Ideas for Christmas classes

Oleg Nesterenko has lots of ideas and materials you can use for pre-intermediate/intermediate students - (some more religious than others).

David Mainwood's excellent lesson plan Merry Christmas Mr Bean - also suitable for pre-intermediate/intermediate students 

In this blog post, Sharon Hartle suggests ideas and activities best on an advent calendar (you can also download one she¡'s already done). Good for young learners. 

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want is the title of his leasson plan based on the controversial John Lewis YouTube Christmas advert. Advanced students. Comes with teacher's notes and worksheet.

LearnEnglish Kids has lost of activities from making a snowman to online quizzes

Ideas for activities from TeachingEnglish for all ages and levels

Have fun!

Sources for class activities, lesson plans and teaching tips

I think ELT blogs are get better and better and for me are a great source for class materials and teaching tips. Here are some of my favourites:

• Kieran Donaghy's Film English - comprehensive lesson plans for different ages and levels based around short films
• David Mainwood's EFL Smart Blog - imaginative lesson plans and activities with good visual stimuli, searchable by level, skill, topic and grammar point
• Dale Coulter's Languge Moments  - practical ideas for classes using a dogme approach. Easily adaptable to different ages and levels. The blog also has some interesting reflections on DIY professional development
• Ian James' TEFL teacher - I highly recommend his Dear victim, dear burglar lesson plan (Advanced)
• David Petrie's TEFL Geek - his current Twelve days of Geekmas series have some really excellent teaching and learning tips
• Sandy Millin  - has some sound class activities particularly at FCE level
• The Consultants-E blog - some very good, practical ideas for using mobiles as an educational tool
• David Dodgson's Relflections of a teacher and a learner - as a very experienced teacher David offers some great insights into class dynamics and comes up with ideas for activities that can bring out the best from students
• Steve Muir's allatc - a new blog with ideas for advanced students that includes the excellent lesson plan My blackberry's not working
• Gary Jones' Listen now - good, quality podcasts with worksheets and teacher's notes

If you decide to take my advice and follow these blogs, you can make your life simpler by using Google Reader- that way you can see all your favourite blogs in one place and easily keep up to date with new posts.