THE ENGLISH ADVENTURE
BY CLARA ARGÜELLES MARTÍNEZ
EMAIL: CLARA.ARGUELLESMARTINEZ@EDUCA.MADRID.ORG
unit 6: charing cross
Listening
Queen Elizabeth II says that near Charing Cross station, there is Trafalgar Square. In Trafalgar Square, the London people put the Big Christmas tree.
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Do you know where do we put the Big Christmas tree in Madrid?
Flashcards of Christmas vocabulary
Listening: Christmas story: The night before Christmas
Exercise: Sequence the fragments of the story
Games:
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Flashcard Touch: Teacher says a vocabulary word of Christmas and the students must touch the flashcard with the word.
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Missing the flashcard: Teacher is going to take one flashcard and the students must tell which flashcard is missing.
Speaking
The Guard wants the class to decorate the Christmas tree.
Flashcards of Christmas tree decorations
Exercise: In pairs, students must ask each other Can questions to get all the decorations they are missing in the tree.
Roleplay: Each student has Christmas cracker. Students must see a word of vocabulary and they have to find someone with the same word.
Each cracker is a:
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Blue paper: students are the seller in a Christmas market.
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Yellow paper: students are the clients in a Christmas market.
Depending on the color paper, students must buy or sell the word of vocabulary using Can questions.
Later, they change roles.
Reading
Queen Elizabeth II sends a letter asking for the help of 3rd grade students.
Students must read the letter individually and later, cooperatively the twelve clues to discover who is helping Santa. Students must write a sentence telling the helper and why do they think he/she is.
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To compensate how the groups work, in clue nº3,6,9 and 12, all the groups must wait until the rest has finished, to have the next clue. Meanwhile, they will have to complete little games like word search.
Writing
Santa has told the Guard that he is looking for more elves to help him during Christmas. Students are going to become Santa Claus' elves.
In groups, students are going to roll the dice and decide:
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What Christmas song does the elf sing.
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What presents does the elf make.
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In what transport does the elf travel.
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To what countries does the elf take presents.
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At what time does the elf put the presents under the tree.
Students must describe their elf including what the dice told each one and make a drawing of it.
Promotion of reading + Education in values
Whole class reads the book "How the Grinch stole Christmas" by Dr. Seuss and answers some comprehension questions.
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What is the story about?
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What happened to the Grinch?
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What is the moral of the story?
Students write four things about Christmas they like which are not presents. They use the expression: I like…
Project
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Problem: Mister Clock is sad. He doesn’t have the baubles for the Christmas tree of Trafalgar Square because the company doesn’t work this year. Mister clock needs all of you to design baubles to decorate the Christmas tree. Can you help him?
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In groups, students must design their own bauble, make a description of the bauble, and fix a price for it (1-5 pounds).
ICT (Information & Communication Tecnhology)
Mister clock loves the baubles, but he doesn’t know which ones to use. He only has 25 pounds.
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In groups, students must look at their classmates’ baubles in the English classroom website and decide which bauble are they going to use considering the budget.
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Students must write an email to Mister Clock explaining which baubles they are going to use and how much everything costs.
Review: Board Game
