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Christmas Gap-fill Exercise

Here’s a fun ESL activity for Christmas – a gap-fill exercise based upon a song that your students are guaranteed to find funny: “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.”

This worked really well for me because I’d just been teaching my students about house vocabulary (lesson coming soon) and so they were tested on “stairs” and “bedroom.” I also prefaced this activity with a Christmas vocabulary PPT so they knew “santa” and so forth.

The worksheet is pretty self-explanatory. Just play the song (I like the Jackson 5 version because, in China, people are crazy about Michael Jackson) and get them to fill in the blanks.

 

David S Wills

I am a writer, editor, and educator. I have written various books on mid-20th century American writers and a few on grammar and IELTS preparation. I have been in the education field since 2008 and have worked in various countries. I started this website to share some ideas and resources to help my fellow teachers.

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