Christmas Advent Calendar

This festive listening lesson is designed to inspire your students during the holiday gift-giving season. Using a magical TikTok clip about a Christmas advent calendar, learners explore emotional reactions, discover new vocabulary, and practise expressing opinions in a fun, girly-themed context.

How to Use

1. Start with a warm-up: “Choose your perfect Christmas gift.”
2. Review beauty-related vocabulary using the beauty products quiz.
3. Watch the TikTok clip and ask students to predict what happens.
4. Improve and test listening skills with a variety of targeted exercises.
5. Read the TikTok comments together and learn new vocabulary from context.
6. Practise using the new vocabulary in speaking tasks and short discussions.
7. Extra challenge: present Unpopular Opinions about gifts and advent calendars.
   Ask students to defend statements they originally disagreed with to build fluency and flexibility in speaking.