A Simple Christmas Group Game

Let's call it 'Round the X-mas Tree (well, the main picture of the blog entry may not suggest it - but I trust your imagination).

How to play the game? It's very easy. 

You need to sit in a circle. Each participant chooses a number (you can write numbers on pieces of paper and draw them from a X-mas hat). Then you read the question with that number from the list below and answer it.

You can also choose the number straight from the list if you don't have time to make the numbers to draw.

Here's the list of questions:

1. What's your favourite Christmas dish? 

2. How many words meaning Christmas (or concerning Christmas) do you know in other languages?

3. What's your favourite X-mas song? Can you sing it now?

4. How does Santa Claus look like?

5. Describe one Polish Christmas tradition.

6. What's the perfect Christmas weather?

7. What's the best X-mas gift you've ever got?

8. What's the worst X-mas gift you've ever got?

9. Tell a Christmas story (you can make it up).

10. Is Christmas important nowadays? Why?

11. Would you rather be a reindeer or an elf? Why?

12. What would animals say on Christmas Eve at midnight? Consider any and every animal - it can be geese flying south or your pet.

Enjoy playing the game, being together and speaking English.

I wish you all a beautiful Christmas time 😍🤩🌲🤍.

Yours, Ms K.

A Letter to Santa

As a child, did you ever write a letter to Santa Claus (a bow to these of you who complain about "too much of Brit. Eng. in the classroom")? Whatever your answer is, write one now.

In your letter to Santa:

- explain why you are writing

- tell him about your family's preparations to Christmas and how you are participating 

- describe a gift you'd like to get and give the reason(s) why you need it so much

- give some examples how you're going to make the world a better place this coming year.

Ho ho ho, I hope you'll get involved and have fun :).

A visit to a museum

Write a blog entry about the time when you visited a museum. In your piece include the folowing information:

What museum was it?

Describe one particular item or an exhibition.

Write about something unusual that happened while you were there.

Ask the readers of your blog about the museums they've visited that they could recommend. Let them give you the reasons of their choices.

Enjoy! :)

Churchill, Hudson Bay

Read the text "Polar Bear Town" (Matura ext., May 2024, task 5) and answer nswer the following questions:

1. If you were to go there, how would you spend your time?

2. How is it possible that a person with a terrible fear of something ends up getting involved in the very thing (the way the guide did)?

3. What is needed to start something meaningful?

Matters that Matter

Choose a topic that's important for you. Then write a letter to someone who could help you share your ideas, create something meaningful (an event, a product, etc.). Or, write to someone that blocks or restricts you in some way, letting them know about what you care about, and what request(s) you have as a result.

Przykładowe zadanie

Napisz list do nauczyciela j. angielskiego, w ktorym:

• wyrazisz swoją opinię na temat zajęć

• zasugerujesz zmiany

• odniesiesz się do swojego pozaszkolnego kontaktu z j. angielskim

• wypowiesz się na temat tego, co jest dla Ciebie ważne w nauce języka i w jakim celu się go uczysz (np. wykorzystanie języka w praktyce, przygotowanie do matury, itp.)

Tłumaczenie z polskiego na... polski

Przeczytaj jedną z fraszek Jana Kochanowskiego. Następnie przetłumacz tekst na współczesną polszczyznę.

Recycling

What do you recycle?

Today's task is suspiciously simple if not utterly boring and unworthy of your precious time and attention.  

But give it a go, anyway. What do you recycle? Start with the obvious, then reach for the less obvious. 

What is recycling? 

Put it into a simple definition. Or use a metaphor if you feel like it.

What do you find in the word linguistically?

What word family does it belong in? What are its kins, the nearest and dearest as well as the distant ones? 

What if all that you've read sounds like trash?

Go for the gold in it or replace the text with something more worthwile.