ADVENT CALENDAR

CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES BOOKLET

1 COLOURING GAME
Colour the candles according to the
following instructions
1. Colour the wreath green.
2. Colour the first, the second and the
fourth candles purple.
3. Colour the third candle rose.
4. Colour the berries red.
5. Draw a flame on the first candle.

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2 HIDDEN MESSAGE

1. Unscramble the letters to get a message.

3 HANGMAN

Students have to find out the word.

S N O W F L A K E

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4 PICTURE CROSSWORD
Write the name of the objects in the crossword.

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5 GAP FILLING
Listen to the song and fill in the gaps with the correct word.
SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN

You _____________watch out,

You _____________ not cry,
_____________ not pout,
I'm telling you why:
Santa Claus is coming to town!
He's making a _____________,
And checking it twice;
Gonna find out Who's naughty and _____________.
Santa Claus is coming to town!
He sees you when you're _____________,
He _____________ when you're awake,
He knows if you've been bad or _____________,
So be _____________ for goodness sake!
O! You _____________ watch out,
You _____________ not cry,
_____________ not pout,
I'm telling you why:
Santa Claus is coming to town!
Santa Claus is coming to town!

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 6 St Nicholas cloze
St Nicholas Day in Hungary
Complete the text with the words from the box.
There is one extra word that you do not need.

candy window good evening Christmas day

boots children naughty comes night gifts

December 6th is a special day for ________________in Hungary. This is the

_______________ when St Nicholas (Santa Claus) _________________ to Hungary.
On the ___________________________of the 5th December children polish their
____________________ and put them in the ____________________. During the
____________________ St. Nicholas/Santa Claus will come and fill their boots with
__________________, fruit, chocolate and small _________________.
___________________children find twigs painted gold. Most children get some of
each as no one is all ______________or all bad.

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7 WORD COLLECTION
Collect words in connection with winter.
VERBS:

NOUNS:

ADJECTIVES: WINTER

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8 DOUBLE PUZZLE
Unscramble each of the clue words.
Copy the letters in the numbered cells to other cells with the same number.
Follow the instruction.

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9 MATCH THE PICTURES AND THE WORDS
1 6
CHRISTMAS
A ANGEL F
TREE

2 7
B BAUBLES G HOLLY

3 8
C BELL H SNOWFLAKE

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D CANDYCANE I STOCKING

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CHRISTMAS
E J WREATH
PUDDING

A ___________ B ___________ C ___________ D __________ E

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F ___________ G ___________ H____________ I___________ J
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10 WORD SEARCH
Find these words

Q N H B S Y K L L S L D C N Z
R N Y S N O W F L A K E A T H
G G O U O H Z O F N G M N X K
K R C U I L G C I T D N D P Y
Y A D P T Q L I R A P G Y S G
J K E K A N K G E C I O C F F
H Y E K R U T R P L O R A C L
O N Z X O T B E L A S I N Y Y
N M R M C R O U A U X N E J T
F K Q P E W E Q C S Y N E N W
M A T G D C H H E Z M N D U R
E D N F N R S Q O I G J I S C
A I U F G W A W H K M X V S J
G Z H F C R A C K E R M D T M
W S E S T L Y Z U D U W B Z N

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11 ADVENT CLOZE
Complete the text with the words from the box. You do not need all of
them.

Sunday chocolate find candles numbers

purple Santa Claus Christmas first open

ADVENT

Advent is a time before _______________. Advent starts on the

fourth _______________ before December 25th. In 2013 the
____________ Sunday of Advent is on December 1st.
Advent is a time of waiting and preparation for the celebration of
Christmas.

Advent Calendar
It is a paper box with a picture and 24 small doors with __________on.
Children ___________ a door every day during advent. They
____________ a piece of ___________ behind each door.
Advent wreath
There are four ______________ on the advent wreath. Three of the
candles are _____________ and one is rose (pink).
People light a candle on each Advent Sunday.

12 RUNNING DICTATION
Christmas carols
Some days before Christmas we can see and
hear carol singers in the streets or in public
places in Britain. They sing religious songs.
These songs are called carols.
They are about Jesus Christ and the time
when he was born.
Famous Christmas Carols are:
- O Come all ye Faithful
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Away in a Manger

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Carol singers go from house to house singing carols and collecting money
for charity.

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13 SONG
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Listen to the song and underline the correct
words.
Rudolph, the red-eyed / nosed reindeer
had a very shiny eye /nose.

And if you ever saw him,

you would even say /see it glows.

All of the other reindeer

used to laugh / love and call him names /games.
They never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer names / games.

Then one foggy / cloudy Christmas Eve

Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose / eyes so bright,
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"

Then all the reindeer loved /left him

as they shouted / counted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nosed / eyed reindeer,
you'll go down in history / our story.

