Now that Christmas is almost here, today we are going to work on a special song. As you know, songs help us improve both our listening and speaking skills. In case you are following this class from home, in the following link you can download the worksheet to fill the gaps on it.
First, read all the verses and the chorus and try to predict the type of words that might fit in each one of the blanks. This strategy helps you with your listening skills. After reading it, it is time to listen to the song!
You can listen to it as many times as you need or wish. After that, compare your answers with the following video that shows the lyrics.
How many words did you get right? If you feel like it, let us know in the comments section.
Did you know that Santa's Reindeer names are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph? Here you have a song about the most famous one!
Lyrics
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen.
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen.
But do you recall
the most famous reindeer of all?
Today we are going to work on a Christmas song. Before listening, here you have an online activity to practise some of the words that appear in the lyrics. Ready?
Now it is time to listen to the song! As you know, songs help us improve both our listening and speaking skills.
In case you are following this class from home, in the following link you can download the worksheet to fill the gaps. Good luck!
Boxing Day is celebrated the day after Christmas, on December 26th. This day is a holiday in the United Kingdom and most other areas that were settled by the English except the United States. Other countries that celebrate the holiday include New Zealand, Australia, and Canada.
Boxing Day has become a large shopping day. Just like Black Friday after Thanksgiving, Boxing Day is a day of big markdowns on products that stores were not able to sell for Christmas.
No one is quite sure where Boxing Day got its start. Here are a few of the possible origins of the day:
One possible origin is from metal boxes that were placed outside of churches during the Middle Ages. These boxes were for offerings to give to the poor on the Feast of St. Stephen, which is also celebrated on the 26th.
Another possible origin is from when wealthy English Lords would give their servants the day after Christmas off as a holiday. They would also give them a box with leftover food or even a present on this day.
