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A Funny Christmas Story

AlisaConcept December 04, 2017
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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: Asking about the visuals ("What can/could you see?")
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Dialect:
Tags:
  • christmas
Vocabulary:
Copyright license: iSLCollective Copyright License
First published: 2017-12-04, 15:17:02 (GMT+1)
About the author

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: with Christmas and Christmas We the lights ornaments. tree 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: wants cookies! the Claus Santa

8)

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

9) What happened?

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

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: paper on the of out airplane a flies carol! Christmas Santa made

About the author

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

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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!