I know it’s really (too?) early but as soon as people start using the search box at the top of the page to look for “Christmas” it’s time to write a blog post about it!

Regular viewers will know the two most popular Genki English themes are the Genki Christmas Song for teaching things like Santa, Christmas, Snowman, Reindeer, Present, Stocking etc. i.e. some really, really easy Christmas vocab. Plus there are the funky, cuddly new A4 picture cards and minicards we did last year.

Then for the second lesson there is the “What would you like for Christmas?” song, which has a very nice drawing activity which a lot of teachers love for calming the kids down.

There are also lots of Christmas themed classroom games on the site, most of which are linked up from the main Christmas page including Christmas Ho Ho Ho: , Christmas Snowballs. , Christmas Clothes Race, Poisoned Presents, Christmas Delivery Game, Naughty or Nice game, What colour is Christmas? Worksheets etc.

Plus what would Christmas be without a few picture books? I’m working on a couple of new ones, but for now we have “Where are the Christmas presents?” which nicely ties in with the prepositions lessons (and contains the famous “toilet” page!). Plus the Baby Monkey’s Clothes book also has a nice winter vibe about it.

Finally if you fancy splashing out on the Kids English DVD set there’s a very nice Christmas Eve song and video for teaching family members and the present tense. This one is a lot slower and it made all the parents cry when we filmed the video!

Anyway, enjoy your Christmas preparations.