A Night Of Christmas Carols

Hosted by Miss Cinthia Salgado

Subject: Recursos didacticosProfessor: Mª Edith Larenas

Today’s objectives

• In this presentation we are going to learn about the order of adjectives and nouns through the singing of a Christmas Carol and also some new vocabulary related to the twelve days of Christmas’ Carol

• Lesson duration: 90 minutes aprox

Warming up

• Activity: Class discussion

• Level: Elementary school/ beginners

• Objective: let the students know the theme of the class and give them the opportunity to speak freely answering simple questions about Christmas Carols

• Time: 5 minutes

Warming upClass discussion

• What is a Christmas Carol?

• What famous Christmas’ Carol do you know?

Pre activity Nº 2

• Activity: Vocabulary photographs

• Level: Elementary school/beginners

• Objective: learn new vocabulary related to the song

• Aids: Vocabulary pictures

• Time: 15 minutes

Pre - Activity Nº 2 Vocabulary photographs

Drummer Dove

Hen

geese

Partridge

While Activity Nº 1

• Activity: Listen and complete

• Level: Elementary

• Objective: Let the student identify the new words used in the previous exercised that appear in the song

• Aids: recording of “The twelve days of Christmas song”

• Time: 20 minutes

• Listen to the song and complete the missing words

The Twelve days of Christmas

The Twelve days of Christmas• On the first day of Christmas

my true love sent to me:A ________in a Pear Tree

On the second day of Christmasmy true love sent to me:

Two Turtle_______and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

On the third day of Christmasmy true love sent to me:

Three ______HensTwo Turtle Doves

and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

On the fourth day of Christmasmy true love sent to me:

Partridge

Doves

French

• Four _______Birds*Three French HensTwo Turtle Doves

and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

• On the fifth day of Christmasmy true love sent to me:

Five _______RingsFour Calling Birds

Three French______Two Turtle Doves

and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

• ...Six _____a-laying... ...Seven swans a-swimming... 

...Eight maids a-milking... ...Nine ladies dancing... ...Ten lords a-leaping... ...Eleven pipers piping... 

...Twelve drummers drumming

Golden

Calling

Hens

geese

What kind of words were missing?

- Words that represent objects: Words that represent objects are also know as Nouns

- Words that represent qualities or characteristic of the object: the words that represent characteristics of objects like color, size, etc… are call Adjectives and goes before the noun

Example

• Rudolf’s red nose

• Here red is a characteristic of the nose so is an adjective and goes before the noun

• Nose is a noun because a nose is an object

While activity Nº 2

• Activity: Worksheet adjective placement

• Level: Elementary school/ beginners

• Objective: Practice the correct order of adjective-noun sentences

• Aids: Worksheet adjective placement

• Time 15 minutes

Post Activity Nº1

• Activity: Retune the song

• Level: Elementary/beginners

• Objective: write a new version of the song using a combination of adjective + noun

• Time: 20 minutes

Re tune the song

• Rewrite this Christmas Carol using the main phrase “my teacher sent to me”

• Example:

“On the first day of Christmas my teacher sent to me…. One good mark”

Post Activity

• Activity: share and sing

• Level: Elementary /beginners

• Objective: practice pronunciation and receive feedback from the teacher

• Aids: The twelve days of Christmas recording

• Time: 10 minutes

Post Activity

• Show your new version of the song to the class and let every group sing a part of their, creating a new group song.

Bibliography(all the activities have been modified from the original ones)

– http://www.12days.com/library/carols/12daysofxmas.htm– http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp290-07.shtml– http://world-english.org/adjectiveplacement.htm– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cSZD1GPuU– http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/a/adjective_order_2.htm– http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/december_tree.doc

Merry Christmas to all of you!! Jojojo