A selection of English ESL jesus printables

Short Christmas lesson with both religious (jesus) and secular (Santa) information/vocabulary, written in paragraph form, with pictures

Christmas Lesson

Watch here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5575ic



Lesson Starts with some discussion questions:



1.	Do you decorate your home for Christmas?

2.	Do you put up a Christmas tree?

3.	Do you use a real Christmas tree or an artificial tree?

4.	Have you ever seen an aluminum Christmas tree?

5.	Have you ever acted in a play?  What was your character/role?

6.	When you were younger did you write a letter to Santa What was the best gift you ever got for Christmas?

7.	Do you think Christmas has become too commercialized? 

8.	Has Christmas lost it’s true meaning? 



Then Students learn character names and vocab:

1.	take it from the top

2.	sarcasm

3.	contrary

4.	pigpen

5.	security blanket

6.	rats

7.	phobia

8.	commercialism

9.	shepherd

10.	slug

11.	scripts

12.	blockhead

13.	get off the ground

14.	goof

15.	secular



Students then answer multiple choice questions as they watch the film.



Afterwards there is some more followup discussion



Watch here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5575ic

A Charlie Brown Christmas

A worksheet to teach and practice restaurant phrases. Ask the students to match the phrases to a customer or a waiter. Then students can make and practice dialogues. 

Basic restaurant phrases

Students learn the story of the first Christmas as told by Spotlight English: https://youtu.be/YRUOl74F7r4



Discussion:

•	Do you celebrate Christmas?

•	What do you usually do on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?

•	Do most people go to church at Christmas in your hometown?

•	What’s the best Christmas you’ve ever had?

•	What does Christmas mean to you? 

•	What do Christian’s celebrate at Christmas?

•	Have your feelings towards Christmas changed since you were a child?

•	Do you know the story of the first Christmas?



Vocabulary:

1.	census

2.	blessed

3.	stable

4.	manger

5.	hay

6.	shepherd

7.	announce

8.	savior

9.	miracle

10.	sacrifice

11.	come over

12.	holy

13.	praise

14.	settle down



I recommend two listens, one for main ideas and one for detail.



After listening students are encouraged to do the word search at the end.



Audio here: https://youtu.be/YRUOl74F7r4



The First Christmas

In this worksheet you can find the story about the birth of Jesus Christ and some exercises, including :True and False, Choose the correct answer, the questions and a vocabulary exercise. Grammar: Past Simpl

The First Christmas. Past Simple

Revised. This worksheet consists of 5 facts about Christmas (nativity, birth of Christ), "this fact mentions" reading exercise, some vocabulary and speaking exercises. Hope you find it helpful.

Interesting Facts about Christmas Nativity (revised)

There're 17 pages from the same PRESENTATION (see under my Power Point uploads).

It's about Easter history and culture and also Easter in England with some unusual traditions.

Suitable for 8th grade or high school students, or adults.

Please, see my other Easter worksheets (there's also a PPS for lower level students and other printables too) and other topics:



https://en.islcollective.com/mypage/my-creations?search_key=&type=printables&option=published&id=416269&grammar=&vocabulary=&materials=&levels=&studentTypes=&skills=&languageExams=&dialect=&functions=&page=1&sorting_type=most_newest&filter_type=filter_all&view_type=list&view_length=48

and also my other PPTs (PowerPoint presentations)!

Easter history and culture + Easter in U.K.

The Little Drummer Boy - the fictitious character from a popular Christmas song first recorded in 1955. This drummer is, of course, not in the biblical story, but his presence has become legendary in our modern Christmas imagination. And we can learn from him.



For this activity I selected a modern version of the classic Christmas carol (the lyrics are the same).  



Listen here: https://youtu.be/5l1CS0Jhk90



Lesson begins with discussion questions:



1.	What is the best gift you have ever been given?

2.	What was the best gift you ever gave a family member?

3.	Did they love you more for giving them this gift?

4.	Do you have a friend/ family member who is really difficult to buy a gift for?

5.	What would you do if you met a King?  

6.	Would you bring the King a gift?  What would you buy a King?

7.	How many gifts do you think the Queen of England gets every day?

8.	Do you think the Queen already owns everything she has ever wanted?

9.	What do you think the Queen’s husband buys her for Christmas?

10.	Have you ever heard a drum like the one in the picture?  What sound do you think it makes?





Lesson includes the following vocab:

nodded, told, newborn, kept time, me, finest, lay, honour, poor boy, drum, fit, best, come, gift



Students listen to the song and compete the lyrics.



Listen here: https://youtu.be/5l1CS0Jhk90

Little Drummer Boy

Ws about the holiest place in the world. The text shows its importance and information about it. Good to practice reading comprehension. Level Pre-intermediate.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

A Christmas Carol exercise where student have to listen to the song and fill in the gaps, match words in the text with pictures and put the lines in the correct order.

Joy to the World

This Christmas worksheet features a reading about the origin of Christmas and its traditions. The activities include True/False questions, multiple-choice questions, and comprehension questions to help learners understand the text. Students will learn about winter solstice festivals, the story of Jesus’s birth, and modern Christmas customs. This engaging resource is perfect for practicing reading skills and learning new vocabulary during the holiday season!

The Origin of Christmas

This Easter worksheet includes some small texts for reading and some exercises to practice the vocabulary from the texts. It is trying to explain the meaning of this holiday. Might be best for teenagers and adults . Most of the highlighted words are not related directly to Easter, but I believe they are useful in everyday speaking. (I picked ones that might be new for some of my students, but I hope this worksheet would be helpful to you too.)

Easter, Resurrection

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)

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Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

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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

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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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