Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Christmas songs - FCE practice

Part 2: Open cloze – Shake up Christmas


Shake up the happiness
Wake 1) ___ the happiness
Shake up the happiness
It's Christmas time

There was a story that I 2) ___ told
And I want to tell the world before I 3) ___ too old
And don't remember it, so let's December it
And reassemble it, oh yeah

4) ___ upon a time in a town like this
A little girl made a great big wish
5) ___ fill the world full of happiness
And be on Santa's magic list

Shake it up, shake up the happiness
Wake it up, Wake 1) ___ the happiness
Come on all, it's Christmas time

At the same time miles away
A little boy made a wish that day
That the world 6) ___ be okay
And Santa Clause would hear him say
I got dreams and I got love
I got my feet 7) ___ the ground and family above
Can you send some happiness with my best
To the rest of the people of east and the west

And maybe every once in a while
You give my grandma a reason to smile
'Tis the season to smile
It's cold but we'll be freezing 8) ___ style

And let me meet a girl one day
That wants to spread some love this way
We can let our souls run free
And she can open some happiness with me

Shake it up…

I know you're out there
I hear your reindeer
I see the snow where
Your boots have been

I'm gonna show them
So they will know then
Then love will grow and
They believe again


Part 3: Word formation – Sleigh Ride


Just hear those sleigh bells 1) ___
Ring-ting-tingling, too
Come on, it's 2) ___ weather for a sleigh ride
Together with you
3) ___ the snow is falling
And friends are calling, "Yoo-hoo!"
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride
Together with you
Giddy-yap, giddy-yap, giddy-yap, let's go
Let's look at the show
We're riding in a 4) ___ of snow
Giddy-yap, giddy-yap, giddy-yap, it's grand
Just holding your hand
We're gliding along with a song of a 5) ___ fairyland
Our cheeks are nice and rosy and comfy-cozy are we
We're 6) ___ up together
Like two birds of a feather would be
Let's take that road before us and sing a chorus or two
Come on, it's 2) ___ weather for a sleigh ride
Together with you
There's a birthday party at the home of Farmer Gray
It'll be the perfect 7) ___ of a perfect day
We'll be singing the songs we love to sing
Without a single stop
At the 8) ___ while we watch the chestnuts pop
Oh pop pop
There's a happy 9) ___ nothing in the world can buy
When they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie
It'll nearly be like a picture print by Currier and Ives
These 10) ___ things are the things we remember
All through our lives!
Just hear those sleigh bells jingling…
Our cheeks are nice and rosy and comfy-cozy are we
We're 6) ___ up together
Like two birds of a feather would be
Let's take that road before us and sing a chorus or two
Come on, it's 2) ___ weather for a sleigh ride
Together with you
Giddy-yap, giddy-yap, giddy-yap, go
Giddy-yap, giddy-yap, giddy-yap, now
Sleigh ride, sleigh ride
Giddy-yap, giddy-yap, giddy-yap, let's take a
Sleigh ride, sleigh ride
All right girls sing
Let's take a sleigh ride now
Come on
JINGLE

LOVE

SIDE






WONDER

WINTER

SNUGGLE


LOVE (2)


END


FIRE

FEEL


WONDER



SNUGGLE (6)


LOVE (2)

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Download the worksheets here (*docx)

Saturday, 17 December 2016

Mickey's Christmas Carol - activity for Younger Learners

My favourite time of the year, Christmas is coming and I've decided to prepare some movie based activities for my (younger) students.


The activity  is based on Disney's adaptation of  A Christmas Carol. Students simply have to circle one of the two options while watching the movie (+/- 22 minutes). You can find links to the worksheets below.
  1. Scrooge loves / hates his money.
  2. Cratchit (Mickey) says Christmas is a time to spend with family / a time for working.
  3. Scrooge accepts / doesn’t accept Donald’s invitation to dinner.
  4. Marley’s ghost haunts Scrooge / Cratchit.
  5. Marley’s ghost is graceful / clumsy.
  6. The first spirit that visits Scrooge is the Ghost of Christmas past / present.
  7. Scrooge loved Isabelle more than money / money more than Isabelle.
  8. The second spirit visits Scrooge at 12 o’clock / 2 o ‘clock.
  9. The spirit of the Christmas Present uses a street lamp as a torch / a torch as a street lamp.
  10. The second spirit takes Scrooge to Marley’s / Cratchit’s house.
  11. Tiny Tim will be fine / will die if nothing changes.
  12. The spirit of Christmas future shows Scrooge Marley’s / his grave.
  13. Scrooge wakes up in his bedroom / at the cemetery.
  14. Scrooge gives money to the rich / to the poor.
  15. Scrooge gives Cratchit pay rise (more money) / more work in his company.
Answer key
  1. loves
  2. a time to spend with family
  3. doesn’t accept
  4. Scrooge
  5. clumsy
  6. past
  7. money more than Isabelle
  8. 2 o’clock
  9. a street lamp as a torch
  10. Cratchit’s house
  11. will die
  12. his
  13. in his bedroom
  14. to the poor
  15. pay rise