Methodical development English game lesson dedicated to the celebration of Christmas in England. Christmas “Christmas” is one of the main and widely celebrated holidays all over the world. Many Russian schools traditionally hold special English lessons and events dedicated to this national holiday.

Goals:

• generalization of the studied material on the topic: “Holidays”;
• training monologue and reading skills;
• and improving vocabulary skills.

Tasks:

• Activate and consolidate vocabulary on the topic "Holidays"
• Develop communication skills.
• Raise interest in the traditions of the target language.

Equipment:

• Cards with the text “Christmas Day”;
• audio cassette with recording of the songs “We Wish you a Merry Christmas”;
• 3 posters and pictures on the theme “Christmas and New Year”;
• Christmas tree, garlands and toys; snowman-clothes for the snowman.

Event progress

Music plays, the teacher greets the children and teams appear on the stage.

The boy: Dear guests! We are happy to see you today.

Girl 1: Enjoy our party with us!

Girl 2: Let us introduce ourselves.

The first team: We are Snowmen.

The second team: We are Snowflakes.

The third team: Rabbits.

We begin our competition.

Task 1: New Year's garlands.

Each team receives "Stockings", where there are cards with words and students have to make sentences to make a New Year's garland.

We ask the audience for help. Fans read in chorus.

Assignment 2: "The Christmas tree"

The teacher draws the attention of children to the letter that they received from Santa Claus, the students need to read this letter expressively at speed. The team that performs this task best of all gets the right to light the tree. Another team is to decorate the tree. And the other team should bring in the tree.

The 25 th of December is Christmas Day. It's a happy holiday for a lot of people in different countries.

Some weeks before Christmas English people are busy. They send greeting cards to all their relatives and friends. You can buy Christmas cards or you can make them. A lot of Children make their cards at school.

People buy a Christmas tree and decorate it with toys, colored balls and little colored lights.

On Christmas Eve people put their presents under the tree. When children go to bed, they put their stockings near their beds.

At night Father Christmas comes. He has got a big bag of presents for children. He puts the presents into the children’s stockings.

Our tree is decorated.

Hall help: Teacher: But there are not lights Let’s light the fir-tree! Please, say together with

Fir-tree in lights be! (three times)

Our fir-tree is lighting, let sing song “Fir-tree”

After the choral performance of the song, the teacher explains to the children the rules of the third task “Talking bags”: each player of the team gets his task. Each team pulls out a card with irregular verbs, making a step to name the verbs and so reach the snowflakes, and return, etc. After collecting snowflakes with questions, each team answers them.

Irregular Verb Cards: Take-took; Say-said; see-saw; give-gave; buy-bought. (15 cards with different verbs)

Snowflakes with questions: When is Christmas Day? How do people decorate a Christmas tree? Where do the English put Christmas presents? When do they do it? Where do children put their stockings when they go to bed? Do you like the Christmas day? Who decorate the Christmas tree?

The teacher together with the students sings the song “If you happy”.

Let's move on to homework.

Assignment 4: "Mosaic in pictures": Each team does their homework.

The first team "Snowmen" perform a song and at the same time dress a snowman (they put on a hat, a scarf, glue their nose, eyes, mouth). Song to the tune "We are not afraid of the gray wolf":

We have made a Snowman
Big and round, big and round!
We shall put the snowman
On the ground, on the ground!

Second team “Snowflakes”... The girl reads the verse, and the rest of the team members on the Whatman paper enliven this poem with the help of drawings: The sun, clouds, sky, meadow, flowers, a girl, a river where fish and birds swim. The result is a landscape.

Poem:

I want to live and not to die.
I want to laughs and not to cry.
I want to fly into the blue.
I want to swim as fishes do!

Third team "Rabbits" perform a dance.

Task 5 (collective): The children were given the task in advance to prepare pictures on the theme “Christmas and New Years”. Students must make a collage. The jury evaluates the work of each team. When evaluating the work, aesthetics, subject matter, accuracy are taken into account. While the jury is summing up the results, the team and fans perform the song “Jingle, Bells” in chorus. The jury sums up the results of the New Year's game and congratulates the winners.

Quest for students primary school"Christmas Adventure".

