The Night Before Christmas

A Christmas-themed lesson around the poem 'The Night Before Christmas. Emphasising rhythm of the language, it involves matching rhyming couplets, eliciting meaning of words from context and cultural discussion. Teachers' Notes also available at http://aimlesswanderer.org/teaching.html

The present downloadable printable is recommended for at Proficient (C2) and Upper-intermediate (B2) level. It is great for teaching Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.), Ellipsis (omission of words), Figures of speech, metaphors, metonyms and Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs) in English, and is useful for developing your pupils' Speaking skills. It is about the vocabulary topic of Christmas and Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication.

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