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Here are some Christmas resources that may be useful to language teachers:

-Christmas Magazine has a variety of resources available in English, French, and German at http://www.christmasmagazine.com

-A French Advent calendar is available from About.com at http://french.about.com/library/blxm-adventcalendar.htm?nl=1

-Some useful French links for Chanukah are available from the Canadian Parents for French website at http://members.shaw.ca/cpf99/CPF-FIAL-0040-07-Culture-Rel-Fr-Chanukah.html

-Learn how to sing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in Japanese from About.com at http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa121600.htm?nl=1

-A Christmas webquest for German students can be downloaded from http://www.ukgermanconnection.org/cms/domains/ukgc.org/local/media/multipliers/schools/_pdf/Christmas%20Special%20web%20quest_2009.pdf ; the website is at http://www.ukgermanconnection.org/cms/?location_id=660

-For French Santa Claus web sites see:
For Primary students:
http://members.shaw.ca/cpf99/annee2/culture/Pere-noel.html
Related Parent volunteer helping notes at:
http://www.geocities.com/qpac1999/FI2-Lab-Internet-Project-2.html
For older students:
http://members.shaw.ca/cpf99/CPF-FIAL-0040-08-Culture-Rel-Fr-Santa-Claus.html

Wright, L. [LIM-A] CPF - French Santa Claus web sites. Language Immersion in the Americas Discussion list (LIM-A@LISTS.UMN.EDU, 7 Dec 2009).

-The BBC has a website with Christmas information and activities for learners of French, German, Spanish, and Italian at http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/christmas

-Access an index of links to popular Christmas carols in Spanish, where they are known as villancicos, alphabetized by their titles in both English and Spanish, from About.com at http://spanish.about.com/od/spanishchristmascarols/a/carols.htm

-A “Christmas in Germany” lesson plan is available at http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/technology/WOWLessons/MillerChristmasinGermany.htm

-More Christmas activities for Spanish, Italian, and French are available at http://www.euroclubschools.org.uk/index.htm

-Three more online German Advent calendars are available at http://www.studiofo.com/adventCalendar , http://www.adventskalender.net/mp3-adventskalender/adventskalender001.htm , and http://www.hueber.de/adventskalender2009

-An annotated list of Christmas resources, mostly for French students, is available at http://chilternedgemfl.typepad.com/chiltern-edge-mfl/no%C3%ABl.html

-Here are two Christmas scavenger hunts. They are also on a Quia Scavenger hunt activity which is in the Activities section of each. If you have an account you can copy them and adapt them for your own usage.

French site:
http://www.quia.com/pages/mfreeman/page22
answer key:
http://www.quia.com/pages/mfreeman/page23

Spanish site:
http://www.quia.com/pages/mfreeman/page10
answer key:
http://www.quia.com/pages/mfreeman/page43

Freeman, M. [FLTEACH] Christmas scavenger hunts. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 30 Nov 2009).
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