Prepared and conducted by the teacher of the English language of the highest category Knyazeva V.P.

from 12/11/2017 to 12/15/2017

Target: increase student interest in learning foreign language and the country of the target language.
Tasks:
1.Educational:
Expanding the vocabulary of students on the topics studied;
Expansion of the linguistic outlook and erudition of students;
2.Practical:
Activation and consolidation of vocabulary on the topics Food, Christmas, Colors, Counting;
Revealing the level of knowledge, abilities and skills on the topics covered;
Repetition of grammatical material on topics Present Simple, Present Continuous;
3.Educational:
Development of linguistic guesswork, attention and logical thinking;
4. Educational:
Developing the ability to work in a team;
Fostering a sense of mutual assistance;
Fostering a respectful attitude towards rivals;
Fostering a culture of communication.

Day 1.

Assembly hall, students sit in rows with an aisle for physical minutes.

1. Christmas at Hogwarts (15-20 minutes)

Video clip of Merry Christmas at Hogwarts. The teacher comes out.

W: Hello, my friends! How are you? Look what a wonderful tree Hagrid brought to our hall. And for what? (children's answer at Christmas).

Children who live in England and speak English are soon celebrating Christmas. In English, this holiday is called Christmas.

Teacher: Hagrid gave me something. What have I got? A bag. What is there in the bag? (smth for Christmas Tree) What do we need these items for? Right! To decorate our Christmas tree.

The teacher takes out toys, distributes them to the children and names the words together in English.

Bauble- ball

Ornaments- toys for the tree

Tinsel-tinsel

Ribbon ribbon

Star star

Chocolates-candies

Lights-garland

On further distribution, we ask the question: What’s this?

Now let's try to decorate our tree.

Let’s decorate our CT (to the songchildren decorate the tree each in turn), if necessary, if there are a large number of children with decorations, you can stop the video recording.

We've got a beautiful Christmas tree! But what is Christmas without gifts? Who brings them? (children have to assume that Santa Claus)

2. Where does Santa Claus live? (5-8 minutes)

Teacher: Who is Santa Claus? Where does he live?

Presentation about Santa.

(Slide 1. Santa Claus) Santa Claus lives at the North Pole. It's always winter and very cold, so Santa Claus wears a warm red suit and a red hat.

(Slide 2. Elves) Throughout the year, with the help of his elf assistants, he prepares gifts for children, and at Christmas he comes to every home and puts gifts under the Christmas tree or in a special stocking that children hang on the fireplace.

(Slide 3. Santa Claus's Reindeer) The North Pole is very far away, so the reindeer help Santa Claus. He harnesses them to his sleigh and they transport Santa Claus from house to house very quickly. Look, they do not ride in the snow, but fly through the air!

(Slide 4. Santa Claus comes through the fireplace) On Christmas night, children are waiting for Santa Claus. He comes in very quietly. It usually goes down the chimney.

(Slide 5. Santa Claus Eats Cookies) Many children leave cookies and milk for Santa Claus. This is his favorite treat!

Familiar vocabulary can be replaced English words(red hat, chimney, milk, biscuits, etc).

3.Christmas Express (20 minutes)

D: Here we will go to Santa Claus now. We need to get to the North Pole. Any ideas? How can we get the North Pole? Listen! Can you hear the sound? What is it? It's a train! It's our Christmas train!

(the last slide of the presentation with the train)

W: Of course! We can take the train. On platform 9 and ¾, the Christmas Express is waiting for us, and it is just now leaving for the North Pole.

(physical minute Train)

Children get up and repeat after the teacher:

This is a train. (lining up one after another) It puffs down the track (exhaling air) The wheels go forward The wheels go back It can turn It makes sound Choo-choo! (we say chu-chu and clap our hands) At last it stops (hands through the sides at the seams).

W: Our train has many cars and they are all different colors.

Watching a video about the train and colors (part 1) we repeat the movements and words.

An Elf is hiding in one of the carriages. If we catch him, he'll help us get to Santa.

Watching a video about the train and colors (part 2) we repeat the movements and words.

W: Great! Take your seats. Let’s guess where the elf is.

After that, we try to guess which carriage the Elf is in:

Little Elf, don’t hide far! Are you in a red car?

(we play with cars and flowers)

And here is our Elf! let's get to know him. (dialogue greeting in English).

