Christmas
How Christmas
works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/christmas.htm
Christmas
around the
world
History
The history of Christmas, since antiquity
http://www.holidays.net/christmas/story.htm
Christmas around the world (in 12 countries)
http://www.soon.org.uk/country/christmas.htm
http://www.robinsnest.com/articles/xmasothercountries98.html
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/
Video : the History of Christmas on History Channel
http://www.history.com/media.do?id=history_of_christmas&action=clip
Urban legends about Christmas (including the fact that the present
image of Santa was created by Coca Cola)
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/christmas.asp#immac
Carols and music
Christmas musics and lyrics (midi sound)
http://www.santaland.com/songs.html
http://www.merry-christmas.com/music/index.htm
http://www.merry-christmas.com/xmas-music2.htm
Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer
Listen to the song (and download it
in MP3)
http://language.chinadaily.com.cn/focus/2003/rudolph.mp3
The lyrics and a nice jazzy music
(but only the music)
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/midi/rudolf_the_red_nose_reindeer.htm
http://www.the-north-pole.com/carols/rudolph.html
http://www.prose-n-poetry.com/christmas_song/133
how Rudolf was created
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/rudolph.asp
http://www.christmaswithlove.com/rudolf.html
info from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer
Christmas
Stories
By Charles Dickens
Dickens wrote several Christmas stories. The most famous is "A
Christmas Carol", but you can also read these other Christmas stories:
A Christmas Tree
What Christmas is as we Grow
Older
The Poor Relation's Story
The Child's Story
The Schoolboy's Story
Nobody's Story
http://www.authorsdirectory.com/b/cdscs10.htm
"A Christmas Carol" is an interesting way to introduce students
to the Victorian way of life. You can download the full text at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/46
then here is an excellent page of resources, including several sites of
reading notes, learning guides and projects:
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/dickens.html#chrcar
and two webquests :
A well organised webquest, with students working in teams to perform
different roles and study different aspects of the problem: Scrooge is
running for Mayor and want to convey what he has learnt to the citizens
and help them change things for the better. This webquest includes
information from the novel, but also from several online sources of
information about life in the Victorian period.
http://www.coollessons.org/Dickens.htm
Another webquest, only based on the novel/play. The content and the
process are easier and interesting, but I think it needs to be adapted
and can't be used as is. The students take the roles of the three
ghosts, but the first task each time requires the students to draw a
picture of themselves as the ghost, and this is neither useful nor
interesting for our ESL students.
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/crc/webquest/Christmas%20Carol/
other Christmas stories
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/stories.html
The
Gift of the Magi Online
version of O. Henry's classic story,
courtesy of the Gutenberg Project. An excellent feature is the linked
net
dictionary to define difficult words. Gr 3-6
http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html
Yes, Virginia. There is a Santa
Claus The famous 1897 New York Sun
editorial answering Virginia's letter. Still touching after all these
years. Gr 2-8
http://www.educa.rcanaria.es/usr/zonzamas/virginia.htm
Read and hear traditional Christmas
stories
http://www.northpole.com/Overview/StoryList.html
Christmas stories
from the White House (à écouter, sans texte)
Listen to bedtime stories read from people from the White House!
(barbara and Laura Bush, etc)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/2003/index.html
Gifts and shopping in New York
Christmas in New York
http://www.nyctourist.com/xmas_in_nyc.htm
[ pour voir les vitrines de Noël et les décorations
à N.Y. ]
Voici la vitrine en ligne du
catalogue de Neiman Marcus.
Vous pourrez acheter en ligne une Mercédès rose pour
votre enfant de 3 ans. A seulement
$410, soldé $172 !
http://www.neimanmarcus.com
(gift and
collectibles)
http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod5690037&parentId=cat2570789
Online Shopping and Charities
This holiday season, if you're planning to shop for gifts online,
make a difference with your wallet by using
this site as
your shopping
directory. When you use one of these sites to access an online store,
a percentage of the money you spend will be donated to the charity of
your choice.
My Cause
http://www.mycause.com
[ intéressant pour sa vaste liste interactive de 'Charities' ]
Cooking
Christmas cards
BlackDog’s Christmas Cards
http://blackdog.net/postcards/holiday/xmas/index.html
Links