Santa Claus is coming to town!

Lyrics video: https://youtu.be/HWv72L4wgCc

Mariah Carey version: https://youtu.be/XaVtSHrP888

The Journey

Now watch this video: https://youtu.be/0N8axp9nHNU

and answer the following questions.

(Ideas from http://film-english.com/)

Reading: Christmas customs in the UK

Christmas activities

http://markaki-students.blogspot.gr/2013/12/christmas-activities-for-all-age-groups.html

 

You'll love the game:

 

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/fun-games/run-santa-run

Letter to Santa Claus

Dear Santa Claus

I'm writing this letter for you because I want to make some wishes for the New Year!!

Well I hope New Year to bring warm, health and happiness to all people from all over

the world, especially into children's hearts.I wish your spirit to take away the unhappiness and the desperation from all the people's faces and to give them hope and strength.And for my part,

there is one thing I want to wish,and that is for my family and my relatives to always be happy 

and healthy and their lives to be full with beautiful moments!!!!I hope you to help me and my wishes become reality.

                                                                                                        Best regards/ Yours faithfully

                                                                                                       Voula.

Letter to Santa Claus

Dear Santa Claus,


     I' m writing because I want to ask you for a favor.
First of all I want to say thank you because you make us happy with your presents and your wishes
These days I wish all people to possess anything they really want, please make my wish come true..
   Send to children around the world a lot of presents and give health and happiness to the poor people.Help the ill and  the older people to find a big hug and pure love from their relatives.Also keep away the crimes and the robberies and try to help us to find the real love .Teach us to  love each other and  drive away the pain and the bad feelings.You do anything you think necessary to be really happy.And about me ,help me to have a trip to the Rome which I want it so much  ..And I , in turn, wish you  a creative fruitful and prosperous  new year with a lot of fireworks displays ..
    That 's all for now ,give my greetings to your wife, Mrs  Claus.

Best wishes,
Vangelio

Reading competition!

Christmas customs: Reading Competition from  Maria Markaki School of Foreign Languages


Can you answer the questions? Good luck and... Merry Christmas!!!

Christmas games!

Online Christmas Activities

Quiz on a fantastic Christmas song!

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/songs/christmas/elementary/all-i-want-for-christmas.html 

The nightmare before Christmas

The book describes the Halloween celebration .In this story every year the dead people on 31 October celebrate the Halloween in Halloween-Town. All witches, vampires and skeletons are doing scary things that day ,but Jack who is the scariest of all he doesn 't like scaring the people any more and he is unhappy. So one day he decides to leave from the Halloween-Town for a better future .After he leaves, he discovers the Christmas-Town . In this city the people are happy and they wait for the Santa Claus to bring them presents.Suddenly he feels happy and he decides to do the same thing in Halloween-Town. He returns in his Town and he asks from the people to help him.And they do it.They kidnap the Santa Claus and they take him in scary town and Jack undertakes his position .But the nightmare before Christmas is beginning. When Jack (took-> use present simple or past simple only!) takes the sleigh and he starts to share the presents in Christmas town they are all afraid and they start to scream,because the presents which are made by witches and vampires are frightening .When Jack understands his mistake he goes back and he sets free the old man..And then the Santa Claus goes back to his place.The nightmare before Christmas ends happily for everybody. The two stars become friends and often they visit each other and they talk about their adventures, In this book the writer combines the Halloween celebration with the Christmas celebration very successfully ...