D: So we made friends with the Elf. He has a very important thing that will help us get to Santa. But we will find out about this tomorrow!

Day 2.

Students sit in groups (for 50 people - 6 groups of 8-9 people around the desks).

4. Deer Rudolph

W: Hello, my friends! So our train is at the North Pole! Our train arrived at the North Pole. And here we are met by the reindeer of Santa Claus. And they came up with a test for us! (maze)

At the end of the maze, a message from the Elf awaits us: "If you want to get to Santa Clause, find Rudolph!"

Who is Rudolph? How do you think? Probably Santa's helper. Let's find out.

(a picture with a deer - we describe in English)

Look! It's a hoof. They are antlers! It's a tail. They are eyes. They are ears. It's a nose! A red nose. Who is it? It's a reindeer. His name is Rudolph!

This is Santa's most important reindeer that lights the way!

Rudolph is very fond of dancing. Let's dance with him.

(Reindeer dance - video) Children stand up and repeat the movements after the reindeer helpers.

5. Bell for Rudolph

W .: Now we have found out who Rudolph is. We need to call him and ask us to help find Santa. How would we do this?

Look guys, the Elf brought us 6 boxes. What's inside? Ribbons, ornaments, bells.

Guess what we are going to do? Correctly a magic bell for Rudolph. he will hear us and tell us how to find Santa.

(Craft Bell - blanks of bells, blanks of jewelry, ribbons, bows, beads, buttons, etc.).

W: What wonderful magic bells we got! Let's ring the bell and ride the sleigh to Santa.

Physics with Jingle Bells video.We almost got to Santa Claus. And whether we meet him or not, we will find out tomorrow!

Day 3.

6. Meeting with Santa Claus

W: Hello, my friends! I'm very glad to see you again.

We found Rudolph with you, and he promised to help us.

(video excerpt from the cartoon Rudolph and Santa. from 1.08.00-1.13.30)

On December 25, Catholics celebrate Christmas - one of the most beloved and brightest holidays in many English-speaking countries. Orthodox Christians celebrate this celebration on January 7th. The New Year holidays will begin very soon. We will eat sweets, have fun, sleep and rest, rest, rest.

During this joyful period, few people want to sit over textbooks or do online exercises to practice English grammar... And yet, learning English cannot be put on the back burner: almost two weeks of idleness will deal a massive blow to your level of knowledge. Therefore, today we offer you 5 interesting and at the same time useful links resources for learning English to help you "keep fit" during your vacation. These are interesting comic and serious exercises, videos and Christmas-themed songs. Stock up on chocolates, Olivier salad and learn English during the holidays.

Christmas is the only time in a year, when you can sit around a dead tree and eat chocolate out of socks.

Christmas is the only day of the year when you can sit by a felled tree and eat chocolate from your socks.

A Selection of Great Christmas Sites for English Learners

A wonderful site dedicated to New Year's celebrations,. The site is completely English-speaking and is not aimed at students studying English, so we recommend that you refer to it from a level or higher.

In the Music section, you will find a variety of Christmas songs, from the classic Jingle Bells to the little-known We’re the couple of misfits. The lyrics of the song are attached to each clip in this section - excellent material for those who want to practice listening during the New Year holidays.

The Videos section contains a selection of a variety of videos. Here you will find Christmas stories and cartoons, Christmas Youtube channels and documentaries about this celebration, holiday videos and TV shows, radio broadcasts and just funny Christmas videos.

Recipes offers the best recipes for the holiday season: drinks, desserts, snacks and of course the classic Christmas gingerbread cookie. Here you can practice your food vocabulary.

In the Games section, take a look at useful word games. Check your vocabulary: has it increased or decreased during the holidays?

Go to the Other Fun section as well. There are jokes, quotes, articles, and tongue twisters on the Christmas theme.

Do you want to keep abreast of events? Visit the News section for news about Christmas from around the world.

For a wide variety of activities for English learners, visit ESL Christmas Activities. In the Self-study quizzes section, you will be offered to take tests with which you can test your knowledge of Christmas traditions in English-speaking countries. Crossword Puzzles features Christmas-themed crosswords. Java Word Games are vocabulary training games. Flash Vocabulary and Grammar Quizzes - Flash games and tests for practicing grammar and vocabulary. In the Listening section you will find only two entries, but they are accompanied by a "full package of services": special tasks before and after reading, a test to check comprehension. And the Words of Christmas Songs section will take you to a site with classic Christmas songs.

