Shared Sharing Practice

Christmas ideas

Photo of Christmas cards and stationery

Italian Christmas ideas


Philagora

Website containing animated nursery rhymes (with sounds) in French, English and Italian, poems, activities as well as recipes. All are categorised in themes (including Halloween, Easter and Christmas). Ideal for younger children but may be enjoyed by older ones too.


BBC Languages - information on a Italian Christmas

This part of the BBC Languages website gives information on what it's like to celebrate Christmas in Italy. It includes audio pronunciation of 'Buon Natale' and 'Felice Anno Nuovo'.


Christmas.it

Italian Christmas site which explains where traditions such as candy canes and Christmas bells originate, gives instructions on how to make decorations, and lets you send e-cards.


Fact Monster

Multilingual greetings for Christmas and New Year, and many more occasions.


Peter Jones' Christmas website

Christmas website from Pete Jones, a Head of Modern Languages in Ontario, Canada. Includes games, quizzes, poems and links to hundreds of Christmas websites. (Warning - music will play when you open this website.)


Feliz año nuevo (Spanish)

Do you have Christmas resources to share?

If you have resources to share with other modern languages teachers, why not upload them to the MFLE? Anything from a website link to an activity or photo could help someone else make an interesting lesson.

Christmas plays for modern languages

You can also find Christmas plays to perform with your languages class in the MFLE Drama section.