BBC Ideas - The story behind Christmas words and traditions: Video-Based

This lesson plan combines English Language Arts, ESL, Christmas activities, History, Family and winter celebrations, debates, videos, conversations, vocabulary, speaking, listening, fun facts, projects, and research in one lesson.

It's great for Winter and Christmas-themed classes, especially for older teenagers and adults.

This lesson plan can be used for exam preparations lessons, such as FCE, CAE, IELTS, TOIEC, etc

What is it?

• a no-prep lesson plan based on a video by BBC Ideas - The story behind Christmas words and traditions
• real-life content
• ESL levels: B1+/B2+ - teenagers and adults
• Speaking, Listening, and Vocabulary
• PDF and PowerPoint

What's included?

• a fully designed lesson for at least 60 minutes that requires no preparation - 3 pages full of various activities
• 2 versions of the lesson plan - one for your students and one for you (with answers!)
• a fully animated PowerPoint presentation (same content) with answers provided - only the key is editable!
• in both A4 and US letter formats

Activities

• Warm-up
• Fun Facts
• about Christmas
• Vocabulary
• before you watch
• Watch the video
• order the topics
• true or false
• Follow-up
• discussion
• Vocabulary
• fill in the gaps
• Vocabulary+
• idioms about winter
• Project

Aims:

• to improve communication by discussing various topics related to winter celebrations, history, traditions, Christmas, shopping and culture
• to improve active listening skills
• to get used to different accents in English
• to learn new vocabulary
• to discover new trends and ideas from around the world

Terms of Use:

This product can be used for educational purposes.

It is strictly forbidden to copy, resell or share this activity without written permission from Handy English.