English lesson on the topic “New Year. Travel game for elementary school on the theme: New Year in English English for kids New Year

Cheer everyone up(to cheer) and bring in(bring in) a genuine(real) New Year spirit(spirit, spirit) to your party!

How?! As easy as pie(very simple) - by playing games!

Have you planned your New Year menu? Of course, you will spend lots of time carefully thinking over(think through) and cooking the tastiest(the most delicious) dishes for you family and guests(guests)! And how about entertainment(entertainment)?? Oh, just relax and think of the menu, as we have done everything for you!

Here is a short but very useful list of the most exciting(exciting) games to play with your relatives(relatives) and guests. Hope you will like them:

1. Guessing the resolutions (guess the author of New Year's resolutions):

   Make each of your guests(let every guest) write down 5 resolutions * , each on a slip of paper(piece of paper). Pull(pull out) one slip of paper out of a basket(from cart) and read it out loud(aloud). Everyone has to guess(guess) who made each resolution . At the end of the readings, the person who guessed the most correctly wins a prize(wins a prize). Read some wrong resolutions out loud for fun(for laughter)!

   * New Year resolutions- promises that a person makes to himself on New Year’s Eve (build a house, quit smoking, etc.).

2. New Year's Eve Scramble (New Year's "breaker"):

   Write a bunch of(set, also: bunch, bunch) different words on a piece of paper that have to do with(to relate to something) New Year's Eve, then cut and scramble(mix) the letters. The person who guesses(guess) the most words correctly wins a prize.

3. Celebrity hunt:

   Everyone writes the name of a famous person, character(character) or an animal on a piece of paper, which they stick to the forehead(paste on forehead) of the player on their left(left). Use tape(scotch tape) or office Post-It notes(sticky notes). Make sure(make sure) they don"t see the word. Now the game starts. Everyone else can see your forehead. The objective(goal) is to work out(find out, understand) who you are. Each payer takes a turn to ask questions(takes turns asking questions) about who they are - answers can be YES or NO only, like "Am I alive?" or "Am I a female?" etc. If you get a YES you may continue asking, if you get a NO play moves on to the left(the turn goes to the player on the left). Last person to guess(last player to guess) their name is the loser(loser). Simple, but very absorbing(fascinating, absorbing attention).

4. Winking Murder:

   All except(all except) the detective sit in a circle while the detective waits outside(outside, that is, leaving the room). One person from the circle is elected(choose) to be the murderer(murderer) * , and then the Detective comes back and stands in the circle. When he is ready, the Murderer winks at(wink at someone) people in the circle. Anyone who the murderer has winked at lets out a blood-curdling scream(makes a bloodcurdling scream) and dies. The Detective has three attempts(attempts) to guess the murderer.

   * One of the participants is appointed as a killer.

5. Guess the Word (guess the word):

   Write down 100 words on cards such as stare(goggle), grin(grin, grin), wink, giggle(giggle), laugh, plate, shoelace(lace), thread(thread) or any word you like.

   Stack(stack) the cards and put them in the center of the room. Divide(split) the players into 2 teams(team) and seat them opposite(opposite) each other. Set the timer(set a timer) or stopwatch(stopwatch) for one minute. Ask the first player from Team One draw a card(draw a card) from the pile(stack) and give clues(clue, hint) to the word to his / her teammates(players of their team) before the timer ends the play.

   So, if the word is "laugh", the team member might say, "What you do if someone tells you a joke?" Players from Team One try to guess the word; if they are successful(successful) before the time is up(time is over) * ,they get a point(earn a point). If the timer runs out(expire, about time) and the word is not guessed, the other team gets a point. Take turns(play in turns) until there are no cards left, and then add up(sum) points to see who wins.

   * If they manage to guess the word before the time runs out.

6. Fun photos (funny photos):

   Take the picture of(take pictures) each of your guests(guests) with the digital camera. Have them make a funny face(make a funny face) and be sure to tell them(be sure to say) there is a prize for the best face. After you have taken all the pictures, download(download) them to your computer or laptop and ask everyone to gather(gather) around the monitor. The winner will be judged(judge) on the greatest laughter ([ˈlɑːftə] laughter) * .

