The Christmas Spirit...

Wish you ther very best for a Happy Christmas holidays and a language-learning New Year.

Reading, songs and Carols

 Christmas in Great Britain   
 List of Christmas Words 
 Christmas Project 
 Song: Jingle Bell Rock 
 Song: All I want for Christmas is you 
 Song: Christmas is all around 
 Top Ten Christmas songs 

Quizzes, Word Searchers, Puzzels, Crosswords, Printables, etc.
 Online Christmas Questionnaire 
 Christmas Questionnaire (before X-mas) 
 Christmas Questionnaire (after X-mas)
 After Christmas Activity  
 Short Christmas Questionnaire 
 Christmas Story Quiz 
 Christmas Conversation Cards  
 Christmas Traditions Quiz 
 Quia - Quiz - Upgrade of Java Quiz: Advent
 Christmas In Denmark (ESL Quiz) 
 ESL Christmas Crossword
 Word Search - Christmas
 Christmas Scavenger Hunts 
 ESL Christmas Dinner Crossword
 Printable Christmas Puzzle 
 Christmas Word Puzzle
 Fun Things that you can do for Christmas
 Christmas activities 

 Stories & Traditions of Christmas
 Religious Celebrations BBC Schools  
 How did Christmas start? How does the West celebrate Christmas? 
 Holiday Stories and Traditions 
 Christmas celebrations around the world 
 Customs and Traditions in England Woodlands Junior School Kent uk 
 Christmas In UK (By students at Hugo Meynell School) 
 e-mail Santa 
 E. L. Easton - English - Christmas Links
 Christmas Stickers

Xmas games

Christmas Super Quiz Game: A quiz game for reviewing Christmas vocabulary.

Christmas Quiz Game        

Christmas Quiz Game (Nativity Story)

Question Sheets

Question Sheets

 Multiple Choice Questions

Multiple Choice Questions

Writing: Opinion essays

Giving an opinion:

¡In my opinion,…
¡Personally, I think…
¡I believe that…
¡I feel very strongly that…
¡To my mind…
¡I (completely) agree
¡disagree with…
¡it seems to me that…

Giving facts:
¡It is a fact that…
¡It is widely known that…
¡There is/are definitely…
¡It is true that…

Referring to other people’s ideas:
¡Many people say…
¡Many people believe that…

Reason and Result:
¡This is because…
¡As a result, …
¡Therefore…
¡My main reason is…
¡Another reason is…

Addition:
¡What’s more, …
¡In addition, …
¡Furthermore, …
¡Moreover, …
¡Too
¡As well
¡Also

Concluding:
¡To sum up, …
¡To conclude, …
¡In conclusion, …
¡It is clear that…

Christmas is coming...

Future Practice (Grammar)

Future Tenses

Choose the most appropriate answer.

1. Mary wants to speak with you. – Please tell her that I       her as soon as I'm free.

 will call will have called will have been calling

2. Let's meet at eleven o'clock tomorrow. – Sorry, I       at eleven o'clock.

 will be working will have worked will have been working

3. Say goodbye to Ann now. By the time you return, she       for New York.

 will be leaving will have left will have been leaving

4. By 2020, he       as the director of this company for thirty years.

 will work will be working will have been working

5. Why don't you ask Jim for help? I'm sure that he       you.

 will help will have helped will have been helping

6. Please don't ring the doorbell when you get here. My baby       .

 will be sleeping will have slept will have been sleeping

7. Where are you going to spend your vacation? – I don't know yet. Maybe we       to Italy next summer.

 will go will have gone will have been going

8. She promised that she       him about it.

 won't tell wouldn't tell won't have told wouldn't have told

9. Oh, you'll recognize him. He       a brown leather jacket and a red scarf.

 will be wearing will have worn will have been wearing

10. She buys too many things. She       all her money long before her next pay.

 will be spending will have spent will have been spending

Word building: Logical song-Supertramp

1.-  Write the words for the following phonetic transcriptions and then fill in the boxes.
/'sens¶bl/________________
/rIs'pekt¶bl/ ______________
/rI s: 'p o n s¶ b l /________________
/p r I : 'ze nt ¶ b l / ________________
/d I : p e n d ¶ bl / ________________
/v ed Z t ¶ b l / ________________
/¶ k' s e p t ¶ b l / ________________

2.-Find the word that matches the definitions:
…………………………….: someone you can be sure that they will always act consistently or sensibly.
…………………………….: a person who is able to do good decisions and judgements based on reason
…………………………….: Someone who is approved of by society and considered to be morally correct
…………………………….: A very sick or disabled person
…………………………….: someone who is good enough
…………………………….: people who behave properly and sensibly (without needing to be supervised).
…………………………….: Someone who looks fairly tidy or attractive

3.- Fill in the gaps with words ending in -al

When I was young
it seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, ……………………
And all the birds in the trees
Well they´d be singing so happily
Oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me
But then they sent me away
To teach me how to be …………………………..
…………………, oh …………………………., …………………
And they showed me a world
where i could be so ………………………….
Oh ……………………, oh ……………………, …………………

There are times when all the world´s asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won´t you please, please tell me what we´ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who i am
Now watch what you say
Or they´ll be calling you a ……………………
A ……………………, oh ……………………, ……………………
Oh won´t you sign up your name
We´d like to feel you´re
…………………………. , …………………………., Oh ………………………. , a …………………………. !

