Discussion and brainstorming page. Match the pictures and the words.

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1 Coloring page. Color the picture as you wish in abc order.

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2 Coloring page. Color the picture as you wish in ABC order. H B J A I K M L

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3 Christmas Countdown

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1-Santa Claus 2-angels 3-kids/children/singers 4-snowmen 5-Christmas trees 6-Christmas cookies 7-stockings 8-candles 9-reindeer 10-gifts (Use exercise also to introduce irregular plural forms: children, men, deer. Extra: Add an adjective or verb: two flying angels, six brown cookies, etc. Count forward and backward.) 4 Send Christmas greeting cards to your friends in English.

5 Tune: Jingle Bells

Christmas time, Christmas time, Christmas time is here. Families meet at Christmas time, They come from far and near. Christmas time, Christmas time, It’s a time of joy. Santa Claus will bring a gift For every girl and boy!

Tune: We Wish You a Merry Christmas

We’re happy because it’s Christmas. We’re happy because it’s Christmas. We’re happy because it’s Christmas. So let’s all have fun!

6 A Christmas Dictionary

angel heal bell honor bright list candy cane merry carpenter messiah / appointed Christmas register church reindeer decorate scarf decorations shepherd dream sleigh east snow eve snowflake evil snowman fireplace stable gift stocking give birth winter government wise hang wreath

7 Tom is writing his Christmas list for Santa. Sort out the words according to the correct topic in the chart below.

a T-shirt a puppy a bicycle a turtle a jacket chocolate cookies an airplane chips candy a kitten jeans tennis shoes a ball a rabbit strawberries a cat

Food Animals Clothes Toys

8 Christmas lotto board. Match the pictures to the words.

a Christmas a gift an angel cookie 1 2 3

a snowflake a sleigh bells 4 5 6

a church a fireplace a reindeer 7 8 9

a Christmas a snowman tree decorations 10 11 12

a Christmas a candy cane a stocking wreath 13 14 15 9 Lisa is telling Santa Claus what she wants for Christmas. Write the number of the correct picture next to the things she is asking for.

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I want … _ a doll _ a new dress _ new shoes _ a computer _ a ring _ a bicycle _ a radio _ a camera _ some flowers _ a watch _ a paint set _ colored pencils _ a guitar _ a cell phone _ sunglasses _ pyjamas _ a snake _ a horse 10 1. Unscramble the word order of the sentences in the three wreaths. Write the correct order on the lines provided. 2. The Christmas elves have mixed up the letters in the words. Write them correctly on the lines provided.

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11 Number the months in the correct order. Answer Santa’s question. Write your answer on the line provided.

When is Christmas Day?

February January

August

September May June March

December

November October July April

12 Discover what Santa is saying using the Christmas code below. Write your answer on the line next to Santa.

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______13 Read the questions below and identify the correct snowman from the descriptions given.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Which snowman has … Which snowman/men is/are … … a black and red hat and a red scarf? __ … holding a broom? __ … a red and black hat and a blue scarf? __ … holding a candy cane? __ … a purple cap? __ … throwing snowballs up in … a black cap and a yellow scarf? __ the air? __ … a green scarf? __ A … smoking a pipe? __ B … a yellow and green scarf and a brown hat? __ … wearing a vest? __ … a red and green scarf and a black and red hat? __ … wearing gloves? __ … a black hat and a blue scarf? __ … wearing an apron? __ … a red kerchief and a green and white apron? __ … wearing a kerchief? __ … a black and green scarf and a black and blue hat? __ … skating? __

14 Complete each sentence with the correct possessive pronoun. Then match to the appropriate picture.

What are you doing on Christmas? my - your - our - their - his - her - its

1. They are going to ______church. 2. We’re standing around ______Christmas tree. 3. I am hanging ______stocking by the fireplace. 4. We are opening ______Christmas gifts. 5. You are writing ______Christmas list to Santa Claus. 6. He’s sick! He is staying in ______bed. 7. They’re singing ______favorite Christmas songs outside. 8. She’s telling Santa Claus ______Christmas wishes. 9. I’m putting gifts for ______friends under the Christmas tree. 10. He is telling the story of Christmas to ______family. 11. We’re on Christmas vacation from ______school!

15 Complete the reading passage with a suitable word from the list on the right. Use the letter clues.

W______is here! It’s cold outside and there is snow everywhere. Big December white s______are falling from the sky. I look out the window and see our songs dog, Fritz, r______near the Christmas tree. My sister and I put all of top the d______on the tree this morning. It looks beautiful! There is a big neck gold star on the t______of the tree. My brother made a big snowman. He put a blue scarf around its n______and a long orange c______for carrot its nose! Three people are singing Christmas s______in our y______. gloves They have g______on their hands and boots on their feet. Today is the wonderful twenty-third of D______and tomorrow n______is Christmas eve. night Christmas is going to be w______! yard decorations snowflakes winter running

1616 Read the story and fill in the missing words from the word bank below. Use the letter clues.

The Story of Christmas Over 2,000 years ago, in the city of Nazareth, lived a c______named Joseph and his wife-to-be, Mary. One night an a______came to Mary and told her she would give birth to a very special baby boy. Mary was a virgin. She told Joseph what the angel said, but he did not b______her. Only when another angel came to Joseph in a d______and told him this was true did he understand. Joseph and Mary left Nazareth on a d______and began the long trip to Bethlehem, where they had to register their names with the r______Roman government. When they arrived in Bethlehem there was no room for them to stay in the h______, only the stable — the animal house for travelers’ donkeys and horses. Jesus was born that night. They had no bed for him, so they used an a______feeding box filled with the dry grass the animals ate. That night, some men were out in the fields watching their s______. Suddenly they saw a bright l______. It was an angel. The angel told them that someone great was born today and will s______the people from all that is wrong and evil in the w______. The angel told the shepherds that they would find him lying on a bed of dry g______.

animal angel believe carpenter donkey dream grass hotel light ruling save sheep world 17 That same night, three w_____ men saw an unusual new star in the sky. They knew this told them of the b_____ of a great king. The wise men f_____ the star east until they reached the stable where Mary, Joseph and the baby, Jesus, were staying. They gave them gifts to honor the c_____. Herod, the e_____ king of the land, heard about the child and sent his soldiers to kill Jesus. God told Joseph in a dream to take Mary and the baby and e_____ to Egypt. They lived there until King Herod d_____ and then went back to live in Nazareth. When Jesus was a man, he began t_____ and healing the s_____. He was k_____ as Jesus the Christ, which means “the appointed” or “messiah”. Jesus was k_____ for his way of life, but his teachings are the basis of the worldwide r_____ called Christianity. For C_____ all over the world, the night of December 24th is an important and joyous holiday. It is the night when Jesus Christ and the Christian religion was born. Every C_____ Eve, hundreds of Christians go to the C_____ of the People say that the church is built over the place Nativity in Bethlehem. where Jesus was b_____.

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