   * The one whose photo turns out to be the funniest wins.

7. New years win, lose or draw (draw or lose):

   This game is one of the active games played at the time of New Year. More than 6 players can play this game. Large drawing pads(notepad), pens and list(list) of important events are required(needed). Go through magazines(look through the magazines) and newspapers to pick out(choose) events(events) from past years. Use the headlines(article title) as " titles"* (title) to Win, Lose or Draw. For tons of fun** , let your guests team up in two"s(break into pairs) show them the title they need to draw. When the 2 players are drawing, others are trying to guess. If someone mentioned(mention) a word that was part of the answer, the players at the drawing pad can write it to simplify the task(make the task easier).

   * This is what the competition task is called according to the rules of this game.
   ** Tons of smth.– literally “tons of something”, colloquial. meaning a lot, e.g. tons of money- A lot of money, tons of time- a lot of time.

8. Cookie Decorating Competition (competition for the best New Year's cookies):

   If you are not good at guessing words or murdering with a wink:-) chase your losses(get even) by organizing a cookie decorating competition. Bake(bake) and decorate(decorate) New Year cookies to your taste(to your taste). Apply(apply) your imagination(fantasy) and be creative.

   You can get recipes ([ˈresɪpɪ] recipe) for icing and dough ([dəʊ] dough) from here, for example:



9. Sing in Chorus:
   To crown it all(to top it all off) suggest(suggest) that your guests learn and sing together with you one of the best-known and most cheerful(cheerful) winter songs in the world.

As you sing, take the pleasure(have fun) of watching the original Jingle Bells animation clip:

In the video below our teaching staff(teaching staff) is congratulating you on New Year 2013 and sining: “We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.” :-)

That’s a joke, of course, though be sure that at the moment we all are trying to sing along with(sing along with someone) the chorus ([ˈkɔːrəs] chorus). Don’t miss the chance to join us!(Join us!)

The test for the most persistent students!

Choose one correct answer in every sentence.

Young children love to play, but it is a mistake to think that they do not like to learn at all. They love it if you teach them not in boring ways, but with the help of fun games, pictures, cubes, and visual aids with illustrations. The tasks that you will see below were created specifically by American teachers. There is nothing special there, it’s just from these pictures and cubes that little Americans recognize the words symbolizing Christmas and New Year.

Learning any language for a child is, first of all, the alphabet. to some extent even easier than Russian, and many well-illustrated manuals will help you make learning it fun and memorable.

English for children in pictures on the topic of New Year and Christmas - this is an archive with different files, where there are both coloring pages and diagrams of New Year's cubes, which you can print and glue together with your child. Before the Christmas holidays last year, I published various tasks for children. and additional bonus tasks on the Merry Christmas theme for children can be viewed here. Some tasks require communication and contact with the child, such as coloring or connecting numbers will give you the opportunity to do your own thing while the child draws.

Almost all files are in pdf format, which is very convenient for printing and viewing. English cards for children, diagrams of cubes, a New Year's poster, lined New Year's sheets for writing New Year's words and other tasks - all in one archive.

The New Year is a great opportunity to add interesting materials, tasks and videos to your English lessons with children. You don’t have to try to fit everything interesting into a couple of lessons before the New Year; you can break everything up over several weeks, where you will gradually introduce new vocabulary and complete tasks that will ultimately introduce your child to the features of the holiday, songs, poems and various crafts. To begin with, I would like to talk about New Year lapbooks.

Idea No. 1. New Year lapbooks. New Year's lapbooks

What is a lapbook? This is a great way to collect some information and vocabulary on a certain topic. Here are some ideas of what it might look like.

You can make such a lapbook together with your students so that they fill it out together. You can give them tasks, for example, give homework, and the student’s task is to write there what he wants to receive for the New Year or his plans for the next year, etc. There are a lot of ideas for working with lapbooks and children will be very interested in participating in this.

