Bring the festive season to your languages classroom with these Christmas resources from around the world.
Watch our videos and learn British Sign Language (BSL) signs for Christmas for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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Add some sign language learning to your lessons this holiday season with BSL Christmas games, activities, songs and more.
Find some festive phrases with this Christmas BSL word search.
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Downloadable Christmas display banner in Urdu.
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Must-know Christmas Day vocabulary in Urdu
How to Say ‘Merry Christmas’ and other phrases in Urdu
Activities and ideas to learn Chinese around the theme of Christmas.
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Christmas has been steadily gaining popularity in mainland China in the last two decades. Find out some of the ways it is celebrated in China today.
How is Christmas celebrated in China?
Video teaching the Christmas song 'Jingle Bells' in Chinese
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With all the merriment that’s going on around you, it’s the perfect opportunity to learn new Christmas songs—in Mandarin.
A quick study guide on Christmas vocabulary words in Chinese.
Videos, songs and activities for celebrating Christmas in Chinese.
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As you tie up your mistletoe, decorate your Christmas tree and feast on gingerbread cookies by the fireplace, here are the top 8 Chinese Christmas words you need to know for this holiday.
Lots of activity ideas including colouring, stories, crafts and activities.
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From seafood banquets to traditional desserts, via the best things to drink and snack on, here's how to create a traditional French Christmas dinner.
Activities and lessons plans for covering Christmas in the French classroom.
Learn some facts about Christmas in France, accompanied by relevant vocabulary.
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An advent calendar with ideas to try with your class every day. Examples are in French and Gaelic but activities can be adapted to other languages.
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Three-minute Xmas activities you can do everyday with your classes.
Interactive French advent calendar
Find out about advent, Christmas dinner and other festive traditions in France.
An interactive site from the French post office with a range of activities, including writing to Père Noël.
Ten traditions that mark "Christmas à la française"
What's Christmas like in some Francophone countries? Find out in this free resource from Mary Glasgow.
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Did you know that in France the main Christmas meal, called Réveillon, is eaten on Christmas Eve/early Christmas morning? Find out more about Christmas in France.
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French Christmas traditions: Advent.
Start preparing for Christmas with the 12 days of Christmas in French, clearly read and accompanied by a Powerpoint presentation. Please note, a TES userid and password is required to access this resource.
French Christmas carols
A collection of French, German and Spanish Christmas resources
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French karaoke carols advent calendar.
BBC Languages website about Christmas in France
Christmas traditions and activities
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Musical French Christmas resource.
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Facts, crafts and activities for bringing Christmas to your German classroom.
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Seven teaching activities for a German Christmas lesson.
This pack contains a variety of worksheets perfect for German learners.
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Watch two German teens sorting their Christmas shopping.
Here are ten German Christmas traditions, with some historical background, anecdotes and even delicious recipe suggestions.
Christmas in Germany is celebrated with many traditions that are unique to Germany. Find out about them on this kids travel website.
Did you know that in Germany 'der Weihnachtsmann' brings the main Christmas presents on December 24th? Find out more about Christmas in Germany.
Christmas in Germany - a virtual walk through Germany during Christmas.
Christmas traditions in the German speaking world.
Information on how Christmas is celebrated in Germany.
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Find out about festive traditions in Germany
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BBC Languages website about Christmas in France, Spain, Germany and Italy
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These Spanish Christmas stories are a great tool for improving your language skills while getting in the festive spirit and learning about holiday traditions in the Spanish-speaking world.
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PDF and presentation about La Navidad en España.
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This resource will help your pupils to research the main dates, traditions and vocabulary about Christmas in Spain.
This powerpoint about Christmas vocabulary in Spanish is a great resource to use with your pupils.
A calendar of Christmas events in Spain from 8 December to 6 January.
Find out about Christmas and New Year is celebrated in Spain.
The PDF provides a tour of Latin America at Christmas
Did you know that in Spain most families eat their main Christmas meal on Christmas Eve? Find out more about Christmas in Spain.
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Spanish Christmas resources
Find out about festive traditions across Europe.
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Learn a festive greeting each day of December. Each lesson includes a video episode, a list of the words and phrases used and background information about the language, where it's spoken, the number of speakers and more. This course is available to all schools for free.
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From 2020, this multilingual video advent calendar provides a new festive phrase each day.
Christmas traditions around the world including China, Ethiopia, Italy and Mexico.
Learn about some of the weird and wonderful traditions for the festive season in different countries.
In the UK, many of us enjoy turkey, mince pies and presents on 25 December, but Christmas can be celebrated in different ways in other countries.
Read some fun facts about Christmas around the world and get some interesting insights about Christmas traditions and celebrations.
Interactive advent calendar where you can learn about Christmas around the world.
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Find out how Christmas Traditions and how Christmas is celebrated in lots of different countries and cultures around the world!
Last week before Christmas simple language learning activities.
Map showing how to say (or rather write) the equivalent of “Merry Christmas” in (official) European languages
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A lesson plan for Christmas that can be adapted for any language
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How Christmas is celebrated in Austria, Finland, Iceland and Italy. A Comenius Project.
Christmas traditions around the world.
Find out about how Christmas is celebrated in different countries around the world.
Christmas traditions in Italy.
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Facts About Christmas in Italy
Italian Christmas resources
A selection of Christmas songs in Italian.
Great for consolidating spelling, you can use this resource as an opening to other independent writing activities, or just for fun!
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Learn a phrase a day with this Youtube advent calendar from Learn Gaelic.
On this page you will find downloadable files for ‘Christmas’ along with the video, Powerpoint and audio files.
How prepared are you for this Polish holiday season? Time to put your festive Polish knowledge to the test!
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Find out about Christmas traditions, food, carols and more.
Take a tour of Christmas in Krakow and learn about the market, traditional food and more.
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Polish traditions and celebrations, with associated vocabulary.
Christmas traditions in Poland.
When you spend Christmas in Poland, traditions play an important part, so let’s explore some of them!
Make the holiday season more festive for your First and Second Level learners with this fabulous resource pack featuring Scottish Christmas poems. There are four poems featured in this lovely selection; "Santa's Christmas Wish", "Three Wee Kings", "The Joys O' Christmas", and "Christmas Memories O' The Past"!
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Christmas songs, poems and activities to use Scots with your learners.
Scots lyrics and recording of the song, the Twelve Days of Christmas