A selection of English ESL christmas songs printables

Ss are expected to fill in the blanks in the song while listening to it. Then, they will pay attention to bolded words, and they are trying to guess their meanings. Lastly, they will think about important moment in 2022, and their plans for 2023. Link: https://www. Youtube. Com/watch? V=-ea_1vstswa

Backstreet Boys; Christmas Song (listening activity)

Fill in the blanks with the Christmas vocabulary missing while listening to te song. Great for children between 8 and 11 years old for ESL teaching. You can find the song on YouTube by writing the title or in the bottom right corner of the document.

Up On The Housetop Christmas song.

This worksheet accompanies Mariah Carrey's song "All I want for Christmas is you". 

Task 1 is about unscrambling words  hidden behind a shape.

Task 2 is a gap fill with the use of words from Task 1.



All I want for Christmas - song worksheet

Mixed listening activity for pre-intermediate to intermediate learners to the song Shake Up Christmas by Train. Fill the gap, Bring into the correct oder and Choose the correct option task.

Christmas song listening shake up by train

One of the most popular Christmas songs. Kids love it.



Merry Christmas Everyone! :)



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Christmas Song We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOBvRs4btvE

Cover of a song by The Pogues (1988) by Ed Sheeran and Anne Marie on BBC Radio 1.

It's a Christmas favourite in the English-speaking world, though it's about a sad, failed love relationship. Original lyrics have been softened a bit for airing on the BBC it seems...

Enjoy!

Ed Sheeran - Christmas Song - Fairytale of New York

Video link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOBvRs4btvE



Cover of a song by The Pogues (1988) by Ed Sheeran and Anne Marie, live on BBC Radio in December 2017.

Original lyrics have been softened a bit for airing on the BBC it seems...

It's a Christmas classic, although it's about a love relationship ending in bitter resentment...

Students fill in the sheet while watching the video.



Christmas song - Ed Sheeran - Fairytale of New York

Listening and reading activity about the christmas song 'Fairytale of New York' by The Pogues.

Students listen, study the lyrics and then read an article about the creation of the song.

christmas song 'Fairytale of New York' listening reading

Video link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOBvRs4btvE

Cover of a song by The Pogues by Ed Sheeran and Anne Marie, on BBC Radio 1.

It's a Christmas favourite in the English world although it's about a pretty sad and failed love relationship. Original lyrics have been softened a bit for airing on the BBC...

I tell my students to focus on the singers' lips movements for they sometimes mumble...

They really liked this activity, especially before Christmas break, and as they love Ed Sheeran!

Video link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOBvRs4btvE

Cover of a song by The Pogues (1988) by Ed Sheeran and Anne Marie, live on BBC Radio in December 2017.

Original lyrics have been softened a bit for airing on the BBC it seems...

It's a Christmas classic, although it's about a love relationship ending in bitter resentment...

Students fill in the sheet while watching the video.

Christmas song classic for your ESL students. You get not only a printable task, where students have to complete the song, but you can also get an online task, which you can show in your class and let students guess the hidden words according to the pictures. Then you can click on a big red call-to-action button and reveal the answers. 
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ESL Christmas song online + offline task (last Christmas)

This worksheet contains two activities: a matching and a gap -fill exercise related to the Christmas song 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town'. First the SS learn some vocabulary and then they listen to the song and fill in the gaps. I copied two versions of the song that you can find on you tube. One with Frank Sinatra who sings at a quite slow pace, and another one that si faster but accompanied by  the cartoon that can help young student to better uderstand the meaning of the song. I have attched the solution.

The Christmas song: Santa Claus is coming to Town

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

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Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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