Christmas Songs

Last Christmas




I want a hippopotamus for Christmas



I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that's the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too

Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian

There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage

I'm dreaming of a White Christmas



I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten,
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!

Mary's Boy Child



The little Drummer Boy



Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum
A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum
Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum
To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

So to honor Him, pa rum pum pum pum,
When we come.

Little Baby, pa rum pum pum pum
I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum
I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum
That's fit to give the King, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum,
On my drum?

Mary nodded, pa rum pum pum pum
The ox and lamb kept time, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my drum for Him, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my best for Him, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

Then He smiled at me, pa rum pum pum pum
Me and my drum.


Winter Wonderland



Sleigh bells ring, are you listening,
In the lane, snow is glistening
A beautiful sight,
We're happy tonight.
Walking in a winter wonderland.

Gone away is the bluebird,
Here to stay is a new bird
He sings a love song,
As we go along,
Walking in a winter wonderland.

In the meadow we can build a snowman,
Then pretend that he is Parson Brown

He'll say: Are you married?
We'll say: No man,
But you can do the job
When you're in town.

Later on, we'll conspire,
As we dream by the fire
To face unafraid,
The plans that we've made,
Walking in a winter wonderland.

In the meadow we can build a snowman,
And pretend that he's a circus clown
We'll have lots of fun with mister snowman,
Until the other kids knock him down.

When it snows, ain't it thrilling,
Though your nose gets a chilling
We'll frolic and play, the Eskimo way,
Walking in a winter wonderland.


Mr Duncan's Christmas Message

Thinkquest - Native Americans of South Dakota

Photo by South Dakota Tourism


Click here and find out some interesting things about Native Americans.

library.thinkquest.com

The Indigeous People of North America

Photo: earthstarspiritualcenter.org


When European explorers arrived in America in 1492 they found around 2 million indigenous people living there.
The Europeans mistakenly called them Indians, thinking they had landed in the Indies in the Far East of Asia.
The explorer Christopher Columbus made this famous mistake.
The term “Indians” stuck with the people who lived there despite not even coming from India!!!.
How rude!!
These 'Indians' belonged to at least 300 different tribes and spoke over 2,000 different languages.
Famous examples of these indigenous tribes are

_ the Cheyenne

_ the Blackfoot

_ the Comanche

_ the Sioux


Each tribe spoke a separate language, and their houses, clothes and entertainment differed. However, they all followed a similar life based on hunting and farming.
These indigenous people were related to the peoples of north eastern Asia.
It is thought that their ancestors crossed a land bridge linking Siberia to Alaska around 30,000 BC.
There was gradual movement south to the Great Plains of (the yet to be
called) America.

www.schoolhistory.co.uk

Some/ any and Compounds

Exercise 1 somebody, nobody, nothing, etc.
Exercise 2: every, any, whole
Exercise 3: somewhere, anywhere
Exercise 4: something, anything
Exercise 5: some/any and exceptions
Exercise 6: some/any and exceptions
Exercise 7: some/any and exceptions
Exercise 8: some/any and compounds
Exercise 9: some/any and c0mpounds
Exercise 10: some/any and c0mpounds
Exercise 11: some/any and compounds
Exercise 12: some/any and compounds
Exercise 13: some/any and compounds
Exercise 14: some/any and compounds








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You & Me 2 - The Sporting Life

Vocabulary exercise
Words in Context




Source:
Herderschule

Thanksgiving

Listen to the text and fill in the blanks with words from the drop-down menu.

My amazing Thanksgiving. By filling in words, you can create your own Thanksgiving story.



Listen to the song Turkey Blues and now do this exercise. (Click:Play this game)

The story of Thanksgiving Day. Click here.

Thanksgiving voyage is a gap-fill-in-exercise.






Source:
pagesperso-orange.fr
quia.com
lve.scola.ac-paris.fr
eduplace.com

Exercise: Mixed Tenses

Exercise 1: Simple Present - Present Progressive
Exercise 2: Simple Past - Past Progressive
Exercise 3: Present Perfect - Simple/Progressive
Exercise 4: Will-Future - Going-to-Future
Exercise 5: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 6: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 7: Present Perfect - Simple/Progressive
Exercise 8: Present Perfect - Simple/Progressive - Past
Exercise 9: A quiz on English Tenses
Exercise 10: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 11: Mixed Present and Past Tenses
Exercise 12: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 13: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 14: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 15: Mixed Present and Past Tenses
Exercise 16: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 17 : Mixed Tenses in Context - James Cook
Exercise 18: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 19: Mixed Present and Past Tenses
Exercise 20: Mixed Present and Past Tenses






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Irregular Comparison

Comparison of Adjectives - A Slide Show

comparative adjectives

Irregular adjectives

good	better	best
bad	worse	worst
much	more	most	uncountable nouns
many	more	most	countable nouns
little	less	least
little	smaller	smallest

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Special adjectives

Some ajdectives have two possible forms of comparison.

common	commoner / more common	commonest / most common
likely	likelier / more likely	likeliest / most likely
pleasant	pleasanter / more pleasant	pleasantest / most pleasant
polite	politer / more polite	politest / most polite
simple	simpler / more simple	simplest / most simple
stupid	stupider / more stupid	stupidest / most stupid
subtle	subtler / more subtle	subtlest
sure	surer / more sure	surest / most sure

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Difference in meaning with adjectives

far	farther	farthest	distance
	further	furthest	distance or time
late	later	latest
	latter	x
	x	last
old	older	oldest	people and things
	elder	eldest	people (family)
near	nearer	nearest	distance
	x	next	order

Exercise 1 with "near, late, bad, good, far, old
Exercise 2 Fill in the missing words
Exercise 3 Fill in the missing words
Exercise 4 on Comparison of Adjectives (as...as)
Exercise 5 on the text "London"
Exercise 6 late, last, later, latter, latest
Exercise 7 Comparison mixed

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hsgunskirchen
englisch-hilfen.de
eg4u
rong-chang.com