ESL Lesson Plan: Celebrating Christmas in Canada

Student: 14 adult ESL students with a high standard of English ability. They all have high level literacy skills at L1, and they are learning English for academic purposes. Students seem to be very interested in Canadian culture and have been asking a lot of questions about the future holidays, Christmas. Many students have lived in Canada for almost a year and have never experienced 'Christmas in Canada'. Background: This is early December, students read, write and listen to Christmas in Canada.

Christmas is celebrated on December 25th and is one of the most popular festivals in Canada. Christmas carols, decorations, gifts, etc. There are several traditions at this time. Indeed, some children are taught that Santa Claus lives in Canada, and the post office assigns even the address and postal code where the children can send letters.

The influence that North America has on Christmas is clear from the stocking hanging on Christmas Eve full of Santa Claus. However, Canadian children believe that Santa's house is in the Canadian Arctic Circle, thousands of letters are sent to Santa Claus each year via the postal code H 0 H 0 H 0 through the Canadian mail. It is a German soldier who was originally stationed in Quebec during the American Revolutionary War, and now the private residential and commercial space is common in most parts of Canada.

You may know that Christmas was celebrated on December 25th. In the USA, family distributes gifts Santa Claus left under the Christmas tree on Christmas morning. Many people attend church worship on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning and join the big family for Christmas dinner. The Early Church thought that the events of Jesus' life should be the focus. More importantly, when the leaders of the church first talked about Jesus' birthday, as opposed to celebrating it as you become another great person in history There were also others. Nevertheless, the church has adequate adherence to support the memorial calendar.