Present or review numbers 1 to 24. Talk about advent calendars, and present the idea of making a chain 24 loops long to be reduced by a loop a day until Christmas. Give teams the strips and ask them to arrange the strips in order before using sellotape or stickers to make them into a chain. Strengthen the chain by laminating sheets back to back. The child who removes the loop on a given day can wear it like a bracelet for the day/ lesson. Learners can have their own print outs to take home, decorate and make up into a chain.

Vocabulary of furniture and renting apartments, finding the right flat for people's needs, and offering your house in an exchange programme.

Learn the endings for the future verb forms Learn a few common irregular stems Talk and write about future holidays

Printable game and video explaining the language you need to play

Children count / are counted to and change position when ten is reached, from lying down, to jogging on the spot, to sitting quietly. The children then sing / are sung a finger counting song that can be adapted to count any new piece of vocab. This song is easy to find on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghzmrqx09-w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtiC0UV_fQ&feature=related

Children learn to say we give thanks, who to give thanks to - Mother Earth in this case, and what to give thanks for - fruit in this case. They sing a song and make a greetings card. There is a youtube video of me teaching this lesson to 3 puppets (!) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBMPqk4Pybk