  23. next…
  24. party/ parties
  25. people
  26. preparation
  27. religion/ superstition(s)/ good luck/ bad luck
  28. shopping/ spending/ buying…
  29. sport(s)/ game(s)
  30. the… before last
  31. this…
  32. tradition(s)
  33. travel/ transport/ tourism
  34. TV/ streaming
  35. weather
  36. when I was… (years old)
  37. wrapping/ unwrapping
  38. Xmas Day
  39. 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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