Cambridge English Teacher Activities - Christmas crackers!
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Activity 1 Make a Christmas Cracker In England Christmas Crackers are put on tables before Christmas dinner and two people pull each end of a cracker to break it open. They wear the paper hats, tell the jokes and share out the small presents that are inside. Picture cortesy of James Barker vía www.freedigitalphotos.net To make a Christmas Cracker you need: • Cardboard tube (10 cm) • Coloured paper (A4) • String • Stickers or coloured shapes for decoration • Glue /sticky tape What to do: 1) Roll the paper round the cardboard tube and stick. The paper must be longer than the tube at both ends. 2) Make a hat with coloured paper and decorate with Christmas words and pictures. 3) Fold the hat and put it in the tube. 4) Write a riddle or a joke in English on a small piece of paper (Example: It's an animal. It´s big and white. It lives in the North Pole. What is it?) 5) Fold the riddle or joke and put it in the tube. 6) Put a small sweet or present in the tube. 7) Tie the ends of the cracker with string near the ends of the tube so there is some paper to pull at either end. 8) Decorate the cracker with stickers or coloured shapes. 9) Pull the cracker with a friend and say "Bang!" when it breaks. 10) Give the friend the hat and present. Ask him/her the riddle or tell the joke.
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Activity 1
Make a Christmas Cracker In England Christmas Crackers are put on tables before Christmas dinner and two people pull each end of a cracker to break it open. They wear the paper hats, tell the jokes and share out the small presents that are inside.
Picture cortesy of James Barker vía www.freedigitalphotos.net
To make a Christmas Cracker you need:
• Cardboard tube (10 cm) • Coloured paper (A4) • String • Stickers or coloured shapes for decoration • Glue /sticky tape
What to do: 1) Roll the paper round the cardboard tube and stick. The paper must be longer than the tube at both ends. 2) Make a hat with coloured paper and decorate with Christmas words and pictures. 3) Fold the hat and put it in the tube. 4) Write a riddle or a joke in English on a small piece of paper (Example: It's an animal. It´s big and white. It lives in the North Pole. What is it?) 5) Fold the riddle or joke and put it in the tube. 6) Put a small sweet or present in the tube. 7) Tie the ends of the cracker with string near the ends of the tube so there is some paper to pull at either end. 8) Decorate the cracker with stickers or coloured shapes. 9) Pull the cracker with a friend and say "Bang!" when it breaks. 10) Give the friend the hat and present. Ask him/her the riddle or tell the joke.
Activity 2
Christmas "grammar" song This song is sung to the popular English Christmas tune of "Twelve days of Christmas" (More videos of this Christmas song can be found on You tube).
Picture cortesy of Samarttiw vía www.freedigitalphotos.net
It practices key grammar rules that are often forgotten (such as didn't + infinitive) and, if performed at the Christmas concert, will have even parents singing "The dog didn't eat your homework" correctly through hearing the line repeated so many times in the song. The children can make posters of each line of the song (for example, "The dog didn't eat your homework" and hold them up as they sing. The first line of the song is sung, then the second and first line, then the third, second and first line etc
• On the first day of Christmas my teacher said to me: "The dog didn´t eat your homework"
• On the second day of Christmas my teacher said to me: "Did you wash your hands?"
• On the third day of Christmas my teacher said to me: "I asked a question"
• On the fourth day of Christmas my teacher said to me: Where is my blue pen?"
• On the fifth day of Christmas my teacher said to me: "DO YOUR HOMEWORK!"
• On the sixth day of Christmas my teacher said to me: "Do you…? Does he…?
• On the seventh day of Christmas my teacher said to me: " Your teacher works a lot"
• On the eighth day of Christmas my teacher said to me: "She is a good girl"
• On the ninth day of Christmas my teacher said to me: "He is a good boy"
• On the tenth day of Christmas my teacher said to me: "There are 3 questions"
• On the eleventh day of Christmas my teacher said to me: "There is a test"
• On the twelfth day of Christmas my teacher said to me: "Yes please! No thank you!"