Idea No. 2. New Year's videos in English for children

Here I have collected various New Year and winter songs.

1.New Year Song for Kids

2.Jingle Bells

3.I'm a Little Snowman

4.Little snowflake

Idea No. 3. New Year's crafts in English lessons for children

Crafts in English lessons can be a very useful activity, because you can accompany the process with vocabulary that is not so often found in textbooks. Words like fold - to bend, glue - glue, paste - to glue, etc.

1.Santa Claus

2. Santa Claus made of cotton wool

3. Christmas trees made of paper

4. Garland of felt Christmas trees

Idea No. 4. New Year tasks and worksheets

1.How many words can you make out of Happy New Year?

Catholic Christmas is very soon - on the eve of December 24-25. Almost all institutions where children learn English hold a holiday in honor of this event. An integral ritual of the holiday is the singing of Christmas songs in English. I present to you the top most popular Christmas carols, which you have probably heard, and some you definitely know by heart.

1. Jingle Bells

is the most popular song about Christmas. It is impossible to imagine traditional chants without it. The lyrics are not the easiest to remember, but almost everyone knows the first verse and chorus:

Dashing through the snow
On a one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go,
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tail ring,
making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh.

2. We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Another popular song that everyone knows. The text is:

We wish you a Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year.

Good tidings we bring
To you and your kin
Good tidings for Christmas
And a happy new year.

Repeats several times.

3. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

For the holiday, you just need to learn the beginning of the song:

You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not put out
I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town

He's making a list,
Checking it twice;
Gonna find out who's naughty or nice.
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town.

4. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

For those who don't know, Rudolph is the most famous reindeer from Santa Claus's team, usually depicted with a red nose. This is exactly what the song is dedicated to:

Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw him,
you would even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?”

Then all the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,
you'll go down in history!

5. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth

This comic song has become a real Christmas hit of all time. The song was written by a simple school teacher who noticed that the thing his 7-10 year old students were most missing were their front teeth. The lyrics are:

All I want for Christmas
Is my two front teeth
My two front teeth
Just my two front teeth
Gee, if I could only have
My two front teeth
Then I could wish you Merry Christmas

It seems so long since I could say,
"Sister Suzy sitting on a thistle"
Gosh, oh gee
How happy I'd be
If I could only "whithle"
All I want for Christmas
Is my two front teeth
My two front teeth
Just my two front teeth
Gee, if I could only have my two front teeth
Then I could wish you Merry Christmas.

6. Twelve Days of Christmas

The song has a chain structure: each verse repeats the set of gifts described in the previous one, with the addition of a new element. Among the gifts: partridges, doves, chickens, blackbirds, rings, geese, swans, etc. The text is as follows:

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
A partridge in a pear tree

On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Two turtles doves, and a partridge in a pear tree

On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree

On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Five golden rings! Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Six geese a-laying, five golden rings!
Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.

7. Let it snow

At the end, Frank Sinatra’s song “Let It Snow” is not quite for children, but no less beloved by children.

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go

It doesn't show signs of stopping
And I’ve bought some corn for popping
The lights are turned way down low
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

When we finally kiss good night
How I’ll hate going out in the storm!
But if you'll really hold me tight
All the way home I'll be warm

The fire is slowly dying
And, my dear, we’re still goodbying
But as long as you love me so
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Happy singing to you this old and new year!

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Prepared for us Olga, author of a thematic website for children and adults English Language Club and blog Little nothings of life. Olga shared a great find, and since it’s December, it’s especially important that it’s New Year’s Eve.

There is a widespread belief among parents that the days immediately before and after the holidays are not the best time to study a foreign language. These days, many are freeing their children from any exposure to English in order to immerse themselves in the holiday bustle.

Meanwhile, practice shows that this opinion is wrong. And today I will try to convince you that it can just become that “magic kick-off” that can awaken your child’s dormant motivation to learn English.

