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Christmas bingo card generator (any level)  \nI bet you have played bingo at least once in your life. Well, so have our students, and we can use that knowledge and that spirit of competition to play a Christmas-themed game (and review a bit of vocabulary while we’re at it). The cool thing? You can quickly and easily create your own set of Christmas bingo cards with this website. Enter the Christmas vocabulary your want to  \ninclude in the game, decide your settings, click next step and choose “30 cards for free”: here are your bingo cards ready to print!  \n2. Write a letter to Santa with prompts (A1-A2)  \nThis activity is well-suited for lower levels, though anyone can do it as we could all write a letter to Santa. Thanks to this online activity, students have to answer simple questions and atthe end, the website pulls the answers together to form quite a cool letter to Santa Claus.  \n3. Christmas memory (A1-B1)  \nRemember Christmas? Have your students play this Christmas-themed memory game: set thema time and ask them not only to play the game but also to write down as many of the things they see. At the end of the set time, which students won the most and also remembers the most words?  \n4. All I want for Christmas is you: elision game (A2-B1)  \nIf you came to the LanguagEd Day, you’ll remember that in my webinar, I talked about using gap-fills creatively and gave a tutorial on how to use Lyrics Training (and if you didn’t come, you can still watch all the videos and slides with 20% off until the end of 2022) . For Christmas, I thought I’d put the two together, so I took the uber-famous song by Mariah Carey and made a gap-fill game with a twist: the words gapped are all examples of elision, i.e. the last sound is omitted in the way they’re pronounced. For example, think about how Carey says “all I want for Christmas is you”: the /t/ in the word want is omitted. Students listen and play the game, then  \nyou can ask them if they noticed something in how all the words are pronounced. If they didn’t, you can tell them! This raises their awareness of how English is pronounced in real, spontaneous speech (aside from, of course, training their listening skills) .  \n5. Christmas taboo cards (any level)  \nTaboo is truly one of the games I’ve played most often in class, especially at the end of long lessons, long days or – as is the case now – a long semester! Print these Christmas-themed taboo cards. Put students in teams and taking turns, one person in the team has a set time (maybe give them a bit more than the one minute in the standard game) and they have to explain the words in bold on the cards without using the other words. You can review some vocabulary in class in the previous days or remove some cards if you think they’ll be too difficult. Better yet: why not give students 20 minutes to make their own cards?  \n6. Google Santa Tracker (any level)  \nDid you know Google has quite a few Santa-themed games? My favourite is this Elf Glider. It’s easy to play and accessible: an elf on a glider has to dodge a number of obstacles. Put students in pairs and set them a time (I’d recommend 5 to 10 minutes). First, student A will play the game and student B will write down the names ofas many of the objects the elf dodged. Then, the students swap roles. They continue swapping roles until the time ends. If they need help finding the names of the obstacles, they can be allowed to use a dictionary. By repeating the game, they repeat the task: one of the many advantages oftask repetition is vocabulary consolidation (not to mention the motivation given by the competition aspect!)  \n7. December holidays around the world reading (A2 and up)  \nDecember is not just Christmas. There are lots of resources out there about the many other festivities celebrated in December but this text is nice and short. You can do lots of things with it: brainstorm all the holiday names students know, ask them to check","cbCaikqcpz5RkYd2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikqcpz5RkYd2","pdf",248103,"English","# 10 best Christmas games and activities\n## Christmas bingo card generator (any level)\n## Write a letter to Santa with prompts (A1-A2)\n## Christmas memory (A1-B1)\n## All I want for Christmas is you: elision game (A2-B1)\n## Christmas taboo cards (any level)\n## Google Santa Tracker (any level)\n## December holidays around the world reading (A2 and up)\n## Video: The Weirdest Christmas Traditions From Around The World (A2 and up)\n## Twenty questions on Christmas (any level)\n## Submit your New Year’s wish to the Times Square wishing wall (any level)","[{\"question\":\"What levels are covered by these Christmas activities?\",\"answer\":\"The activities span from A1 up to B1 and include options labeled “any level” and “A2 and up,” allowing flexible selection for mixed classes.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the games support language learning?\",\"answer\":\"They target specific skills such as vocabulary practice, listening and pronunciation awareness, reading and information sharing, and grammar review through structured interaction (e.g., yes/no questions).\"},{\"question\":\"What classroom organization is recommended for games like Taboo or Google Santa Tracker?\",\"answer\":\"Taboo is suggested for teams with timed turns, while Google Santa Tracker uses pairs with students swapping roles to record obstacle names.\"}]","The 10 best Christmas games and activities - read online free | PDF",1790869337]