Xmas things with can and can’t games
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Can you for abilities questions on Christmas vocabulary, including testing each other on actions, noises, spelling and pronunciation
Lesson Plan Content:
Xmas things with can and can’t games
Choose one of the Xmas question cards and ask your partner if they can do that.
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Make a question about Xmas from the table and ask your partner if they can do that.
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Use one of the verb cards to make as many “Can you…?” questions about Xmas for each other as you can, checking if you can do each thing, then change cards.
The scoring is:
- One point for saying “No, I can’t”
- Two points for saying “Yes, I can” and then doing it successfully
- No points for saying “Yes, I can” but then not doing it successfully
Your teacher will tell you if you both get those points, or if only the person who answered the question gets the points.
When your teacher stops that game, ask about any vocabulary which you can’t understand.
Play a different game from the list above. Your teacher will tell you if the scoring rules have changed or not.
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Cards to cut up or tick off
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1. Can you mime using an advent calendar?
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2. Can you cut paper into the shape of a candy cane?
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3. Can you draw Santa in the chimney?
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4. Can you do the action of cutting a Christmas cake?
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5. Can you say “Christmas card” six times?
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6. Can you make the noise of a Christmas cracker?
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7. Can you draw a Christmas stocking in ten seconds?
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8. Can you hum a song about a Christmas tree?
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9. Can you make decorations from paper?
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10. Can you count the letters in “elf”?
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11. Can you draw a fireplace before I count to ten?
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12. Can you say the first letter in “gingerbread”?
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13. Can you make a holly leaf by ripping paper?
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14. Can you say how many letters “marzipan” has?
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15. Can you name two things in a nativity scene?
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16. Can you tear paper into the shape of a party hat?
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17. Can you draw three pine cones in one minute?
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18. Can you say the colours of a poinsettia?
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19. Can you make the sound of opening a present?
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20. Can you mime wrapping a present?
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21. Can you run like a reindeer?/ Can you do the actions of a reindeer?
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22. Can you say “roast potatoes” five times in ten seconds?
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23. Can you sing a song about Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer?
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24. Can you say the last letter of “sack”?
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25. Can you make the noise of Santa laughing?
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26. Can you draw Santa’s sleigh with only one line?
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27. Can you guess how many buttons the other person will draw on a snowman?
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28. Can you spell “turkey”?
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29. Can you make the shape of a star with your hand(s)?
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Table to make questions from
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Can you |
act like count the letters in cut out do the action of draw draw… with 1 line find guess how many guess… hum a song about make make… from paper make… from a hand make the noise of make the sound of make the shape of make origami of mime name name two things in name 3 things on name… things… rip paper into run like say say how many say the colours of say the 1st letter of say the last letter of say the name of sing a song about spell touch tear paper into tear the shape of write |
(a) (an) (the) (two) (…) |
advent calendar button carrot nose Christmas cake Christmas card Christmas cracker Christmas stocking Christmas tree decoration elf fireplace gingerbread holly/ holly leaf marzipan nativity scene opening a present party hat pine cone reindeer ribbon roast potatoes Rudolph sack Santa Santa laughing Santa’s sleigh sleigh snow snowman star turkey wrapping wrapping paper |
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(three times) (… times) (in ten seconds) (in … seconds) (in one minute) (in … minutes) (before I count to 10) (before I count to…) |
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Verb cards to make many questions from
Use one of the verb cards to make as many “Can you…?” questions about Xmas for each other as you can, checking if you can do each thing, then change cards.
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act like/ mime/ do the action of
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count the letters in/ say how many letters in
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cut out |
draw |
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draw… with one line
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find |
guess how many |
guess… |
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hum a song about
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make |
make… from paper/ make origami of |
make… from your hand(s) |
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make the noise of/ sound of
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name |
name two things in/ two things on |
rip paper into/ tear the shape of |
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run like
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say/ pronounce/ say the name of |
say how many |
say the colours of |
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say the first letter of
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say the last letter of |
sing a song about |
spell/ say the spelling of |
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touch
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write/ write the spelling of |
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