Let's put aside all the textbooks, audio and video recordings and workbooks - and take a look around. Which of the real, not book, characters speak English? Of course, Santa! And if your child knows not one, but two whole languages ​​(even if he knows only a few words from the second), he has every right to receive two gifts in the New Year: from and. You agree with me?

True, in the case of Santa Claus there is one tiny “but”: he does not understand a word of Russian. So if your child wants to write him a letter, he will have to do it in English - but you will help him, right? Here you have both spelling practice and eyes burning with impatience - two, as it seemed before, absolutely incompatible things.

By the way, if you don’t know where Santa lives, I’ll secretly share the address with you - after all, that’s what you’ll have to indicate on the envelope:

Santa Claus
1 Reindeer Lane
North Pole

It was from this address that my daughter received a letter last year:

Do you know what Santa wrote to her? He suggested to Dasha that he create one with his own hands, to which the elves could bring tasks every day. We settled on a version made from cardboard cubes, which my daughter signed herself, at the same time understanding the differences between even and odd numbers, and also making significant progress in counting:

Santa kept his word: the tasks actually arrived every day throughout December. And all of them, naturally, were in English. And now, a year later, I can say with confidence: believe me, if Santa asks your child to learn, dance to or draw a picture using the colors named in the letter (blue, red, yellow, brown, green, purple etc.), your child you won't have to ask twice.

Here is our list of tasks from Santa last year - I will be glad if it is useful to you:

Advent Calendar Activities

• It is very cold outside. You are lucky to have a home and some food to eat. Go out and share some bread with birds.
• Why not make paper snowflakes and decorate the windows today? Your home wants to look beautiful!
• Your home looks beautiful and festive. It’s time to think about trees growing outside. Pour some colored water and put some pieces of thread into an ice cube tray and put it into the freezer. When the water freezes, go out and decorate a tree with your ice toys.
• Make a paper chain for the tree.
• Decorate every door in your house.
• Make a birdhouse and feed birds.
• What do snowmen eat for breakfast? (Answer: Snowflakes) Do you know any other riddles?
• Write your letter to me. Yours sincerely, Santa.
• Learn a New Year poem by heart.
• Go out in the dark tonight. Look at lights and take some pictures.
• Make a gift for your friend.
• Write a New Year story together - have each person add a line.
• Describe what you love best about each family member.
• Bring home some snow and stand in it barefoot.
• Take out some colored water in a bottle and paint a picture in the snow with its help.
• Make a New Year drawing — use glitter to make the snow glitter and the stars twinkle.
• Put on a play. Act out your favorite New Year story.
• Draw a house on the kitchen window with toothpaste.
• Make a paper tree to decorate the refrigerator.
• Color the page I've sent you. You'll find it according to the plan I attach.
• Create homemade cards to give to friends and family.
• Go out with your camera and take some pictures of snow, trees and the sky.
• Read a story about New Year.
• Watch a New Year cartoon.
• Make some paper crackers.
• Draw or print a picture. Ask your mother to make some holes all along its outline. Switch off the light and shine a torch from behind your picture. What can you see?
• It's time to be generous. Make an ornament — then give it away as a present.
• It is a family game night.
• Let's have some fun today! Why not dance and sing to Christmas music?
• Bake New Year cookies.
• Well done, my dear friend! You’ve coped with all my tasks. Now it's time to celebrate. After midnight look for the present I’m going to send you in your Christmas stocking. Happy New Year!

This year, my daughter herself sat down to write letters to both Father Frost and Santa. And she no longer needs tasks - she herself knows what she can do in preparation for the New Year. But she is really looking forward to answers from both and, of course, the ordered gifts.

By the way, gifts from them also come in different ways: Santa Claus usually puts his surprise under the Christmas tree, and Santa - this funny and wonderful grandfather - out of habit puts his surprise in a sock hanging on the wall or a boot sewn specially for this purpose:

I wonder if you are one of those mothers who uses preparations for the New Year and other holidays to stimulate your child’s interest in learning the English language and the culture of English-speaking countries?