A Funny Christmas Story

AlisaConcept

December 04, 2017

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HELPING LEARNERS USE CHUNKS COMMUNICATIVELY

In this video we talk about how we can help our students use chunks communicatively - we share 4 ideas that have worked well for us in the classroom. We’re using an interactive video quiz in one of our ideas, which you can find here.

Enjoy!

Anna Csíky

iSLCollective teacher trainer

Task description & scene summary

Task description:

Students can learn Christmas vocabulary, work on sentence structure and follow the sequence of events in the video.

Scene summary:

A Santa ornament is trying to get to the cookies! The short film shows him figuring out how to get to the cookies in a very creative way.

Video source: Funny Christmas Video Funny Santa Christmas Videos RiverSongs Videos.flv

Video length: 5 minutes 41 seconds

Video genre: Short film (animated or with human actors)

Lesson type: Vocabulary booster

Level:

Elementary (A1)

Student types:

elementary school

Dialect:

American English

Tags:

christmas

Vocabulary:

Christmas

Copyright license: iSLCollective Copyright License

First published: 2017-12-04, 15:17:02 (GMT+1)

About the author

AlisaConcept

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."

Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

Video quiz questions (printable)

1) What is it?

Fill the gap: It is a ________________________

2) There are three of these hanging over the fireplace.

Christmas socks
Christmas stockings
Christmas gift bags

3) What do children leave for Santa Claus

cookies and milk
magazines and cookies
books and cookies

4) What do we do with the Christmas tree?

Put the words in order: Christmas Christmas We the ornaments. and lights tree with decorate

5) What is this silver-colored decoration on the Christmas tree called?

tinsel
tree scarf
wrapping paper

6) Who is this?

Fill the gap: This is ________________________ Claus.

7) What does Santa Claus want?

Put the words in order: cookies! Claus Santa the wants

Fill the gap: Santa Claus is swinging on a ________________________ cane.

9) What happened?

Put the words in order: swings candy a Santa train. on the toy tree falls onto the around and cane

10) Santa is ________ the train.

underneath
next to
on top of

11) Santa is ___________ the cookies.

close to
on top of
far away from
inside

12) Silent night is a type of song we sing at Christmastime. This song is called a _____.

Christmas cannon
Christmas carol
Christmas hymn

13) What is the name of the Christmas Carol?

Fill the gap: The Christmas carol is called ________________________ Night

14) How does Santa get to the cookies?

Put the words in order: Santa a carol! airplane the flies on of Christmas out made paper

About the author

AlisaConcept

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

Comments

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janiceintexas

2017-12-05 16:43:55

Delightful and simple. Thanks!

janiceintexas

2017-12-05 16:43:57

Delightful and simple. Thanks!

Susana730

2017-12-05 19:29:08

wonderful!!

KvetaD

2017-12-19 14:07:17

Thanks you. It´s amazing.

Marisinacarr

2017-12-20 09:55:50

Thank you so much! I really appreciate your work. Happy Christmas!Marisa

tantana

2017-12-24 12:35:07

Thanks a lot!

Arianey

2018-01-07 11:41:25

Thank you so much for this video. My students in Spain really enjoyed playing the game and learnt some new Christmas vocabulary.

LindaLorraine

2018-11-23 16:43:58

A very nicely put together Christmas video. Well done !

iatcole

2018-12-09 20:38:39

thanks

debraann

2019-02-01 10:49:46

thank you its so sweet

bourquemanon

2019-11-26 23:57:27

Thank you very much!! It's wonderful!

speurneus73

2019-11-28 06:46:45

Thanks, it's really cute! My students will love it :)

Chiemaruco

2019-11-28 07:17:41

Thanks

adlk

2019-12-08 19:39:48

Great. Thank you very much. It will be very helpful for my students.

Irene0323

2019-12-10 02:10:34

Thanks for the nice video and it helps me teach students well!

Irene0323

2019-12-10 02:11:29

Great help! Thanks a lot!

vinko

2019-12-20 03:35:28

Thank you for the task! A very good activity for the last lesson of the year! Thank you for sharing it! Merry Christmas!

kieuphuong1987

2020-11-06 03:29:16

really useful and interesting. thanks a lot

punur

2020-11-23 03:53:22

Great source for ESL beginners! Thanks a lot.

TeacherNadia2020

2020-12-08 15:23:39

THANKS SO MUCH!

kileymarie4591

2020-12-09 17:50:00

The children loved this! Thank you for sharing!

Nadiamt

2020-12-11 07:01:05

Thank you very much.

TeacherFlorence20

2020-12-12 01:35:56

Thank you so much! My children and I had so much fun doing this. I will do it with my students next week. You made my evening here~

DawnHeather

2020-12-14 07:02:30

Thank you so much! A fun video made wonderfully interactive, and your questions make a great springboard for extra speaking. Merry Christmas x

maggy100

2020-12-18 17:04:48

it fun really

jeanieI

2020-12-19 18:56:58

Great video....

Pachy

2020-12-22 00:26:24

Excellent video! So nice and sweet! Lovely music and great to revise some Christmas vocabulary! Thanks a lot for your effort!

Carmenislasj

2021-11-25 02:48:51

This is just marvelous! Thanks a lot, really!

Burage

2021-12-07 18:34:40

What a nice and cute Christmas story! I really like the little Santa who does not need to speak a word, but you can understand him easily. The music is excellent. I`m looking forward to present it to my students. I`m sure they`ll enjoy the funny story. Thank you very much for brightening this dark December afternoon.

torres5mejia

2021-12-11 01:15:01

Thank you , love it

MariaSPFP

2021-12-13 17:47:59

Thanks a lot!

GLORIABERTRAN

2021-12-17 15:04:55

Thanks a lot! It's a very good activity!

niculinagaina

2021-12-23 07:46:04

thank you!