Christmas    Is   Coming!

For ESL Primary School Students
Designed by Xiangyu Wu (10401127)

 

 

Introduction

Yourtask

Process

Evaluation

Conclusion

Teachers'page

          



Introduction

                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

                     Hello, kids! Christmas is coming!                                                        
                                                                                                                           
                                 Would you like to have a nice Christmas party?

                                                                                 Come on! You have a chance to prepare the party yourselves now.


Your tasks

Image you will be a participant of the Christmas party and prepare to give a performance in the party.

1. Playing games     2. Singing songs       3. Reading poems     4. Telling stories&jokes      5. Performing tongue twister

                                                                                                             

 

                                                                 

Process

Step1: choose one you like from the five programs.

• Form a group of 5.
• Each of you will research some materials based on your choice.
• You will only research your choice

Step 2: Research your materials

                                                                             Click here to research the games

                                                                                                            http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/party.htm
                                                                                                            http://pbskids.org/lions/games/wordplay2html   
                                                                                                            http://www.inklesstales.com/games/

   Click here to research the songs        
                                  
    http://www.iselong.com/online/Flash_Songs_For_Kids/LittleFox/index.htm  
    http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/songs/christmas.html
    http://www.flashfast.com/kids/music.html

  Click here to research the tongue twister

   http://www.indianchild.com/tongue_twister_poems.htm
   http://www.indianchild.com/tongue_twisters.ht
   http://www.estcomp.ro/~cfg/englishtwisters.html
   http://www.brownielocks.com/tonguetwisters.html

                                                                        Click here to research the poems

                                                                                                     http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/faculty/jfleitas/bandaides/iam.html
                                                                                                     http://www.ssccwebcreations.com/achosenchild.htm
                                                                                                     http://www.pitara.com/talespin/poems.asp
                                                                                                     http://www.bedtime.com/html/poetry.html
                                                                                                     http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/child
                                                                                                     http://www.inklesstales.com/poems/

 Click here to research the jokes

  http://www.bconnex.net/~kidworld/weekjoke.htm
  http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/jokes/
  http://www.humormatters.com/kidsjoke.htm
  http://www.lotsofjokes.com/kids.htm
  http://www.kidsjokes.co.uk/
                
                        

                                                                                                     Click here to research the stories
                                                                                                   
                                                                                                     http://www.bedtime.com/html/short_stories.html
                                                                                                     http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108b.html
                                                                                                     http://www.ssheen.clara.net/pleasure.htm
                                                                                                     http://www.pitara.com/talespin/story.asp
                                                                                                     http://www.meddybemps.com/5.1.html
                                                                                                     http://www.inklesstales.com/stories/
                                                                                                                                   

Step 3: Have a group discussion for preparing a presentation.

• Tell your partners what concrete programs you want to introduce or perform to your classmates and why?
• Prepare the presentation in advance and practice it with your partners and get some suggestions each other.
• Make sure your presentation is in a right way. Click here to get some ideas.

         http://www.911forkids.com/lessonplan.php
         http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/presentation_children.htm

Step 4: Presentation

• You just take responsibility for your part.
• Give a performance or teach some programs to your classmates.
• After presentation ask some questions to the audiences or you may be questioned by your audiences as well.

Evaluation

You will be evaluated in the following 4 areas.
    

	Need help	Satisfied	Good	Excellent
Cooperation	We could not agree on what we should be doing and waste time	We were able to work together to complete our task.	We worked together&share the responsibility.	We worked together&shared the responsibility very well.
Use of Sources	I was able to find some of the information I needed	I was able to find most of the information I needed.	I was able to find all the information I needed with help from others.	I was able to find all the information I needed independently.
Presentation	I participated in the presentation but remember a little information	I participated in the presentation and remember some information	I participated in the presentation and remember all information	I participated in the presentation&exhibited it confidently

 

Conclusion

• In these tasks you learned some English games, tongue twister, poems, songs, stories and jokes.    
• You also learned some skills to do the presentation.
• Now everything is ready, guys ! Just wait for Christmas Coming!

Teachers’ Page


   

Introduction

Learners

Process

Evaluation

Conclusion

         

 

Introduction

Normally, Christmas party is prepared by teachers in our school, but this year teachers want students to do it by themselves in order that they can practice their English in real world.


Learners

This activity is designed for primary school learners (EFL). They will be motivated to do the activity because of the Christmas Party.
However, this activity also can be modified to suit any English party of Primary school


The Process

Teacher should be a controller of this activity. Although some links have been given to the students for searching some materials, before carrying on their task, they should have basic knowledge to open the link and to find sites relating to these subjects. Also, students should know of some skills to do the oral reports in order that they can handle the presentation easily.

This lesson is intended to take 4 classes to introduce the activity, research, discussion and oral work.  Length of time may be shortened or lengthened as needed depending on circumstances.  Tell the students how much time they have to process. Before students begin research, discuss the evaluation section with them. It will help direct their tasks.


Evaluation

                                                                                   

The task is assessed on excellent, good, satisfied and needing help basis. But you may give students a little bit higher score than their actual ability level because students especially children need to be encouraged.


Conclusion



The main aim of this activity is to allow the students to develop their abilities from the following areas: research skills, collaboration and presentation.

It is helpful in helping students develop their skills of using Internet. This will be also valuable in helping students work together to finish their tasks. In addition, they have to use cooperative learning skills to organize their oral presentation.

In general, this is also a big task for children because it is related to research, group work, reading and speaking. But the students have the opportunity to design the Christmas party by themselves, which motivate the English study of them.