63 Xmas and New Year PDFs and many other festive teaching ideas. If you find anything useful here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
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Festivals and celebrations games/ worksheets main page (to mention Xmas without overdoing it)
Xmas dictionary for students (and lesson preparation)
An EFL Xmas and New Year glossary
EFL Xmas teaching ideas articles and blog posts
Xmas activities for business and ESP classes
Christmas vocabulary you can mime
Combining Xmas with a young learner syllabus
Doing something with Xmas songs
Putting the grammar back into Christmas
Photocopiable Xmas and New Year classroom activities
Grammar games with Xmas and New Year themes
A good way of combining Xmas with your usual syllabus
There is/ There are and Xmas vocabulary drawing game – NEW
Possessive S Xmas vocabulary drawing games
Xmas vocabulary prepositions of position games
Xmas mix and match (third person S, Present Simple and Xmas vocabulary)
Xmas and New Year recommendations superlatives practice
Xmas vocabulary categories activities (it is and they are)
Direct, indirect and taboo Christmas questions
Xmas vocabulary speculating games
It is and They are with adjectives Xmas pick and draw game
Present Continuous and like with ing Xmas questions games
Xmas vocabulary passive voice guessing game
Xmas vocabulary yes/no questions games (20 questions, make me say yes and you must say yes)
Festivals and celebrations like and would like practice (starting with Xmas and New Year)
Countable and uncountable nouns negotiation (with Xmas and New Year vocab)
Festivals and celebrations rules (discussing how a company should deal with seasonal events, starting with Xmas, with modal verbs)
Xmas pictures for It is/ They are
It is/ They are Xmas flashcards
Make a Xmas story Past Simple practice
Xmas and New Year future tenses review
Future Perfect New Year predictions
New Year action and state verbs
New Year resolutions adverbs of frequency – going to for plans and learner training
Xmas first conditional superstitions bluff game – a classic, hopefully not ruined in my version
Christmas Adverbs of Frequency– Present Simple and lots of lovely (not stereotyped) cultural information
Christmas traditions passives bluff game
Xmas guess the country modals of deduction
Christmas Present Simple and Continuous mimes– contrasting routines and things happening now, with lots of nice Chrimbo vocab
Christmas Past Tense mimes – Past continuous when they finish miming and then tense review as they talk about their own experiences of those things
Will for future predictions Xmas
Business English Christmas cards Do’s and Don’ts – imperatives and important cultural information
Going to Xmas mimes – for predictions with present evidence
Xmas and New Year worksheets for other language points
Generalising about Xmas and the New Year
Like and be like Xmas questions
Present Continuous and like with ing Xmas questions games
Xmas and New Year negotiations
Seasonal trends meetings practice (language of trends tied in with festivals and celebrations, starting with Xmas)
Xmas shopping roleplays (with typical phrases for shoppers and shop staff and lots of Xmas vocab)
Xmas food restaurant roleplays (with typical phrases for diners and servers)
Telephoning on festivals and celebrations (starting with ones about Xmas)
Business meetings on festivals and celebrations (starting with discussion of office rules around Xmas)
Xmas trivia number pairwork – good for Business English, Technical English and other ESP classes
Describing Xmas foods bluff game – good for students who want to explain food from their own country to foreign guests, e.g. Business English students who often entertain clients
Xmas party negotiations – the best ever game for the language of meetings and negotiations, as there is a clear winner, and some good Xmas vocab
Xmas and New Year discussion questions
Xmas and religion discussion questions
Xmas and the environment discussion questions
Xmas video worksheets
Friends Series One New Year episode
Edward Scissor Hands– cute, seasonal, the easiest film in the English language, and full of lots of lovely reference expressions
The Life of Brian – as mentioned on a Dave’s ESL Cafe thread, only for veeeery high level and open-minded students
Xmas Song worksheets
Hopefully also good examples of what you can do with other songs, e.g. copyright ones I use more often but can’t publish…
Good King Wenceslas storytelling and vocabulary
Jingle Bells rhyming words practice
Twas the Night Before Xmas correction and discussion
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks storytelling and discussion
Once in Royal David’s City rhyming words
Away in a Manger mixed up text
Have yourself a Merry Little Xmas text reordering
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
The Christmas Song (“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire” etc)
White Xmas song correct the mistakes
Miscellaneous Xmas worksheets
Describing Japanese and British Xmas and New Year
Choose cards and draw your own Xmas picture
Updated 7 December 2022
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New list of things I use most often up here:
https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/the-xmas-activities-i-most-use/