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It’s that time of year again.  If you teach in a school, or if you do extracurricular private classes with school-age kids you know what I’m talking about–the month of December (here in Spain, ehem, Catalunya, at least) finds us in the midst of a lull, between the trimestral or semestral or whatever exams and the start of Christmas vacations.   And with no real “meat” on the syllabus to feed to our hungry learners, what better way to while away the time than with a variety of holiday themed activities.  Yeah!  Wahoo!

Now, if you’ve googled xmas activities for TEFL or ESL or what-have-you, you’ve no doubt come across the TEFLtastic page of X-mas goodies, which pretty much has the market cornered on holiday ideas.  Really, dude is mad thorough over there.

Nonetheless, I see my opening here, so I’m goin’ in:  Run DMC’s “Christmas in Hollis”, for a variety of different language points.  Give ‘em the video with the sound off first and have them tell you about it scene by scene, if you like.  Then hit ‘em up with the worksheet of your choice.   (Note that the “definitions” worksheet could easily be incorporated wholesale into one of the others, with just a little cutting, pasting and boldfacing.)

MS Word docs:

christmas-in-hollis-very-very-basic-vocabulary

christmas-in-hollis-prepositions

christmas-in-hollis-sequencing

christmas-in-hollis-definitions

PDF:

christmas_in_hollis_prepositions

christmas_in_hollis_definitions

christmas_in_hollis_sequencing

Well, I’m all tapped out for ways exploiting this yuletide classic in the classroom.  Anybody else got any ideas?