Wednesday's Assignment
So, besides Christmas, which we've looked at over the last couple of days, what else do Canadians celebrate? Imagine being Santa Claus and arriving in a home that doesn't celebrate Christmas:
- Role play: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa
- Learn the vocabulary, using a good online text-to-speech resource. Can you recommend one? How about any of the following?
- Then do the usual, practising speaking aloud and getting a partner to practise with.
- Do you think it's ok to mix up various traditions? With your partner, write a 10-line dialogue using the vocabulary you have learnt. Feel free to include a chirbit.
- Listen and take notes: Hanukkah for Kids.
- Discuss in groups of 4 or more how historical Hanukkah is.
- Publish your findings.
Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa
diverse/ custom/ religious observance/ Advent wreathes/ Midnight Mass/ in-laws/ purely/ secular/
exchanging gifts, stockings, a Christmas tree/ carols/ Nat King Cole/ eggnog/ under the tree/ Santa Claus
Hanukkah/ festival of lights/ spins the dreidel/ Chrismukkah/ Kwanzaa/ African- American/ heritage
1-Hi, Ann. Long time no see. Is everything Okay?
--Hi, Yucho. I'm so glad you get here in one piece. Would you like to go shopping with me?
2-Of cause, Ann. What would you like to buy?
--You know it's December. I should prepare gifts for my families and my friends. By the way, I'd like to invite
you to my home to celebrate Christmas.
you to my home to celebrate Christmas.
3-Great! It's my honor. Do you invite some other guys? I do like Christmas carols and the eggnog.
--Yes. Liza, she is Jewish. Stephanie, she is African-American.
4-So we will have a Chrismukkah instead of a religious observance.
-- I decorate my home with a Christmas tree, poinsettia, mistletoe, holly and stockings. I already prepare a big
Midnight Mass.
5-Sounds good. Diverse customs get together, let's do it. We can exchange our gifts under the Christmas tree.
--I hope all of you guys like that.
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