At night when all the world´s asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won´t you please,please tell me what we´ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am, who I am ,who I am

Similar words, different meanings

Court: for playing a sport [countable]

             an area made for playing games such as tennis

             a tennis/volleyball/basketball/squash court

They were penalized for having too many players on the court.

Course: an area of land or water used for a sports event

              a golf course/cross-country course

Pitch: sports field [countable] British English

             a marked out area of ground on which a sport is played [= field]

             a football/cricket/rugby /hockey  pitch

Track: [C] a type of path or road, often in the shape of a ring, which has been specially designed and built for sports events, especially racing

            an all-weather track or a dog/horse track

The runners are now on their final lap of the track.

Slope: (part of) the side of a hill or mountain

            a ski/mountain slope

 Snow had settled on some of the higher slopes.

There are many different places where people play sport! (field ,Stadium,court, Diamond, track, gym, pool, health club, slope, circuit, rink, pitch, course) But the Question is “what’s the difference between them…?”

field :
a large area of ground, usually covered with grass, where

team sports are played:

•  a football/baseball/soccer field

.

Stadium:

a large sports field with seats all around it for people to watch team sports or track and field competitions:

•  a football stadium

.

.court:
an area with lines painted on the ground, for tennis, basketball, etc.

•  a basketball / tennis / volleyball court

.

Diamond:
the area in a baseball field that is within the shape formed by the

four bases, also used to refer to the whole field

.

track:
A track is a piece of ground which athletes, cyclists, cars, or horses race around.

•  athletics / cycling track

gym:
a large room with machines which you can use to do exercises

.

(swimming) pool: a place where you can swim

.

health/Sports club:
a building where you can do various different sports

.

slope:
a surface of which one end or side is higher than the other, a piece

of rising or falling ground where usually people go skiing

•  ski slope

.

circuit:
A racing circuit is a track on which cares or motorbikes race.

•  motor-racing circuit

.

rink:
a building with a specially prepared area with a smooth surface where you can skate:

•  an ice-skating rink

.

ring:
specially prepared place for boxing:

•  a boxing ring

Some listening and writing practice-Xmas mood´s coming

XMAS TALE.

The Vuillard family gathers: Junon and Abel, a daughter Elizabeth and her son Paul, Henri and a girlfriend, Ivan, his wife Sylvia and their young sons, and cousin Simon. Six years before, Elizabeth paid Henri's debts and asked not to see him again or visit their parents' home. Paul, at 16, has mental problems and faces a clinical exam. Junon learns she needs a bone marrow transplant if she wants to live beyond a few months. Two family members have compatible marrow, but the fights, cruel words, drunken toasts, and somewhat civilized bad-behavior threaten all; Besides, Junon may simply refuse treatment. Do we know ourselves?

A Christmas Tale (French: Un conte de Noël) is a 2008 French comedy-drama film by Arnaud Desplechin, starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuelle Devos and Chiara Mastroianni. It tells the story of a family with strained relationships which gathers at the parents' home for Christmas, only to learn that their mother has leukemia. It was in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

Holiday Short Stories

1. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry | Activities | Resources
2. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson | Activities | YouTube | Lesson Plans
3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens | BBC Audio | Activities | Reader’s Theater | Flipped Lesson
4. A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum | Video
5. The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Lesson Plans | Audio
6. The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern | Additional Reading
7. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote | Audio | Lesson Plans | Holiday Unit

Future Tenses practice

1. The train  at 11:45. (to leave)
2. We  dinner at a nice restaurant on Saturday. (to have)
3. It  in the mountains tomorrow evening. (to snow)
4. On Sunday at 8 o'clock I  my friend. (to meet)
5. They  to London on Friday evening. (to fly)
6. Wait! I  you to the station. (to drive)
7. The English lesson  at 8:45. (to start)
8. I  my sister in April. (to see)
9. Look at the clouds - it  in a few minutes. (to rain)
10. Listen! There's someone at the door. I  the door for you. (to open)

Fill in each blank space with the correct future verb tense (simple future, future continuous, or future perfect):

1. Tomorrow I ________ (paint) all day.
  will be painting
  will paint
  will be paint

2. By the time we get there, the store ________ (close).
  will close
  will have closed
  closed

3. I ________ (see) you tomorrow at 3:00 PM.
  will see
  see
  will be seeing

4. After we finish this video, I ________ (see) all of this director's movies.
  will see
  will be seeing
  will have seen

5. P1: Can I come over in an hour? P2: No, I ________ (clean) the house.
  will clean
  will be cleaning
  clean

6. This time next week I ________ (drink) wine in Argentina.
  will drink
  drink
  will be drinking

7. She doesn't realize what kind of person he is, but she ________ (find out).
  will find out
  will be finding out
  will have found out

8. She insulted me. I ________ (speak) to her again!
  will never speak
  will never be speaking
  will have never spoken

9. If he continues drinking so fast, he ________ (drink) the whole bottle by midnight.
  will drink
  will have drunk
  will be drinking

10. She ________ (tell) me when her birthday is.
  will not have told
  will not be telling
  won't tell

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