British Council Christmas Activities

Here is a Christmas True or False. Under the 'True or False' activity is a link to the British Council LearnEnglish Christmas pages!

1) True or False? Answer the questions below.

This is a useful website to help you: http://www.blogger.com/www.geocities.com/carolmdieter/xmas.htm

And if you'd like to print a copy of this British Council quiz, it's here!
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-print-winter-festivals.pdf

Now here are the questions:

1.Christmas has always been celebrated on December 25th

2. In Holland children put out their shoes to receive Christmas presents.

3. The Winter Solstice is celebrated on the longest day of the year.

4. A ‘Yule Log’ was burnt on a huge bonfire to celebrate the Winter
Solstice.

5. In Tibet there is a 4 day festival to celebrate the dying year, where
people dance around a magic pole.

6. In Italy the kind witch delivers presents to good children and coal to
bad children on the 1st January.


7. In Pakistan the Winter Solstice is celebrated with a festival of singing,
dancing, bonfires and feasting.

8. In Ethiopia a special game called ‘Ganna’ is played with sticks at
Christmas.

9. In England a game called ‘Snap Dragon’ (eating raisins on fire!) is still
popular.

10. In Oaxaca, Mexico on December 23rd there is a Festival of Radishes, where people carve pictures into radishes.

Ask me for the answers!

2) Now, if you want to do some more fun Christmas activities, look at the British Council LearnEnglish activities here!
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-topics-christmas.htm

ALL students, EnglishCLF AND Room of Eight MUST do the Saint Andrew's Day Questions.

Room of Eight Students - finish your school timetable and your ideal timetable on the Room of Eight wiki, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR GOOD WEEKEND THING!!

English CLF

Here's today's work for you to do on English CLF

On your pages, create 'Yourname's School Life'. For example, 'Antonio's School Life'. There, create these pages:

Myname's School Timetable. Here, copy your school timetable... in English!

Myname's Ideal School Timetable -the timetable you would LIKE to have. Here, answer the questions you did in class:

If I could choose my own school timetable..

1. I would start lessons at…
2. I would finish lessons at…
3. I would never study…
4. I would have lots of ……………. lessons
5. Lunchtime would be from …… to……. o’ clock
6. Breaks would be……………………
7. Students would be allowed to…
8. Students wouldn’t have to…..
9. Teachers would have to…
10. Teachers wouldn’t be allowed to…

When you've finished that, you can work on the 'Good Students, Good teachers' page on then 'School Life' section.