12 Days of Christmas - fun writing task based on the song

Imagine your fiance decided to send you all the presents named in the song. How would you react?

In this resource, a young woman called Emily writes letters to her fiance, George, after the first seven presents arrive. Naturally, the tone changes quite a bit, as her house fills up with birds, women and cows. Her family are none too pleased, either.

Read the seven letters aloud with the class, and then get them, alone or in pairs, to write some or all of the remaining five. It’s lots of fun, but it also teaches them about tone and vocab at the end of a long term!