1. A Night Of Christmas Carols Hosted by Miss Cinthia Salgado Subject: Recursos didacticos Professor: Mª Edith Larenas

2. Today’s objectives In this presentation we are going to learn about the order of adjectives and nouns through the singing of a Christmas Carol and also some new vocabulary related to the twelve days of Christmas’ Carol Lesson duration: 90 minutes aprox

3. Warming up Activity: Class discussion Level: Elementary school/ beginners Objective: let the students know the theme of the class and give them the opportunity to speak freely answering simple questions about Christmas Carols Time: 5 minutes

4. Warming up Class discussion What is a Christmas Carol? What famous Christmas’ Carol do you know?

5. Pre activity Nº 2 Activity: Vocabulary photographs Level: Elementary school/beginners Objective: learn new vocabulary related to the song Aids: Vocabulary pictures Time: 15 minutes

6. Pre - Activity Nº 2 Vocabulary photographs DrummerDove

7. Hen geese Partridge

8. While Activity Nº 1 Activity: Listen and complete Level: Elementary Objective: Let the student identify the new words used in the previous exercised that appear in the song Aids: recording of “The twelve days of Christmas song” Time: 20 minutes

9. Listen to the song and complete the missing words The Twelve days of Christmas

10. On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: A ________in a Pear Tree On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Two Turtle_______ and a Partridge in a Pear Tree On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Three ______Hens Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Partridge Doves French

11. Four _______Birds* Three French Hens Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Five _______Rings Four Calling Birds Three French______ Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree...Six _____a-laying......Seven swans a-swimming......Eight maids a-milking......Nine ladies dancing......Ten lords a-leaping......Eleven pipers piping......Twelve drummers drumming Golden Calling Hens geese

12. What kind of words were missing? - Words that represent objects: Words that represent objects are also know as Nouns - Words that represent qualities or characteristic of the object: the words that represent characteristics of objects like color, size, etc… are call Adjectives and goes before the noun

13. Example Rudolf’s red nose Here red is a characteristic of the nose so is an adjective and goes before the noun Nose is a noun because a nose is an object

14. While activity Nº 2 Activity: Worksheet adjective placement Level: Elementary school/ beginners Objective: Practice the correct order of adjective-noun sentences Aids: Worksheet adjective placement Time 15 minutes

16. Post Activity Nº1 Activity: Retune the song Level: Elementary/beginners Objective: write a new version of the song using a combination of adjective + noun Time: 20 minutes

17. Re tune the song Rewrite this Christmas Carol using the main phrase “my teacher sent to me” Example: “On the first day of Christmas my teacher sent to me…. One good mark”

18. Post Activity Activity: share and sing Level: Elementary /beginners Objective: practice pronunciation and receive feedback from the teacher Aids: The twelve days of Christmas recording Time: 10 minutes

19. Post Activity Show your new version of the song to the class and let every group sing a part of their, creating a new group song.

20. Bibliography (all the activities have been modified from the original ones) –http://www.12days.com/library/carols/12daysofxmas.htmhttp://www.12days.com/library/carols/12daysofxmas.htm –http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp290-07.shtmlhttp://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp290-07.shtml –http://world-english.org/adjectiveplacement.htmhttp://world-english.org/adjectiveplacement.htm –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cSZD1GPuUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cSZD1GPuU –http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/a/adjective_order_2.htmhttp://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/a/adjective_order_2.htm –http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/december_tree.dochttp://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/december_tree.doc

21. Merry Christmas to all of you!! Jojojo