Merry Christmas, bloggers!

Christmas videos!

• New Year’s Resolutions for English Language Learners: https://youtu.be/XZUb69IocuA 
• Funny scene of Friends: https://youtu.be/UV7fZd7gjJ8 
• Phrases expressing resolutions: https://youtu.be/SVJRq2ezhFQ 

• Christmas Karaoke https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF22689E438E0C08A

• Crazy Christmas traditions around the world https://youtu.be/wFXkazFvFI8

• The Gingerbread Man story https://youtu.be/pckuS--UlV4

• A Christmas Carol - short version https://youtu.be/HqMfGq3okZY

• Mr Bean’s Christmas https://youtu.be/HKUY_gOxLas

• Nightmare Before Christmas- when Jack discovers Christmastown https://youtu.be/yXo-mqmiGew

Activities from Charles Dickens story ''A Christmas Carol''

Activities from Charles Dickens story; A Christmas Carol

 Exercise 1: Write the names of the characters.

1. He hates Christmas and he has lot of money.                     

2.He was horrible and nasty, until he died.                    

3.He's Scrooge's clerk, he's very poor and he has a large family.                

4.He's always in chains because he's damned for eternity.                   

Exercise 2: Circle the correct answer

1. Charles Dickens is a writer/director.

2. The first ghost took Scrooge to the past/future.

3.  The 2nd spirit is the ghost of Christmas present/Christmas past.

4. The 3rd spirit is kind and sweet/scary and he never talks.

Exercise 3: Write a description of the first ghost.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

                                GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE BOWELS RECIPE

            INGREDIENTS:

1. TEASPOONN VANNILA EXTRACT

2.3 CUPS ALL PURPOSE FLOUR 

3. 2/3 CUP FIRMLY  PACKED  BROWN SUGAR

4. 1/3 CUP GRANULATED SUGAR

5. 3/4 TEASPOON BAKING POWDER

6. 1/2 TEASPOON SALT

7.12 TABLESPOONS BUTTER

8.2 EGGS

9.2/3 MINIATURE SEMI- SWEET CHOCOLATE CHIPS

         INSTRUCTIONS

   STEP 1: Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray pan with vegetable pan spray

   STEP 2: In large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt; mix well. In small microwave-safe bowl, melt butter; cool slightly. Add eggs and vanilla to butter; whisk until smooth. Add butter mixture to dry ingredients; mix well to form stiff dough. Mix in chocolate morsels. Roll out dough on generously-floured surface to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut 5-inch round disks from dough. Drape one disk over each cup mold of pan, pressing to form smooth surface.

  STEP3: Bake 12-14 minutes or until cookie cups are firm and golden brown. Cool on pan on cooling rack 5 minutes. Loosen bottom edges of cookies from pan using small spatula. Carefully remove cups from pan and cool completely. Wash and dry pan; repeat with remaining dough

IT IS A VERY GOOD IDEA FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS SWEETS

Santa Claus is coming to town!

Lyrics video: https://youtu.be/HWv72L4wgCc

Mariah Carey version: https://youtu.be/XaVtSHrP888

Choose the game and the song you like

http://markaki-students.blogspot.gr/2013/12/christmas-activities-for-all-age-groups.html

The Journey

Now watch this video: https://youtu.be/0N8axp9nHNU

and answer the following questions.

(Ideas from http://film-english.com/)

Reading: Christmas customs in the UK

Christmas Carol: The film

https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=Rw09sDgcwUg

Activities on the "Christmas Carol"

 

 

 

 

Christmas in Greece

    Here in Greece people decorate coloured lights, boats and Christmas trees. We decorate boats because boats remind us of the summer, the coloured lights remind us of life.
    During of Christmas people in Greece eat and drink too much. For example we eat turkey stuffed with chestnuts, coconuts, minced meat, onions, peppers and parsley and usually drink red wine.
    On Christmas day families and friends give each other presents which they put in the stockings which are out of the door.
    On 1st January there is a big Festival whose name's new year's day. On 1st January in Greece we cut the new year's cake and we throw a pomegranate on the floor for good luck.

Christmas activities

http://markaki-students.blogspot.gr/2013/12/christmas-activities-for-all-age-groups.html

 

You'll love the game:

 

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/fun-games/run-santa-run

My opinion about a film

Last Wednesday I and my classmates saw an exciting film which was called "NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS".The film is very good,but the thing that impressed me is the way that the director made this film.This way called"STOP MOTION".First of all the director made muppets that a man moved .Then he took 12 photos in 1 minute and after that he joined the photos together. Many people worked for 3 years to make this film!!!

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THESE ARE PUPPETS???

MY FAVOURITE CELEBRATION!!!

My favourite celebration is Christmas because your parents give you presents and at Christmas all the people decorate their houses with a tree.The people go to the church and then they eat around a big table a big chicken with potatoes.When they eat all the dinner they tell jokes and they sing all the time.At 12:00 pm the children go to sleep and when they wake up they run under the tree to open their presents!!!

Christmas online activities!

Online Christmas Activities

See all our Christmas photos here. 

All our Christmas blog posts

WHY WE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS ???

Once upon a time I had a friend who was called  Kallia . Kallia didn't know why we celebrate Christmas.She asked her friends , her parents , her teacher,but she couldn't understand why we celebrate Christmas.Mary who was Kallia's best friend said that we celebrate Christmas ,because our parents give us presents.Οther people said that Christmas is their new tablet,a trip to America....
One day Kallia asked me.I opened a book and I started reading .Then I said : on 25th December Jesus Christ was born .So this the reason that we celebrate Christmas!!!!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
                                   LAST CHRISTMAS by Wham

                                          All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey

                    Happy Xmas by John Lennon 

My favourite celebration

My favourite celebration is Christmas.My family goes to the church and then we sit around a big table.My mum cooks a special dinner with all the christmas food.We eat chicken with potatoes and a carrot salad.Then my granny plays christmas songs on the piano.After that the children sit under the christmas tree and they open their presents.I love Christmas!!!

Charles Dickens

As we all know Charles Dickens was one of the world's best and most famous writers.His novels have ''travelled'' around the world.In this composition that I'm going to write I'll tell you about two famous characters from Dickens' books.
The first famous character is Ebenezer Scrooge.Scrooge is an unkind and mean man.He doesn't give a lot of money to poor people and he doesn't care about that his clerk's son who is really ill in order to give some more money to the poor family.But ... one night Jacob Marley's ghost visits him and tells him that 3 more ghosts will visit him tonight.
Another famous character is Abel Magwitch.He's a bad criminal that escapes from his prison and he's free again.He meets a boy and he tells him to find food and if the boy doesn't come back ,he will kill him.But the boy comes back and the criminal becomes a grateful man.
Dickens was a good writer, but he died on 9th June 1870.

"What will my friend and I do?" / First Conditional

   If it's sunny at the weekend , we'll play volleyball and basketball at LIDO SOCCER.If it's cloudy on Monday and Thursday, we'll study science and English.

     If it snows all week ,we'll play snow war and make lots of snow men with a big smile from buttons ,a carrot nose and a beautiful scarf!!!!!!!                               

The Selfish Giant

    Once upon a time, in a little village, there
was a giant's castle.Every day the children played
in the Giant's garden, but they didn't like Giant.
     One day the children heard:" Boom, Boom,
Boom!!!" They turned and saw a very big pair
of boots.They looked up and saw a big and angry
face.
    The Giant said: "It's all mine!!!.Keep off
my garden!".

The children were very sad when they walked out of the Giant's beautiful garden...