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From which
Christmas carols are
these lines from?

1 Let every heart prepare him

room,
An heaven and nature sing
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2 Oh star of wonder, star of
night,
Star with royal beauty
bright____________________
3 Come and behold Him, Born
the King of Angels,
O, come let us adore Him
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4 This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guide and
angels sing _____________
5 Above thy deep and
dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
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15 CHRISTMAS CRYPTOGRAM
Break the code to get the message

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16 NOUGHTS AND CROSSES
Game Description
Noughts and crosses) or (Tic-tac-toe) is a game for two teams, X and O,
who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid. The students who
succeed in placing three respective marks in a horizontal, vertical, or
diagonal row win the game.
The following example game is won by the first team, X:

Divide your class into two teams. Draw a grid of 9

1 2 3 squares on the board. Write a number into each square.
Behind each square there is a task for the teams. These
4 5 6 tasks can be definitions for stronger students and
flashcards for weaker students / beginners. Team A and
7 8 9 Team B will take turns to say a number. When they get
the task they have to say the correct answer. When they
succeeded in answering the question, they will gain
that square and you mark it on the board. Now it is the
other team’s turn.

1 a metal thing that rings

2 a plant that you decorate on 24th December

3 a traditional Christmas dessert

4 people who sing religious songs before Christmas

in the streets and public places
5 you light them on the Advent wreath

6 people used to send these to each other wishing

a Merry Christmas
7 a plant with red berries used for decoration at
Christmas
8 something made of brightly coloured paper which
explodes harmlessly when the ends are pulled

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 9 colourful balls used for decoration

EXTRA QUESTIONS

1 a structure on the roof, smoke from a fire leaves the house through it
(CHIMNEY)
2 children get these presents at Christmas and they can play with them
(TOYS)
3 we usually put these things under the Christmas tree (PRESENTS)
4 a plant with white berries used for decoration at Christmas (MISTLETOE)
5 a piece of stiff paper with a picture and 24 small doors with numbers on it
(ADVENT CALENDAR)
6 another name for Santa Claus (ST NICHOLAS, FATHER
CHRISTMAS, KRIS KRINGLE)
7 Santa’s little helpers (ELVES)
8 a town where Jesus was born (BETLEHEM)
9 animals that pull Santa’s sleigh (REINDEER)

QUESTIONS:
SET 3
1 a period of four weeks before Christmas (ADVENT)
2 Religious songs about the birth of Jesus (CHRISTMAS CAROLS)
3 Children usually hang them up on the fireplace at Christmas (STOCKINGS)
4 they shine in the sky at night (STARS)
5 a special candy at Christmas (CANDY CANE)
6 a messenger with wings, who comes from God (ANGEL)
7 there are four candles on it (ADVENT WREATH)
8 Santa usually checks this to see who was naughty or nice (LIST)
9 Santa travels in it (SLEIGH)

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A dog A reindeer Herbie Foggy

2 What’s the
1 Who is
name of the
Rudolph? famous
snowman?

A bear Frosty

A horse Snowy

In the Under
Stockings Boots
window the
Christma
4 Where s
3 What do
children hang does Santa tree
up on the Claus put the
fireplace on presents?
the 24th
December?
Under the Under the
Caps
bed mistletoe

Mittens

Santa’s cap Candy canes

Kris Kringle Winter Man

5 What do
people 6 Which is
usually pull not Santa’s
at name?
WishbonesChristmas?
Father
Christmas
Saint
Crackers Nicholas

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CHRISTMAS
BELLS
TREE
CHRISTMAS
ANGEL PUDDING

CANDYCANE
SNOWFLAKE CANDYCANE BELLS

WREATH STOCKING
STOCKING WREATH

CHRISTMAS
ANGEL SNOWFLAKE
PUDDING
CHRISTMAS
TREE

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CHRISTMAS
ANGEL
PUDDING
CHRISTMAS
TREE

WREATH
SNOWMAN
STOCKING

CANDYCANE
BELLS
SNOWFLAKE

CHRISTMAS
BELLS
TREE
ANGEL

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 SNOWFLAKE SLEIGH

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SONG
Complete the song.

City sidewalks busy sidewalks

Dressed in ___________ style
In the air
There's a feeling
of _______________
Children laughing
____________ passing
Meeting smile after _______________
And on _____________ street corner you'll hear

Silver ___________ silver ____________

It's _____________ time in the city
Ring a ling hear them ring
Soon it will be ___________ day
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21 Colour the picture.

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 Colour the gingerbread man brown.
Colour the gingerbread man’s cheeks red.
Colour the buttons red.

