SB: 93

Reading Lesson Plan

Christmas & Santa Claus

Students:

6

Level:

Intermediate

Instructor:

Dana Lee

Length:

50 minutes

Materials:

Cross word puzzle worksheets (3 copies)

6 copies of the reading text “Christmas”

12 copies of the matching and choosing worksheets

6 copies of Letter worksheets

White board, papers and board markers

9Pieces of the picture about Christmas.

Aims:

-Primary Aims: To develop intensive reading skill by answering a guiding question to find the main idea and answering multiple choice questions to understand the details.

-Secondary Aims: To learn Christmas related vocabulary by doing a cross word puzzle.

-Personal Aims: Making active group activities, Completing time management, and Having students’ full participation,.

Language Skills:

Reading: Student will read article, vocabulary worksheet

Listening: Students will be listening teacher’s explanation and partner discussion.

Speaking: Student will discuss each other and do presentation in class

Writing: Student will write the letter to Santa Claus.

Language Systems:

Lexis : new vocabularies related to the Christmas (ex) fireplace, light, gift and so on.

Function: writing a letter to Santa Claus.

Phonology: practicing new vocabulary

Discourse: None to discuss

Grammar: None to discuss

Assumptions:

Students already know:

Ss have seen many Christmas ornaments on the streets.

Ss know what Christmas is.

Ss know who Santa Claus is.

Ss can speak and write in English but not very accurately.

Ss are interested in Christmas traditions.

Anticipated Problems and Solutions:

Students may not be able to understand some words

à Explain them with picture of that words

If class is over earlier than expected,

à give them SOS activity.

If students don’t know how much time they have,

à Before activity, running time should be explained clearly.

References:

Reading article,”Christmas”

www.google.com

Lead-In
Materials: Board
Time 3 min	Set Up Whole Class	Procedure: Hello everyone, how was your week? 2 guiding questions: Can you sing the carols? What kind of holiday that we celebrate the birth of Jesus? (Elicit the important qualities & write them on the board) OK, today’s topic is Christmas! We are going to read the story about Christmas in other conturies. But, before read the story, we are going to learn the words about Christmas.

Pre-Activity
Materials: Pictures, Cross words puzzle worksheet.
Time 5 min 2 min 7min 2min 1min	Set Up Whole Class Whole Class Group Observation Whole Class Group Observation	Procedure: I. Guess words about Christmas. Instruction Make students guess what the pictures describe. Show the pictures What is this? Can you guess what it is? Okay, these were the words about christmas. II. Vocabulary Instructions I prepare this worksheet to learn more words about Christmas. Now, we are going to play cross words puzzles in group. You have 7 minutes. (Distribute cross word puzzle worksheet) ICQ Are you working alone? How much time do you have? Let’s go! Your times up! (To make sure, distribute the answer sheet. And they correct the answer if they write wrong word.) I will give you answer sheet so correct the word if you write wrong word. You have 2 minutes. CCQ Fireplace Are there fireplace in every house? We are sitting around fireplace in winter ? Can we decorate fireplace with stockings?
Main Activity
Materials: Article about Christmas, matching and choosing worksheets, board, marker
Time 1 min 5 min 1 min 5 min 4 min	Set Up Whole Class	Procedure: Scan and Skim Okay, we learned the words. Now, we are going to read someone’s opinion about Christmas. Instructions Now I will give you 5 minutes to read story. Reading the story alone. ICQ How much time do you have? Are you working alone? Let’s read! Your times up. Feed back Student oo, Christmas in Australia is going to exotic? why? What is the food the writers like the most in Christmas? Okay, now I will give you 2 work sheets. This is group activity. One is phrase matching and choose the correct word. You have 6 minutes. (Making them groups) Instructions Are you working alone? How much do you have? Let’s go! Time warning : 1 min (Time will be flexible if they need more time ) (Draw the answer sheet on the board while they are doing work sheets) If every groups finished, make one person in a group walks at the front. And the other person shout them the answer and student at front will be write down the answer on the board. (This activity deals with choosing multiple choice worksheets)

Post-Activity
Materials: Letter sheet, board, maker.
Time 3min 10min 1min	Set up Whole Class	Procedure: Instruction Do you believe that Santa is real ? Have you ever been prayed to Santa about present? Now, we are going to write the letter to the Santa! Santa maybe listen to us really! I will give you this letter sheet so you write the letter from the bottom of the heart. You are working alone and you have 6 minutes. (Distribute letter sheets) ICQ How much do you have? Are you working in group? Let’s go. Time warning : You have 1 more minute. Feedback If students finished, collect the letters and distribute another student. And every student comes to the front, write down other’s prey on the board, and the rest will guess the letter’s writer. Okay, if you finished, I will collect these letters. And distribute other students. Now, write down on the board other student’s prey one by one. Guessing letter’s owner. Conclusion: Feedback What did we talk about today? What words did you learn? How about christmas in Australia? Do you expect Christmas this year?

