Christmas in English

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• MBO
• vmbo b, k
• Leerjaar 2

How will you be spending the holidays?

Stockings

Christmas elves

Reindeer

Christmas tree

candy cane

Christmas pudding

Mistletoe

Christmas cracker

Wreath

00:39

Why didn't Christians celebrate Christmas?

1. Because there was no mas.
2. Because they didn't know which date jesus died.
3. Because they didn't know which date Jesus was born
4. Because Christmas was not a thing back then.

01:44

How did decorating a Christmas tree end up in America

1. Because someone started it in America
2. Because of the picture of the German king.
3. Because the English gave it to America
4. Because some Americans started it

02:36

Where does Santa Claus we know now originally come from?

1. From the Coca Cola branding.
2. From a German fairytale.
3. A mix of different coloured Santa Clauses
4. From the Dutch Sinterklaas.

eCHRISTMAS (SONGS) QUIZ

1. Choose the right word.

Oh my love we've had our chair / share of tears.

Oh my friend we've had our hopes / opens and fears / tears.

Oh my friend it's been a long hand / hard year.

But now it's Christmas.

Yes it's Christmas.

Thank God it's Christmas.

Oh my love we've had our _______ of tears.

Oh my friend we've had our _______ and _________.

Oh my friend it's been a long ________ year.

But now it's Christmas.

Yes it's Christmas.

Thank God it's Christmas.

Choose the right words

chair

share

hand

hopes

fears

opens

hard

tears

What did the man from Wham! give you?

1. a bouquet
2. Their love
3. an iPhone
4. Nothing

What is being sung? 

'Christmas was cold and grey

Another holiday alone to celebrate

But then, one day, everything changed

You're all I need'

What was Christmas first, before Kelly Clarkson met ‘you’?

1. Cheerful and lots of fun
2. Super boring
3. Super cozy
4. Cold and grey

Fill in the gaps with the missing word

'_______________, tell me if you're really __________________.

Don't make me fall in _________________ again if he won't be here

Next _______________.

______________________, tell me if he really _______________

'Cause I can't give it all _______________if he won't be here

Next _______________'

Fill in the gaps with the missing word

'Santa, tell me if you're really there

Don't make me fall in love again if he won't be here

Next year

Santa, tell me if he really cares

'Cause I can't give it all away if he won't be here

Next year'

What is being sung? 

'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Everywhere you go

There's a tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well

It's the sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow'

Where is the sturdy tree Michael Bublé sings about?

1. In Bruges
2. In the park
3. In the Grand Hotel
4. In Brussels