Memories of Christmas

Lesson Plan Outline

Level: pre-intermediate

Theme: Christmas memories

Focus: Integrated skills

Aim:

To create opportunities for the learners to develop skimming and scanning reading sub-skills, practise listening and speaking skills on the topic "Christmas memories"

Expected outcomes:

At the end of the lesson learners are expected to be able to use new vocabulary and structures while discussing their Christmas memories

1.Warming up (4 min): T-Ss

Show pictures from the cartoon "Christmas Carols" and ask students to predict the theme of the lesson. (Screen shot)

2.Pre-reading (6 min): T-Ss

Pre-teaching vocabulary (learners match pictures and the words

                           (Power Point, Smart Board)

3. Reading (5 min): S-S

Learners reorder the text

                    (computers)

4. Feedback (2 min): T-Ss

                   Checking the answers - Smart Board

5. Gap Filling  (5 min): S-S

         Text with gaps (computers)

6. Feedback (2 min): T-Ss

         Checking the answers - Smart Board

7. Listening (8 min):

         An episode from "Christmas Carols" cartoon.

8. Post- Listening (3 min): S-S

            True / False statements

9. Feedback (2 min): T-Ss

             Checking the answers

10. Speaking (5 min): S-Ss

             Mingling activity to share the Christmas memories

11. Back report (2 min): S-Ss

12. Homework: Project work "Christmas memories" using Power Point.

Materials

Memories of Christmas

For me, Christmas always began in the middle of the cold, windy month of November. My sister Alison and I sat down in front of the fire and wrote a letter to Father Christmas telling him all the presents we wanted. We solemnly addressed our letters to "FATHER Christmas. The North Pole ", before sending them up the chimney.

With December our excitement grew each day as we opened the advent calendar, Christmas cards arrived in the post, the nativity play at our school, Christmas lights in the streets, the town carol service. And of course, snow everywhere. Enough snow to make snowmen, build and have glorious snowball fights in the school playground.

On Christmas Eve, the whole family helped to decorate the house, put up the Christmas tree and the decorations and blow up the balloons. Then, in the afternoon, when Auntie Kathleen and my two cousins arrived, everything was ready. Before we went to bed, we left some brandy and mince pies for Father Christmas and then put our stockings at the end of our beds. We tried to stay awake as long as possible to see Father Christmas but the next thing we knew it was morning. Christmas morning.

Christmas morning was bright and sunny and, after church, my cousin David and I went out into the garden to play with our new presents. Lunch was always late, but what a lunch! Roast turkey with all the vegetables (carrots, Brussel sprouts, peas) followed by Christmas pudding and brandy butter. When we pulled the crackers, the dog barked, we took out the plastic toys, laughed at the jokes, put on the silly paper hats and laughed again.