Christmas

Información del recurso .................................................................................. 2

Students ................................................................................................... 3

Introduction ............................................................................................... 4

Activity 1: Different customs ........................................................................ 5

Activity 2: Silent Night ................................................................................ 7

Activity 3: Our Christmas Card ..................................................................... 9

Self-evaluation .......................................................................................... 10

Final Activity ............................................................................................. 11

Recursos TIC................................................................................................ 13

Mapa conceptual .......................................................................................... 14

Glosario....................................................................................................... 15

Ayuda ......................................................................................................... 16

Créditos ...................................................................................................... 17

Información del recurso

Secuencia didáctica: Christmas

Área curricular: Lengua extranjera Inglés

Tercer ciclo de primaria

Illustration. Christmas. Source: Intef.

A lo largo del recurso se trabajará con el vocabulario específico de la Navidad, así

como las costumbres de esta festividad. Todo ello se llevará a cabo a través de

diferentes ejercicios y tareas que presenten tanto el vocabulario específico como las expresiones comúnmente utilizadas para tales fines.

Students

Illustration. John and Mary.

To start off

In this unit, John and Mary will celebrate Christmas. This unit is divided into four activities:

Activity 1: In this activity, you will do some tasks about Christmas. You will

make a word cloud about this festivity.

Activity 2: In this activity you will sing a Chritsmas Carol: Silent Night.

Activity 3: In this activity you will to make a Christmas card.

Final activity: In this activity you will make an interview to Santa Claus

and you will record it.

At the end of this unit, you will have done several types of activities: you will have

to work with classmates or independently, you will have to think, to go a step ahead if you want more information, to evaluate yourself, etc.

These are some of the skills you will practise by doing these activities.

You will learn a lot of vocabulary related to Christmas. You will learn some

Christmas carols and other cultural aspects.

You will work individually and also in pairs. Be polite with your classmates

every time you work with them.

You will use audio recording software.

Introduction

Illustration. Christmas.

Help John and Mary by doing the following activities about Christmas:

Activity 1. Different customs.

Activity 2. Silent Night.

Activity 3. Our Christmas card.

Final activity. Glog about Santa and The Three Wise Men.

Activity 1: Different customs

Let's practise together. Word clouds

First, click on this link to learn some vocabulay about Christmas:

Christmas vocabulary.

You will talk about Christmas with your teacher and your classmates. But before, think about the answers for the following questions:

Does your religion celebrate Christmas?

Do you celebrate Christmas in your home town?

What is the weather like in your home country at Christmas?

What do people in your town do at Christmas?

Do you like this celebration?

Is it a family celebration for you?

Do any members of your family come to visit you?

You will use the vocabulary that you have learnt to talk about Christmas and other festivities in other cultures. Try to choose some important words.

When you finish, write words about Chistmas in a text document and send it to

your teacher by email.

Now, you will work in pairs. Are you ready? Let's go!

You have to make a word cloud using Wordle. Choose ten words about Christmas

for your personal cloud. When you finish, you exchange it with your classmates. Then, you and your classmates will correct each other.

Finaly, paste the code to the classroom blog to share it with your classmates and with your family.

Let's practise together. La Befana

You will work in groups of four people. Are you ready?

You have to make a presentation about La Befana. Write about the following

aspects:

What is "La Befana"?

What country celebrates it?

What is the date of the celebration?

Is there any similar tradition in Spain?

You can find some information by visiting the following links:

Epiphany "La Befana".

Befana.

You have to insert as many pictures as necessary to illustrate the answers to the questions above. Visit the following links to find the pictures:

Creative Commons.

Intef Images and Sounds Repository.

Mediateca.

Pics4Learning.

When you finish, share your presentation with your teacher using Authorstream.

Authorstream.

Later, write a post in the classroom blog that contains a link to your presentation.

Activity 2: Silent Night

Illustration. The Christmas holidays.

It's your turn. Silent Night

In this activity you will learn a typical Christmas carol. You can see the movie

clicking on this link.

Silent Night.

After watching the video, fill in the blanks in the activity that you can find by visiting this link:

Silent Night. Exercise.

Take screenshots of each activity that you do (you may use GIMP), paste them into

a text document and then, share it with your teacher using Google Docs.

Let's practise together. Singer star

You will work in groups of three people. Are you ready? You have to sing the carol

entitled "Silent Night" and record your song. You can use Audacity to record it.

Audacity.

If you visit this link, you can find an instrumental version of "Silent Night", which you have to use to make your recording.

Instrumental Christmas.

If you want, you can use this text document to read the lyrics of the song: "Silent Night" (lyrics). (Descargar del recurso).

Finally, upload your recording to a podcast site. You can use Ivoox:

Ivoox.

Create a post in the classroom Blog and paste the code of your podcast to share it

with your classmates and your teacher.

If you like, you may record a different Christmas carol: "The Christmas Alphabet", "Rudolf the Red nosed Reindeer", or "Frosty The Snowman".

Let's practise together. What do you know

about Santa Claus?

In this activity you will work in groups of four. Are you ready? Let's go!

You have to write ten questions about Santa Claus in a text document that you

have to share with your teacher using Google Docs.

You will find the answers to these questions following the links below:

Greetings from Rovaniemi - The Official Hometown of Santa.

Santa Claus.

Santa Claus II.