SOS Activity
Materials: Pictures about christmas.
Time 10 min	Set Up Whole Class	Procedure: Instruction This activity will be a group activity. Each team choose one person. That person will be try to tell the right word. And other group member will tell about the word like. Do not use that word. Each team has 4 minutes. Team that guess more words will be a winner. ICQ Are you working alone? How much time for each team?

I love Christmas. It’s one of the best times of the year. It’s such a great time for everyone – kids and adults alike. The thing I like most about it is everyone getting together and eating   and giving presents. When I was a kid, Christmas was an amazing occasion. We’d spend weeks at school making  decorations, singing Christmas carols and practicing to perform in the nativity play. As I got older, I enjoyed giving presents more than receiving them. Even though Xmas shopping is stressful, it can be fun trying to find the perfect present for my children. One thing that has stayed with me since I was a child is my love of Christmas dinner. It has to be my favourite meal ever. Christmas just isn’t Christmas without roast turkey.

I’m sure Christmas brings the same happy feelings   wherever it is celebrated. I hope it continues to keep its message of love and peace. The Christmas spirit is very important. Nowadays it seems to get a bit lost. Everyone is so busy buying presents they forget the true meaning of Christmas. I spent quite a few Christmases in Japan, which was interesting. Everything looked as Christmassy as in England. The stores even had Frosty the Snowman playing. People bought presents and had a party, but then they went for a Kentucky Fried Chicken dinner. One thing I would like to experience is Christmas on the beach in Australia. I can’t imagine Christmas being so hot. But then I suppose it wasn’t that cold in Bethlehem when Jesus was born.

MULTIPLE CHOICE

I love Christmas. It’s one of the (1) ____ times of the year. It’s such a great time for everyone – kids and adults (2) ____. The thing I like most about it is everyone getting together and eating and giving presents. When I was a kid, Christmas was an amazing (3) ____. We’d spend weeks at school making decorations, singing Christmas carols and practicing to (4) ____ in the nativity play. As I got older, I enjoyed giving presents more than receiving (5) ____. Even though Xmas shopping is stressful, it can be fun trying to find the perfect present for my children. One thing that has stayed with me since I was a child is my love of Christmas dinner. It has to be my favourite meal (6) ____. Christmas just isn’t Christmas without roast turkey.

I’m sure Christmas brings the same (7) ____ feelings wherever it is celebrated. I hope it continues to keep its message of love and peace. The Christmas (8) ____ is very important. Nowadays it seems to get a bit lost. Everyone is (9) ____ busy buying presents they forget the true meaning of Christmas. I spent quite a few Christmases in Japan, which was interesting. Everything looked as Christmassy as in England. The stores even (10) ____ Frosty the Snowman playing. People bought presents and had a party, but then they went for a Kentucky Fried Chicken dinner. One thing I would like to experience is Christmas on the beach in Australia. I can’t (11) ____ Christmas being so hot. But then I (12) ____ it wasn’t that cold in Bethlehem when Jesus was born.

Put the correct words from this table into the article.

1.	(a)	bust	(b)	best	(c)	beast	(d)	boast
2.	(a)	alike	(b)	like	(c)	liken	(d)	likely
3.	(a)	occasionally	(b)	occasions	(c)	occasioned	(d)	occasion
4.	(a)	performance	(b)	performs	(c)	perform	(d)	performer
5.	(a)	it	(b)	them	(c)	they	(d)	these
6.	(a)	ever	(b)	even	(c)	never	(d)	every
7.	(a)	happy	(b)	happily	(c)	happiness	(d)	happier
8.	(a)	spirits	(b)	spirited	(c)	spirit	(d)	spiritual
9.	(a)	so-so	(b)	such	(c)	so-called	(d)	so
10.	(a)	has	(b)	having	(c)	had	(d)	have to
11.	(a)	imagination	(b)	imagine	(c)	imagined	(d)	imagines
12.	(a)	supposedly	(b)	supposes	(c)	supposing	(d)	suppose

PHRASE MATCH

Match the following phrases from the article.

Paragraph 1

1.	It’s one of the best	a.	everyone getting together
2	The thing I like most about it is	b.	making decorations
3.	We’d spend weeks at school	c.	without roast turkey
4.	it can be fun trying to find the	d.	favourite meal ever
5.	It has to be my	e.	times of the year
6.	Christmas just isn’t Christmas	f.	perfect present

Paragraph 2

1.	Christmas brings the same happy feelings	a.	meaning of Christmas
2	The Christmas spirit is	b.	beach in Australia
3.	they forget the true	c.	being so hot
4.	Everything looked as	d.	wherever it is celebrated
5.	Christmas on the	e.	very important
6.	I can’t imagine Christmas	f.	Christmassy as in England