Listening Plan

An American Christmas

Grade 3 Elementary School

By David Woelke
 Plan
Pre-Listening
Play Christmas music as students enter class
Have a worksheet with Christmas pictures for vocabulary
Listening
Play the transcript
Have a worksheet for students to circle words they hear.
Cloze Exercise
Post Listening
Pair work; have students report on what their partner
wants for Christmas based on a set of questions.
 Plan
Pre-Listening
Play Christmas music as students enter class
Have a worksheet with Christmas pictures for vocabulary
Listening
Play the transcript
Have a worksheet for students to circle words they hear.
Cloze Exercise
Post Listening
Pair work; have students report on what their partner
wants for Christmas based on a set of questions.
ANGEL BABY JESUS BALL

BELL BOW CANDLE

 CANDY
 CAROL CAROLERS
CANE

 CHIMNEY  CRACKER   CRIB

 GINGERBRE
 ELF  HOLLY
AD MAN

LETTER LIGHTS MANGER

MISTLETOE PRESENT REINDEER

ROBIN SANTA SHEPHERD

SLEIGH SNOWFLAKE SNOWMAN

STAR STOCKING TOY

TREE WISEMAN WREATH

 Plan
Pre-Listening
Play Christmas music as students enter class
Have a worksheet with Christmas pictures for vocabulary
Listening
Play the transcript
Have a worksheet for students to circle words they hear.
Cloze Exercise
Post Listening
Pair work; have students report on what their partner
wants for Christmas based on a set of questions.
Listen and circle the words you hear.
http://esl-lab.com/santa/santasc1.htm
Listen and circle the words you hear.
 Man: Well, Christmas is almost here. So, what do you want from Santa this year?
 Micky: A car and walkie-talkies.
 Man: Really? Well, and what about you, Emily? What do you want for Christmas?
 Emily: If I can't have a Barbie , um, I would have some fragile dolls. And if
I can't have some fragile dolls, it doesn't really matter what I get.
 Man: Wow. Well, I'm , and Santa is coming. And how is Santa
going to get inside the house, Micky?
 Micky: Um, go down the chimney . . .
 Man: Okay, so he's going to go down the chimney, and should we anything
for Santa?
 Micky: Yeah!
 Man: What are we going to prepare for him, Emily?
 Emily: Um. We could prepare some cookies for him and some hot chocolate, and, um, we
could give Rudolph some, um, hot chocolate in a bowl and a cookie. And we could give
some of the some cookies and some hot chocolate in a bowl.
 Man: Well, what do you think? They, Um, reindeer probably don't eat cookies, but what
else could we give them, Micky?
 Micky: Um, .
 Man: Ah, that's good. And, uh . . .
 Emily: Oranges and .
 Man: Okay and what do you think we go to bed?
 Emily: Um, seven.
 Man: About seven o'clock. Well, that's exciting. I'm happy that Christmas is
coming.
Compare your answers with 2 other
students.
 Plan
Pre-Listening
Play Christmas music as students enter class
Have a worksheet with Christmas pictures for vocabulary
 Listening
Play the transcript
Have a worksheet for students to circle words they hear.
Cloze Exercise
Post Listening
Pair work; have students report on what their partner
wants for Christmas based on a set of questions.
Ask your partner these questions.

Questions Answers
What are three things you want for 1
Christmas? 2
3
Did you get a Christmas gift last
year?
If YES, what?
Micky thinks reindeer like apples,
bananas and oranges. What food
do you think reindeer like?
Comments

There were many more activities I could have used. If

I need more activities, I could use gap exercises by
putting the students in groups of 3. Each person in the
group has a copy of the text with words missing. The
partners read the papers to one another giving their
partners the information needed to complete the sheets.

The focus is on meaning but Korean students may not

be familiar with Christmas so a strong vocabulary
focus is needed.
THE END