Christmas and Hanukkah
Christmas and Hanukkah
Learn the differences between Christmas and Hanukkah.
Speaking: Students...
... can ask and answer simple questions
... interact with other students in English
... can communicate and exchange infromation
Writing: Students...
... can put the infromation they collect into writing
... can write simple sentences
... can use suitable vocabulary
Teacher Instructions
Open a Google account for each student and explain what they have to do and how it works
Open a Zoom account for each student
Arrange pairs of 2 German and 2 Israeli students (one strong and one weak student of each country)
Hand out conversation starters and questions for the project
Talk with your students about the questions and remove ambiguites
Explain what they have to do and what the main goal of this meeting with the Israeli/German students is
During Zoom meeting: join every breakout room to help or just listen to what they talk about
Evaluation
Content of the wanted poster
The information on the poster
How did you get the information?
Students Instructions
Introduce yourselves in the Zoom meeting
Ask the questions you talked about with your teacher
Maybe ask more questions to get more information about the other students/school/country
After the Zoom meeting create a "Wanted" poster about Christmas (Israeli students) or Hanukkah (German students). Work together with your partner from your country.
Examples to write about in your "Wanted" poster: name, date(s), traditions, foods, songs, ...
Conversation Starters
Where do you live?
In what grade/class are you?
How old are you?
Do you have siblings?
Whats your favourite subject?
Questions about Christmas and Hanukkah
What does einter look like in Israel/Germany?
What do you like about winter?
Are you celebrating something?
What are you celebrating?
How are you celebrating?
Are there special traditions?
Do you have typical food for this season/holiday?
Are there any special songs you play at Christmas/Hanukkah?