The British Council learn English project offers us a series of great Christmas-themed tutorial videos. All videos are accompanied by a transcript (text of the recording), so you can practice listening to the English language. In addition, the videos are accompanied by three tasks, with the help of which you will check how well you have mastered the new grammatical and vocabulary material. The authors of the video have come up with a fascinating positive storyline, so you definitely won't be bored!

We bring you this collection of resources for learning English for the holidays. Weekends are not only a great opportunity to relax and sleep well, but also a chance to improve your knowledge of the English language. Let your vacation be memorable, and the minutes of learning easy and enjoyable! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Material description: I suggest the scenario of the fancy-dress holiday "Merry Christmas!" for senior preschool and junior children school age... At the costume party, children in game form fix the vocabulary on the topic "Winter and winter holidays", repeat the greeting in song form, count from 1 to 10, the English alphabet.
Target: acquaintance with the traditions of English-speaking countries.
Tasks:
Educational aspect: activate the previously studied lexical and grammatical structures in the speech of children.
Developmental aspect: develop fine motor skills, imagination, the ability to work in a group.
Educational aspect: shape cognitive activity children; foster interest in English classes, foster a willingness to cooperate on a specific task; teach to work harmoniously, helping each other.
Equipment: computer, Whatman paper, cotton wool or paper snowball, 2 buckets, white paper, felt-tip pens (pencils, paints, markers), Christmas tree blanks made of cardboard, colored paper, glue, English letters forming the word CHRISTMAS.

Leading- Miss Snowflake, Snow maiden and Santa Claus, they can be helped if necessary by either snowflakes or elves.
Holiday progress
Miss Snowflake: Hello, dear boys and girls! Hello, dear parents and grandparents! Welcome to our Christmas party! I'm Miss Snowflake and this is Snow maiden. We are very glad to see you here!
Snow maiden: Hello dear girls and boys! Hello dear parents, grandparents! I am the Snow Maiden, and this is Miss Snowflake. We are glad to see you at our holiday!
Miss Snowflake: But where is Father Frost?
Snow maiden: Indeed, where is Santa Claus? Or will English Santa Claus come to us today?
Miss Snowflake: Let’s listen to a nice song our children are going to sing, they are looking for Santa Claus, too. Where is Santa? Where is Santa?
Where? Where? Where?

Where? Where? Where?
Hello Santa! Hello Santa!
Hello! Hello!
Hi, Santa! Hi, Santa!
Hi! Hi! Hi!
Hello Santa! Hello Santa!
Hello! Hello!
Hi, Santa! Hi, Santa!
Hi! Hi! Hi!

Where is Santa? Where is Santa?
Where? Where? Where?
Where is Santa? Where is Santa?
Where? Where? Where?

Good bye! Good bye!
Bye, Santa! Bye, Santa!
Bye! Bye! Bye!
Good bye, Santa! Good bye, Santa!
Good bye! Good bye!
Bye, Santa! Bye, Santa! Bye! Bye! Bye!

Miss Snowflake: What a lovely song! We like it so much!
Snow maiden: A wonderful song, we like it very much!
Miss Snowflake: Unfortunately, Santa Claus has left all his presents for children at home. He has had to return. We hope he’ll be back soon.
Snow maiden: Unfortunately, Santa Claus failed his memory, he left gifts for the children at home, and he had to return for them. Let's hope he comes back soon with gifts.
Miss Snowflake: Meanwhile we can play different games and have a lot of fun!
Snow maiden: In the meantime, we will play different games and have fun!

2) Word Game “Catch the snowball!”

Children can name the following words and phrases: snow, winter, cold, frosty, windy, snowfall, snowman, snowball, Christmas, New Year, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, snow maiden, December, January, February, Christmas tree, etc ...

Miss Snowflake: You know so many words and phrases. Santa Claus like clever and hard-working children, he’ll definitely bring you his nice presents.
Snow maiden: How many words and phrases you know. Santa Claus will appreciate smart and hardworking children with good gifts.

