Xmas 2016: Games with Joanna

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Day 11: Joanna from Crete is sharing her Christmas activities with us!

Have fun!

This was first published at www.myeltrambles.com by Joanna Malefaki

Hi everyone!!

I was watching a movie the other night and I got an idea for a Christmas activity. You need Christmas stockings and stocking fillers which are all brought into the class from your students. I think this will be great fun, so let's have a look at the procedure, the learning objectives and my suggestions on how this activity should go.

What do you need?

Students :)

Stockings

Stocking fillers

Example of the procedure

Students bring the stocking from home and they fill their stockings with items that are important to them. They give the stocking to the teacher in private so that the other classmates do not see the stocking. The teacher hangs the stockings in the classroom and asks the students to pick a stocking.

Student A has put different stocking fillers in his stocking, for example,  a plane ticket. Student B, who has picked student's A stocking, takes out all the stocking fillers.

Student B then starts guessing the significance of the item. For instance,"I see a plane ticket.I think this student has travelled abroad." After student B describes all the objects in the stocking, the whole class guesses who the stocking belongs to. No one is allowed to say if it their stocking or not. After all the stockings/ stocking fillers have been described and all the 'guesses' have been made, the students say which stocking was theirs and the real meaning of the items in their stocking.

Teacher instructions

Tell sts to bring stocking from home.

Each stocking must have 4 things in it.

Emphasise that they should not show/ tell any other classmates what their stocking or stocking fillers look like.

Inform learners that this is not a gift exchange. All items will be returned to original owner.

The stocking fillers must have a special significance for the student. The items should not be too obvious, so that other learners can have fun guessing what these items mean and why they are important.

Timing

Each student needs to describe the object they take out of the stocking and discuss its significance for at least 2 minutes.

Depending on the size of the class, you allot the time.

Skills practiced

Listening/ Speaking.

Students use vocabulary  and grammar related to guessing and hypothesising.

Feedback?

This can be a great learning opportunity. as the teacher is mostly monitoring, they can take notes of any errors made during the guessing or stocking filler description and then the whole class can correct these mistakes.

I think this will be a  fun activity and everyone can take part. No money needs to be spent because students bring in items that belong to them.