Maria Rosa Batlle.

December 2009

IN THIS PROJECT YOU ARE GOING TO:

LEARN HOW CHRISTMAS STARTED

LEARN HOW CHRISTMAS IS CELEBRATED AROUND THE WORLD

EXPLAIN HOW YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS

LISTEN TO CHRISTMAS CAROLS

WRITE A CHRISTMAS CARD

SESSION 1 : HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS: WHAT IS THE REAL HISTORY

OF CHRISTMAS?

Load this URL http://www.soon.org.uk/christmas.htm . Scroll down the page

to “HOW DID CHRISTMAS START? “.

Read the text, then say if these sentences are TRUE or FALSE:

Are these sentences TRUE or FALSE? TRU FALS

E E
1. Christmas started in 400 A.D. (Anno Domini, after Christ
was born)

2. “Mass” was a religious festival

3. Christmas celebrated the death of Jesus

4. The story of Christmas is told in the Bible

5. Jesus was born from Mary

 6. Jesus was the son of Mary and an angel

7. Their home was in Bethlehem

8. The Romans ruled the country

9. In Bethlehem they slept with the donkeys and horses

10.Jesus’ family was rich

11.

SESSION 2 : HOW IS X-MAS CELEBRATED AROUND THE WORLD?

Do this MATCHING EXERCISE

Custom Country
1) St. Nicolas brings presents on December 6th to good children and a bag of sticks a. China
for bad children.
2) December 26th is called Boxing Day and was traditionally a day to give presents b. Spain
to the poor.
3) Tropical flowers are used as Christmas decorations. c. Great
Britain
4) The three Kings arrive on the night of January 5th to give presents to children. d. Germany
Most towns have a carnival style parade through the streets.
5) On January 6th a special almond cake with a toy crown inside is eaten. e. Czech
Republic
6) Wooden decorations and candles are put in windows of homes. f. France
7) The Christian population is between 4 – 6% and big cities put up Christmas g. Canada
trees.
8) Fir trees grow here and they always send the biggest and most beautiful fir tree h. Costa Rica
to Boston in the USA.

Check your answere here: http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/

Choose TWO countries and write HOW CHRISTMAS IS CELEBRATED in these

countries. Make a POSTER with the story and PICTURES, DRAWINGS etc.

SESSION3 : HOW DO YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS? Fill in the boxes

of the celebrations explaining what YOU and YOUR FAMILY do.

Eg: On X-mas Eve I Have supper with my family .We eat soup,
chicken and “turron”, a typical Spanish sweet made of almonds and
sugar. In Catalonia, the children do the “caga tió”. It is a tradition
where the children beat a tree trunk, “tio”, to get presents.
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDA THUR FRIDA SATURDA SUNDAY
Y SDAY Y Y
24 X-MAS 25 X-MAS 26 27 28 29 30
EVE ST.STEVE’S
DAY
(BOXING
DAY)

31 NEW 1 NEW 2 3 4 5 THE 6 THE THREE

YEAR’S EVE YEAR’S DAY THREE WISE MEN
WISE DAY
MEN EVE

How is Christmas different for you now from when you were a child? Fill in
the chart. Then write a paragraph in your BLOG

NOW WHEN I WAS A CHILD

Eg: Now I don’t get toys I got a lot of toys
SESSION 3: CHRISTMAS CARDS .Read the different messages you can use
on X-mas cards and then DRAW A CHRISTMAS CARD WITH A
MESSAGE FOR A FRIEND IN YOUR BLOG

FINAL ASSSEMENT QUIZ: DO THE ONLINE QUIZ at http://www.new-

life.net/chrtms01.htm

DO THE WEBQUEST

http://www.woodlands-
junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/activities/webquest.html

EXTRA MATERIAL:
You can learn more with these online quizzes
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/reading/xmas3.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/holidays/christmas5c.htm

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/flash/activities/gapxmas/xmas.ht
ml

http://iteslj.org/cw/1/dt-christmas.html