Merry christmas – happy new year reading 3 (jigsaw) (b1)

Tuning in

1. Listen to the song Jingle Bells (video 11 – 03.00 min.) to tune in before the class. Is the Christmas song popular in your country? If not, what other songs are popular?

2. Look at pictures A-C. What is happening in the pictures?

3. Listen to ‘The Tropical Christmas Song’ by Trevor Nerva (listening 1 – 02.40 min.) and complete the lyrics below. Working in pairs, compare the answers. If necessary, discuss the answers with the class. Watch video 12 – 02.40 min. to check the answers.

Tropical Christmas song

No snow it doesn’t 1_____________________ me

2__________________ Sit under the coconut tree

And 3_______________________________________

And my friends that 4_________________ our tropical Christmas

No holly it doesn’t 5 _____________________me

We’ll take a 6 ______________ to make our Christmas tree

And sing along to 7________________________________

Let’s get ready for our tropical Christmas.

No need to 8 _____________________________________

The sun will be shining all day

And you might see Santa 9 __________________________

As he waterskies right out in the day.

No mistletoe it doesn’t 10 __________________ me

I still 11 _________________________________________

As we give thanks for the love we 12 __________________

And celebrate our tropical Christmas

No 13 __________ it doesn’t 14 _____________ me

Mrs. Cardoza made us some mulligatawny^vi

And Nan’s in the kitchen cooking up a storm^vii to add to our

Tropical Christmas

The 15 __________ of curry devil^viii and some real good feng^ix

Are 16 ______________________________________________

A piece of sugee cake^x 17 _____________________________

Is all we need for a jolly good time

No snow it doesn’t bother me

We’ll still be 18 ____________________ at 19 ______________

Coz’ we love to be together at this time of the year

There’s 20 _____________ like our tropical Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas

Happy good cheer

A Happy New Year

4. What trend do pictures A, B, C and the music clip feature? What advantages does a tropical Christmas offer? What are its disadvantages, if any?

A B С

5. Work in groups. Discuss questions a-b with the class.

1. What is the traditional Christmas holiday like in your country?

2. Have there been any departures from traditional Christmas in the last decade?

Jigsaw

Divide in two groups: group A and group B.

TASKS FOR GROUP A

Task 1

Match a line in A with a line in B to define the words in italics.

A	B
Christmas is changing its venue celebrating the holidays in exotic locales with new rituals (go out) on the town discrepancy is on the rise package tour entrepreneur	a difference between things that should be the same a holiday arranged by a travel company for a fixed price that includes the cost of your hotel and transport, and sometimes meals and entertainment is increasing the place where something happens spending the evening enjoying yourself in bars, cafes, clubs a businessman a ceremony the place where an activity or an event happens

Task 2

Read the article from the ‘Times’ below attentively. If there are any unknown words, use a dictionary to look them up. Note down the most important points.