Christmas lesson 2023

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo
• Leerjaar 1,2

Today's lesson

• Email bespreken
• Wordsearch 
• Christmas quiz
• "Let is Snow" watching 

Email writing

• Go to page 142 in your Book B - or open it online
• Get your email in front of you

• Dear Sir/Madam,
   
• First of all, I would like to introduce myself. 
• My name is …, I am a 15-year-old boy and I live in the Netherlands. 
• I am writing you because I would like to visit your museum. 
   
• If I pass my exams I will go to London for a few days with three of my friends.  
• We agreed that each of us would organize a surprise activity.

• I have chosen the Natural History Museum because I love everything about nature, especially dinosaurs.
  
  
• I have a couple of questions I would like to ask. 
• I was wondering if it is possible to book a guided tour for four people. 
• If so, could the tour be in simple English so we can understand the information? 
• Is it possible to get a youth discount since we are on a budget?
• And finally, how long before it starts do we have to be present?
   
• I hope to hear from you soon.
   
• Yours faithfully,
   
• First and last name 

Wordsearch

• Need help solving the puzzle?
• Read the text!

Some facts about a British Christmas

More than 40 million families and friends in England celebrate Christmas together every year so they can watch each other open the presents that Santa Claus has brought.

Most families have a Christmas tree in their house for Christmas. Families often decorate the tree together, using tinsel, ornaments and fairy lights. The rest of the house is sometimes decorated as well, with items like Mistletoe. Some families also display the Christmas cards they get.

Around Christmas there are often small groups of singers that go around town to sing Christmas carols. These songs are usually happy or religious songs about Christmas.

On Christmas Day many families and friends get together for dinner. A Christmas cracker is usually placed near each plate. The cracker opens with a bang (that’s where the name comes from) and in it there is a small toy or gift, a tissue paper hat and a piece of paper with a joke or a riddle on it.

In Britain and in a few other countries, the day after Christmas is called Boxing Day.

The last evening of the year is called New Year’s Eve, whereas the first day of the new year is called New Year’s Day. People often make resolutions (voornemens) for the new year.

Different holidays

People also celebrate other holidays in December. Hanukkah, for example, is a Jewish celebration that lasts eight days. Not everyone celebrates the turn of the year in December either: Muharram, as the start of the new Islamic year, takes place in early summer and the Chinese New Year – the Year of the Dragon – starts in February 2024. 

Today's lesson

• Wordsearch 
• Christmas quiz
• "Let is Snow" watching 

Christmas Quiz 

HoHoHo

Which company invented Santa Claus?

1. Pepsi
2. Hallmark
3. HEMA
4. Coca Cola

How many turkeys get eaten every Christmas in America?

1. 44 million
2. 22 million
3. 121 million
4. 66 million

Which airline painted a Santa on the nose of the airplane as if they had a mid-air collision?

1. Finair
2. Ryanair
3. Air Canada
4. Iceland Air

What is 'Tweede Kerstdag' called in Great-Britain?

1. Second Christmas Day
2. St Patrick's Day
3. Boxing Day
4. Christmas Eve

Which 2 colors represent Christmas?

1. Green and red
2. Blue and red
3. Green and gold
4. Purple and green

They call him Santa Claus in America, but what do the British call him?

1. Santa
2. Christmas man
3. Father Christmas
4. Sinterklaas

What happens under a mistletoe?

1. People do a dance
2. People kiss
3. People sing Christmas songs
4. People get married

What is the past tense of "to break"?

1. breaked
2. braked
3. broken
4. broke

What is the reindeer with the red nose called?

1. Rudolf
2. Hans
3. Heinrich
4. Betty

How many reindeer does Santa have?

1. 14
2. 9
3. 13
4. 10

What is wrong with the sentence: i went yesterday to the cinema.

Zet de top 5 van populairste kerstliedjes (op Spotify) in de juiste volgorde.

1

2

3

4

5

Branda Lee

Rockin'Around The Christmas Tree

Bobby Helms

Jingle Bells

Wham!

Last Christmas

Mariah Carey

All I Want for Christmas Is You

Michael Bublé

 It's Beginning To Look A Lot...

What do you think is the best Christmas movie?

Where did the McAlisters go for Christmas?

1. New York
2. Paris
3. Los Angeles
4. London

How many Home Alone movies were made?

1. 1
2. 2
3. 4
4. 6

Put the top 5 (IMDB) Christmas movies in order. 

1

2

3

4

5

Love Actually

A Christmas Carol (Scrooge)

The Nightmare before Christmas

Home Alone

The Grinch

What is a Christmas carol?

1. A Christmas song
2. A Christmas poem
3. A woman dressed up as Santa.
4. A Christmas story

What did you just see? Answer in English!

1. Ananas
2. Pineapple
3. Bacon
4. Anananas

What is the opening to the
Christmas carol "Let it snow"

1. The fire is so delightful
2. Oh the weather outside is frightful.
3. Let it snow
4. Christmas cake is aweful.

Where are Christmas carols originally sung?

1. On people's doorstep
2. Around the fireplace
3. In shopping malls
4. In the bedroom

Complete the lyric. "Jingle bell,
jingle bell, jingle bell..."

1. sock
2. pop
3. end
4. rock

Which of these songs is
the most popular Christmas
song of all time?

1. It's the most wonderful time of the year
2. Last Christmas
3. Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
4. All I want for Christmas is you

"All I want for Christmas" Mariah Carey's Christmas Song. In which year do you think she released the song?

1. 2004
2. 2014
3. 1994
4. 1984

What is the name of the
snowman in Frozen

1. Sven
2. Otis
3. Olaf
4. Hans

What name is given to small
sausages wrapped in bacon, a
snack at a British Christmas dinner?

1. Warm Little Piggies
2. Pigs In Wrapping Paper
3. Rolly Polly Sausages
4. Pigs in Blankets

When did Christmas become an official holiday in the U.S.?

1. June 26, 1870
2. Nov. 1, 1877
3. Dec. 25, 1912
4. Jan. 28, 1890

Where did the term
"X-mas" come from?

1. No one really knows
2. the Greek letter X
3. King George VI's speech impediment
4. newspaper editors needed to shorten it for headlines

Today's lesson

• Wordsearch 
• Christmas quiz
• "Let is Snow" watching