Period 1

2. Listen again for key words 3. Listen and dance Pre-task activities Activity 1: It’s Christmas! Christmas for kids: Merry Christmas Song (2.26min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOa1K8fay-I 1. Listen 2. Listen again for key words 3. Listen and dance

Task activities Activity 2: Christmas Bingo 1. Look at the Worksheet-Listening 2. Fill the basic information 3. Listen to the words or phrases 4. Use a pencil to check the words or phrases you have heard. 5. Shout out “Bingo” when a horizontal line is formed. 6. Listen and draw 7. Not to look at each other’s form.

Santa

reindeer

gift / present

stocking

stockings

happy / smile

Christmas tree

Merry Christmas

Task activities Activity 3: Christmas TPR 1. Here is a picture of Santa 2. Santa is he or she? he 3. Do the action of “Listen! Santa is coming.” 4. Do the action of “Where is he?” 5. Do the action of “Look! He is over there.” 6. Play Simon says

Santa

Post-task activities Activity 4: Dr. Right 1.Nouns: singular or plural Sound reindeer gift gifts /s/ present presents stocking stockings /z/

Dr. Right

Period 2

Activity 1: It’s Christmas! Pre-task activities Activity 1: It’s Christmas! Christmas for kids: Merry Christmas Song (2.26min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOa1K8fay-I 1. Listen 2. Listen and sing alongx2 3. Sing and dance

Task activities Activity 2: Christmas Fun Worksheet-Speaking 1. Look at the Worksheet-Speaking 2. Fill the basic information 3. Listen and point The Word and Picture Bank 4. Work In pairs (Form A & Form B) 5. Not to look at each other’s form. 6. Listen and draw

Task activities Activity 3: Hide and Seek 1. This is Santa 2. Santa is a boy (he) 3. Four students to stand at each corner. 4. One of the students to go out. 5. Hide the picture of Santa. 6. Come in and find Santa. 7. Repeats the question “Listen! Santa is coming. Where is he?” (hinted by the volume of the question: the loudest the closest) 8. When Santa is found, the whole class answers the question “Look, he’s over there!”

Post-task activities Activity 4: Dr. Right 1.Pronounciation: singular or plural Singular Plural Sound reindeer gift gifts /s/ present presents stocking stockings /z/

Period 3

A title for the book

Period 4

Pre-task activities Activity 1: Why Christmas Cards? Steps: 1. Watch the film closely. 2. When was the first Christmas card been made? 3. Why do we send Christmas cards? 4. What else do you know about Christmas cards? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSzupnjDylc

Task activities Activity 2: Listing and Brainstorming Steps: 1. Look at your worksheet-writing. 3. Work in pairs, agree with your partner on a list of Christmas symbols and pictures. Draw them in the boxes. 4. Write down the words for the symbols and pictures in the boxes, then check with your partners. 5. Write down the sentences about Christmas you can use on the Christmas cards and then check with your partners.

Task activities 1. Look at Sample Christmas Card A It’s simple and easy. Just copy the words and sentence (Merry Christmas, ___) you learned in class! Don’t forget to draw the pictures as well. 2. Look at Sample Christmas Card B It’s a little bit more rich with words and sentences. You can add in more Christmas vocabularies. You can also find out all the sentences you learned from the story and use them on your cards! 3. Feel free to create your own special Christmas cards for your loved ones!

Task activities Activity 3: Ordering and Ranking Steps: 1.Look at the two samples of Christmas card! You are going to make one Christmas card like this. 2. In pairs, check your list of Christmas symbols and pictures. Decide which symbols or pictures are most important (or interesting) to you. 3. Rank them from most important (or interesting) to least important (or interesting), and be prepared to justify your orders to another pair. 4. Pick the sentence(s) you want to write down on your Christmas card and explain why.

Task activities Activity 4: Christmas Cards in the Making Steps: 1. Each student gets a piece of color paper. 2. Take out your crayons, color pencils, and markers to get ready for drawing Christmas symbols and pictures you have ranked the most important (or interesting) ones on your cards. 3. Draw the symbols and pictures on your cards and write down the English names for each Christmas symbols and pictures. 4. Write down the sentences you picked for the card. 5. Decorate your cards and make them look nice and beautiful!

Post-task activities Activity 5: Sharing Christmas Cards Steps 1. Let’s have some volunteer students to show their Christmas cards to the class. 2. What do you think about the cards? What are the similarities? What are the differences? 3. Pay attention to these mistakes of the English names and sentences! 4. Try out the tips to make your cards better! 5. Homework for today: send the cards to your loved ones and take pictures with your loved ones holding the cards. 6. Teacher will collect the pictures in next class and paste the pictures on the wall to form a Christmas tree to decorate our classroom!