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.
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