Ranking the Christmas adverts

Ranking the Christmas adverts

Ranking the 2021 

Christmas Adverts

In England, there is always a big competion to see who will make the best Christmas advert.  They normally start in November already!

We are going to look at some and the reviews people gave.

It will help you practice positive and negative vocabulary and get you into the Christmas spirit!

• Take a piece of paper and a pen.
  
• Watch the commercial and award points 1 to 10 (1 is terrible, 10 is excellent!)
  

• Write down the name of the ad and the number of points you  give.
• Then read a review and decide it is more positive or more negative and click on what you think in Lesson Up - and remember, you don't have to understand every word to know this!
  

Watch the Sports Direct commercial and award points 1 to 10

Sports direct:

Maybe it’s because we’re still desperately, deeply in love with the brave boys who took us all the way to the Euros final this summer, but we’re big fans of this one. It’s got a parka-wearing Jack Grealish doing his best East 17 impression, Jordan “Crazy Eyes” Pickford looking like he’s about to get the rave on, and even the nation’s newest non-footballing hero, Emma Raducanu, serving up snowball aces. It’s an absolute cameo-fest, but there is one glaring omission: where on earth is Bukayo Saka and his inflatable unicorn?

Sports direct

1. positive
2. negative

Watch the John Lewis commercial and award points 1 to 10

John Lewis

A John Lewis Christmas ad is a bit like an Ed Sheeran album — it’s going to be solidly made and very popular, but it’s not exactly going to tear up the rulebook. But this is an extremely John Lewis-y ad: an unearthly character who forms a touching bond with a human? Check. A stripped-down cover of a popular song? Of course. And no real mention of the shop? Indeed. The lightbulb-bothering alien does make it feel like a Christmassy remake of Stranger Things set in a semi-rural English suburb, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it all just feels a bit flat.

 

John Lewis

1. positive
2. negative