If the children are shy or cannot remember the appropriate words even in Russian, you can help them. Miss Snowflake throws a snowball and pronounces a word on the topic in Russian (English), and the child returns the snowball to her with the translation of the word spoken to her. Just for fun, you can play this game: 2 teams are formed, they are invited to make snowballs out of white paper and throw them into buckets. The team that scored wins. large quantity snowballs.

3) Draw a snowman and a snowwoman!

Children are given Whatman paper and felt-tip pens (pencils, paints, markers).

Children count to ten and sing a song "Ten Little Snowmen", snowmen painted by them at this time decorate the walls of the hall.

4) Let’s do some jumping!

6) What beautiful snowflakes!

Girls in costumes of snowflakes read the poem "Snowflake" by K.D. Balmont in Russian and English. During the reading, classical music sounds.
Pupils 1-2: What a pure snowflake!
What a brave snowflake!
It is fluffy, white and nice.
We are charmed by winter dance!
Pupils 3-4: It has left the sky, but why?
Here it's dangerous. Oh, my!
What a will! Please, don’t fall down!
Oops, the snowflake's on the ground.
(Translated by Krikunova I.G.)

Pupils 5-6: Light fluffy,
The snowflake is white.
How clean
How brave!
Dear stormy
Easily sweeps through
Not into the azure heights,
He asks for the ground.

7) Christmas alphabet.

Every child on preparatory stage rhymes are heard with one of the letters that make up the word Christmas. Children find the letters they need, raise them above their heads and stand so that they make the word Christmas. Then the Christmas alphabet is recited.

Pupil 1. C is for children and
Christmas they like.
Pupil 2. H is for horses
Instead of a bike.
Pupil 3. R is for reindeer,
What can it hold?
Pupil 4. I is for ice-cream -
Tasty and cold.
Pupil 5. S is for snow,
It's so white.
Pupil 6. T is for Christmas tree,
It's so bright.
Pupil 7. M is for Mummy,
She is the best.
Pupil 8. A is for apples,
We like how they taste.
Pupil 9. S is for Santa,
Clever and kind.
All together. He brings us presents -
Presents we like!
(And here is Santa Claus at last! Hooray! Hello, Santa! How are you?
Santa Claus: Hello, everybody! I'm very glad to see you! I'm fine! Hope you too.
Snow maiden: Santa Claus is very glad to meet you!
Santa Claus: I’ve brought you wonderful presents! I see you’ve decorated the Christmas trees, you know Christmas alphabet. Well done.
Snow maiden: Santa brought wonderful gifts! He liked your suits, and elegant Christmas trees, and beautiful snowflakes. He really liked that you know a lot english letters... Well done!
Santa Claus: But what about singing the most famous song for Christmas? Let’s sing “We wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” all together!
Snow maiden: Now show Santa how well you sing!

English can be a very interesting and exciting subject (both for the teacher and for the students), it all depends on how it is presented and in what mood to study it. Just by following standard teaching aids and not adding any creativity to their work, no teacher has yet achieved significant success in their field. The same applies to students. Usually, the exception to this rule is schools and foreign language courses.

For example, on the LingvaOptima.ru website, which belongs to one of the English courses, it is clearly and clearly written that an individual approach to students, a creative approach to the subject and high level the professionalism of the teaching staff are their main values. By personal experience I will say that it is these aspects that are important, and not the price and tutorials... When choosing English courses for yourself or your child, pay attention to these simple factors.

On the eve of the happiest and most anticipated holiday, I will try to update and add new ones every day. interesting tasks in English on the topic and.

Today we have two task files. The first contains 3 worksheets and recommendations for the trainer. The tasks are not difficult, but they will take time, so you need to allocate a lesson or two for them. Useful for reading practice, oral response practice, and group work. The texts contain a lot of useful vocabulary and, importantly, interesting facts.

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Second set — IT IS CHRISTMAS TIME !!! It also has three tasks. In task number 1, you need to describe the Christmas picture in 10 sentences. The second task is to discuss how Christmas is celebrated in different countries, and fill in the missing words where necessary. Task number 3 - insert words into a famous song. Completion of the third task, at the request of the teacher and according to the availability of free time.

Crossword in English Сhristmas crossword with answers you can take