When you finish your questions, upload the document using Google Docs; then, the game will start.

Your teacher will show one of your questions on the interactive whiteboard, and the other groups have to guess the answer.

The first group that answers the question correctly will win one point.

Your teacher will show the rest of the questions of your group. Then, the game will continue with other group's questions.

The group with the highest score will be the winner of the game.

Activity 3: Our Christmas Card

Let's practise together. Our Christmas card

In this activity you will make a Christmas card using Impress. You will work in

groups. Are you ready?

There will be four groups in your class; so, you will make four Christmas cards.

To make the presentation, you will have to do the following tasks:

Search and insert pictures. You are going to search the Internet to find

pictures that illustrate words about Christmas. You may visit these links to

do that:

Creative Commons.

Intef Images and Sounds Repository.

Mediateca. Pics4Learning.

Search and insert multimedia elements into your card: sounds, movies,

links... You can insert your Silent Night song. You can visit this link to find some contest:

Intef Images and Sounds Repository.

Christmas carols (YouTube).

Christmas songs (YouTube).

Write the text that you want to use in your Christmas card.

When you finish your Christmas card, show it on the interactive whiteboard so that the whole class can see it.

Make the appropriate changes in your Christmas card and then upload it using

Authorstream. Then, publish this link on the classroom Blog to share it with the classmates and with your family.

Also, send your template to your teacher by mail or webmail.

It's your turn. My Christmas

In this activity you will make a description.

You need a photograph about Christmas. You can use a picture of something that

you have got at home, for example: your Christmas tree, your Christmas decorations, your nativity scene, etc.

Then, insert the picture onto a text document and write a description about this picture. When you finish, send the document to your teacher by email.

When your teacher has all the pictures and descriptions, he or she will share them with you all.

Self-evaluation

Before starting the final evaluation, check what you have learnt during all the

activities you have done.

Final Activity

Illustration. Final activity.

Task. Glog about Santa and The Three Wise Men

In this activity you wil work in pairs. Are you ready?

You have to make a presentation about Santa Claus and "The Three Wise Men". You may find information in these links:

The Three Wise Men.

Santa Claus II.

Your teacher will assess your grammar. When you finish, you have to send the presentation to your teacher by email.

Now, make a digital glog (poster) about Santa Claus and "The Three Wise Men"

using Glogster EDU (click on the link below to enter). It's fun and very easy! You

only have to visit the following website:

Glogster EDU.

Now, search the Internet to find a picture, more information, and a video about

Santa Claus and "The Three Wise Men". There are a lot of useful contents in the following websites:

Santa Claus (YouTube).

The Three Wise Men (YouTube).

Wikipedia.

Intef Images and Sounds Repository.

Creative Commons.

Pics4Learning.

Mediateca.

When you have finished, write a post in the classroom blog with a link to your glog.

Recursos TIC

Programas y aplicaciones:

Authorstream.

Blogger.

Glogster EDU.

Google Docs.

Grabación y edición de audios. Audacity.

Impress. Paquete Open Office.

Ivoox Podcasting.

Malted.

Programa de edición de imágenes GIMP.

Writer. Paquete OpenOffice.

Wordle.

Sitios web utilizados durante la secuencia:

Befana.

Epiphany "La Befana".

Christmas carols (YouTube).

Christmas songs (YouTube).

Christmas vocabulary.

Festival and special days.

Instrumental Christmas.

Google.

Greetings from Rovaniemi - The Official Hometown of Santa.

Santa Claus.

Santa Claus II.

Silent Night (YouTube).

The Three Wise Men.

Wikipedia.

YouTube.

Bancos de imágenes con Licencia Libre o Creative Commons:

Banco de imágenes y sonidos de Intef.

Banco de imágenes Pics4 Learning.

Buscador de imágenes Creative Commons.

Mediateca.

Mapa conceptual

Ilustración. Mapa conceptual.

Glosario

Bethlehem: Belén.

Candle: vela.

Candy: caramelo.

Christmas: navidad.

Folklore: folklore.

Gifts: regalos.

Lights: luces.

Ornament: adorno.

Present: presente (regalo).

Reindeer: reno.

Sack: saco.

Saint: santo / san.

Sleigh: trineo.

Toy: juguete.

Tree: árbol.

Ayuda

Cada pantalla del recurso tiene una estructura definida:

Las actividades se inician siempre con una situación o presentación del

tema que vas a trabajar.

A continuación se proponen una serie de actividades, para trabajar de

manera individual o colaborativamente con el grupo. Se trata de "Es tu

turno" o "Practiquemos juntos". En estas actividades tendrás que realizar alguna acción:

Actividades autoevaluables, para que puedas practicar con los

conceptos.

Actividades que tendrás que trabajar individualmente o

colaborativamente, y el resultado enviarlo a tu profesor o

profesora para evaluarlo. Recursos para profundizar en el tema.

En ocasiones puedes encontrarte información complementaria, "Sabías...",

con información que puede resultarte interesante relacionada con el

contenido con el que has estado trabajando, acompañado con ejercicios de autoevaluación de diferente tipología.

Créditos

Este material didáctico digital ha sido desarrollado por el Ministerio de Educación,

Cultura y Deporte, el Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y Formación del

Profesorado, el Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo y la entidad pública

empresarial Red.es. Se ha desarrollado en el marco del programa Escuela 2.0 y

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