This year, my co-teacher (Miss Lee) and I decided to put our guitar skills to some use and play a song with the students. We decided to play "The twelve days of Christmas" because of its simple melody and repetitive nature - making it easy for the students to follow.
We divided the class into two groups, whereby the first group would sing the odd numbered days (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11) and the other the even numbered days (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12) - this way all students would be involved and it added a touch of spice to the song.
Before playing the song with the students, we began our lesson with a speaking task. It was a spot the difference puzzle based on a Christmas theme. Students worked in pairs and had to communicate with each other in English to find the differences between their pictures. This worked well and students enjoyed the activity. We then summarized at the end, with the whole class working together, to point out the differences that they had found.
Finally, to end the lesson, we introduced our New Year's Resolutions to the class. We then asked the students to guess which resolutions belonged to which teacher. It was then the students turn to make up at least three resolutions of their own and to write them on some decorative shapes, which were then used to make a beautifully decorated Christmas display outside of our English classroom.
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