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22 CODED MESSAGE
Unscramble the words to get the message and follow the instruction.

23 Colour the picture.

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Colour the tree green and brown.
Colour the star yellow.
Colour the baubles red, yellow, green,
blue, purple and white.

24 CODED MESSAGE

Break the code to get the message.

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ADVENT CALENDAR

KEY AND NOTES

1 COLOURING GAME

KEY

2 HIDDEN MESSAGE
KEY:
Advent is the period of four weeks before Christmas..

3 HANGMAN
KEY:
SNOWFLAKE

4 PICTURE CROSSWORD
KEY:

ADVENT

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5 GAP FILLING
KEY:

Better, better, Better, list, nice, sleeping, knows, good,

good, better, better, Better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWv72L4wgCc

6 St Nicholas cloze
KEY:

children, day, comes, evening, boots, window, night, candy,

gifts,

naughty, good

EXTRA WORD: Christmas

7 WORD COLLECTION
KEY:

For example:
VERB: make a snow angel
NOUN: snowman
ADJECTIVE: freezing cold.

8 DOUBLE PUZZLE
KEY:

1. SANTA, 2 ANGEL, 3. PRESENT, 4. STOCKINGS, 5. FIREPLACE, 6.

SLEIGH,
7. REINDEER, 8. WREATH, 9. CANDLE, 10. TREE, 11. HOLLY, 12.
MISTLETOE

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KEY:

DRAW A FLAME ON THE SECOND CANDLE

9 MATCH THE PICTURES AND THE WORDS

A-6 B-5 C-9 D-8 E-2
F-10 G-1 H-4 I-3 J-7

10 WORD SEARCH
Solution
+ + + + S + + + + S + + C N +
+ + + S N O W F L A K E A + +
+ + + + O H + + F N + M N + +
+ + + + I + G + I T D + D + +
+ + + + T + + I R A + + Y + +
+ + + + A + + + E C + + C + +
+ Y E K R U T R P L O R A C +
+ + + + O + B + L A S + N Y +
+ + + + C R + + A U + + E + +
+ + + + E + + + C S + N + + +
+ + + G D + + + E + M + + + +
+ + N + + R + + + I + + + + +
+ I + + + + A + H + + + + + +
G + + + C R A C K E R + + + +
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

(Over, Down, Direction)

CANDYCANE(13,1,S)
CARD(8,14,NW)
CAROL(14,7,W)
CHIMNEY(8,14,NE)
CRACKER(5,14,E)
DECORATIONS(5,11,N)
FIREPLACE(9,3,S)
GINGERBREADMAN(1,14,NE)
SANTACLAUS(10,1,S)
SLEIGH(11,8,NW)
SNOWFLAKE(4,2,E)
TURKEY(7,7,W)

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11 ADVENT CLOZE
Christmas, Sunday, first, numbers, open, find, chocolate,
candles, purple

KEY:

Extra word: Santa Claus

12 RUNNING DICTATION
Running dictation - Rules
Divide the group into teams of four or five people.
Stick the text of the Running dictation on the wall.
A student from each team has to run from his/her seat to the wall and read
the information. Then he/she has to run back to his/her seat and dictate the
sentence or phrase he has read in the text.
Then another student has to run to the wall, read the information in the
text and dictate what he/she can remember.

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nosed, nose, say, laugh, names, games, foggy, nose, loved,
shouted, history
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQpP9Ippfps
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1 Let every heart prepare him Room,
An heaven and nature sing Joy to the
World
2 Oh star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright We Three
Kings
3 Come and behold Him, Born the King of Angels,
O, come let us adore Him O Come, all Ye
Faithful
4 This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guide and angels sing What Child is
This?
5 Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by O Little Town
of Bethlehem
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CHRISTMAS CRYPTOGRAM
KEY
DRAW A FLAME ON THIRD CANDLE
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1 bell
2 Christmas tree
3 Christmas pudding
4 carol singers
5 candles
6 Christmas cards
7 holly
8 Christmas crackers
9 baubles
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1 Reindeer
2 Frosty
3 Stockings
4 Under the Christmas tree
5 Crackers
6 Winter Man
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18 Memory
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19 BINGO
Wordlist
CHRISTMAS PUDDING, CHRISTMAS TREE, BELLS,
SNOWFLAKE, ANGEL, STOCKING, CANDYCANE,
SNOWMAN, WREATH, SLEIGH
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Silver Bells
City sidewalks busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style
In the air
There's a feeling
of Christmas
Children laughing
People passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you'll hear

Silver bells silver bells

It's Christmas time in the city
Ring a ling hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day
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Draw a flame on the fourth candle.
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Colouring

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Merry Christmas!

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