5 Christmas Activities for Your ESL Lesson in Under 10 Minutes
by
Alina Liubimova
If you are an English teacher, for sure you’re now all busy with creating Christmas lesson plans and activities. Here are 5 ideas that you can replicate on Twee in under 10 minutes (less than 2 minutes each) if you want to make your students dive into the Christmas mood 🎅🎄❄️
P.S. And these are also perfect if you have these annoying 5-10 minutes left at the end of the class when your students have (oh no!) managed to go through the lesson plan too quickly.
Idea 1 – Christmas Group Activities based on Youtube Shorts
CEFR levels: A2 and above
Organise students in small groups of 2 or 3. Find a cool Youtube Short related to Christmas. Get its transcript in the “Audio & Video to Text” tool and feed it into the “Lead-in activities for a text”. You’ll get 3 ideas for group tasks that you can use straight away. We particularly liked this one:
Split your students into pairs. Give each pair a piece of Christmas wrapping paper and ask them to come up with as many creative ways as possible to reuse it instead of throwing it away. They can write or draw their ideas on the paper itself. After 5 minutes, have each pair share their ideas with the class.
Idea 2 – Reddit Christmas Activity for Adults
CEFR levels: B2 and above
In the “Four Opinions” tool generate opinions about giving Christmas presents in a professional setting. You might need to do this a couple of times to get as many as you need. Pick only the ones that show uncertainty and present them to your students as Reddit posts or social media comments. Ask your learners to give urgent advice!
Idea 3 – Christmas Invitations on Facebook
CEFR levels: B1 and above
Create several invitations to Christmas parties in the “Reading bits” tool. Present them to your students and ask to agree on only one that all of them will accept. For levels B2 and above, you can even turn this into a role play by giving your students little notes with “You hate loud music” or “You only attend alcohol-free parties”.
P.S. You can find more Christmas Speaking ideas here.
Idea 4 – Christmas Game: Link the Words
CEFR levels: B1 and above
As for this one, you can literally create it in under 30 seconds! Just go to “Link the words” tool, type in “Christmas” and get 10 short speaking prompts for your students. Ask them to connect the words into sentences about the festive season, presents, Santa or whatever, as fast as they can!
Idea 5 – Just Sing a Song
CEFR levels: A2 and above
Find the lyrics of any Christmas song online, turn them into a fill-in-the-gap exercise (in the “Fill in the Gap” tool 😉) in a couple of clicks and create a fun listening + singing activity. Great for young and adult learners alike.
Watch our Youtube video demo showcasing how to create full Christmas lesson plans on Twee:
