Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

- Hello, my dear friends! There are many holidays in our country and English-speaking countries. But the holidays we like most of all are New Year’s Day and Christmas Day. People prepare for these holidays in advance: they buy presents, make fancy dresses, send greeting cards and decorate their houses.

Our competition is devoted to these great holidays!

We have two teams today. They are going to show us, if they know everything connected with Christmas and New Year. I hope you are ready to start.

At first our teams will introduce themselves.

Tell us, what the name of your team is.

Конкурс 1.  The first task is a small quiz about Christmas and New Year.

1. What country is the tradition to decorate the Christmas tree from? (Germany)

2. What is Santa’s means of transport? (sledge, reindeer)

3. Where does Santa live? (In the North Pole)

4. How are Christmas songs called? (carols)

5. What was traditionally put into the Christmas pudding in the UK to bring good luck to the person that finds it (coin)

6. How does Santa get into the house?

8. How many reindeer are there in Santa’s sleigh?

9. Who are Santa’s helpers?

10. What should children leave for Santa to eat (milk and cookies)

11. What is the name of the reindeer with a red nose (Rudolph)

12. This symbol of Xmas has wings and often wears white (angel)

Конкурс 2.

Now we are going to check, if you know Christmas and New Year songs well. The next task is “Guess the song”. You’ll hear the music, without words, you need to sing or just say one-two lines from this song.

Конкурс 3. 

Next competition is about Christmas traditions. I’ll show you the thing and you need to tell about a tradition, connected with this thing. You have 1 minute to think. Make as many sentences, as possible.

1. Christmas tree

2. Stocking

3. Singing carols

4. Sending Christmas cards

5. Giving each other presents

Конкурс 4.  There is one interesting tradition. Do you know, what people usually write before New Year’s Eve? – New Year resolutions. What is it? Can you explain? Yes, promises… they promise something to their parents, to themselves…

And our next competition is to write as many resolutions, as you can, you have 3 minutes.

Конкурс 5. Write the end of the story

Both teams get the same beginning of the story. You need to continue it.

It was the 31st of December. The weather was fine.

Everybody was preparing for the New Year's Day...

Write, what the members of the family were doing, what happened …

Конкурс 6. “The best congratulation”. Imagine that you have to send a Christmas card to your friend. What would you wish him/her? Please, color your Christmas card and write your greetings.

Please congratulate your friends from another team and give them a card.

That'll do for today. You were very active. Well done! Now we shall decide who the winner of our competition is.