Santa's Been Kidnapped! Can You Help?

ONLINE WORKSHOP for levels B1 and C1

Santa has been kidnapped!!! (watch VIDEO )

Students need to explore the map and complete different activities to find Santa: grammar & vocabulary exercises, listening & use of English tasks or 1 min. speaking challenges, riddles, online games, cryptograms etc. and finally... an ESCAPE GAME (about 10 min)!

Here’s how it goes, step by step:

• Watch the VIDEO approx. 2min.
• “Last place ?? was seen... it has to be the North Pole, right? He was getting ready for Christmas Eve! Right? I've found this old MAP of the North Pole on the web… Let’s check...”
• Open the SLIDESHOW presentation (best works with LibreOffice)
• Ask your students to explore the map as they wish or follow the numbers in order.
• Click on the numbers and complete the tasks, you can control the time and skip some numbers if needed. List of activities on the following page.
• In the last 20 min of the class pretend you receive a call. It's detective Rudolph telling you that he has just got a hint “Look for 20…” but the line gets cut off. Ask your students “20 what?! Is there any 20 on the map?!”
• Click on the North Pole sign, no.20 will show up on the igloo – top right corner.
• Click the number and you will be redirected to the riddle: Can you prove that 20=22? The answer is 20 = 20 TOO (two). After about a minute no 22 will show up on the largest glacier (left side, under the Wild Land of the Elves).
• Click no. 22 and you will be redirected to a message HELP ME!
• Go back to the map and look for Santa! BE QUICK! After about 30 seconds the picture of Santa tied to the rocket will show up next to the igloo no.24.
• Click on the picture with Santa and you will be redirected to the ESCAPE GAME. Make sure you have watched the WALKTHROUGH or have the video at hand on your mobile phone. You can give remote control access to your students on Zoom so they can explore all the rooms freely.
• When they finish the escape game and find SANTA you can turn back to the presentation and you will see Santa next to his house, waving his hand at us!
• Don’t forget to send your students the reward - GIFT through the chatbox - a Christmas card, some online resources, some Apps to practice their English skills etc.

HAVE FUN!

LIST OF ACTIVITIES C1

1. Open the MAP Presentation
2. Riddle: What gets wet while drying? A towel
3. Can you? Challenge: a bundle of joy etc.
4. Listening: PlayStation vs Xbox
5. Riddle: What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence? Time to fix the fence!
6. Can You? Challenge: flotsam etc.
7. Riddle: What kind of band never plays music? A rubber band
8. Grammar Revision: Wishes/Unreal Past
9. TABOO CARD: THRIFTY Send the link to the student in a private message!
10. Riddle: What has one eye, but cannot see? A needle
11. Christmas Key Word Transformations
12. Riddle: What can you hold with your right hand, but never with your left hand?
13. Can You? Challenge: the sky’s the limit etc.
14. Guess Who’s Coming to Christmas Dinner? Spanish 'celebrities'
15. Riddle: What you can catch, but never throw? A cold
16. TABOO CARD: BLIZZARD Send the link to the student in a private message!
17. X-MAS Cryptogram
18. Riddle: What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner? A stamp
19. Letter to Santa C1 Use of English PART 2
20. Riddle: Can you prove that 20=22? 20=20TOO (TWO)
21. skip
22. HELP ME! Message
23. skip
24. ESCAPE GAME (approx. 10min) + WALKTHROUGH (scroll down the page till you get to the video)

Answers to 11. Christmas Key Word Transformations:

1. as a result of eating
2. used to take me
3. give you a refund unless/give a refund unless
4. as a consequence of
5. on account of the children finding
6. had finished eating

LIST OF ACTIVITIES B1

1. Open the B1 MAP Presentation
2. Riddle: What gets wet while drying? A towel
3. Christmas Emoji Fitness Challenge
4. Just a Minute Christmas Challenge
5. Riddle: What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence? Time to fix the fence!
6. Just Dance Santa Claus
7. Riddle: What kind of band never plays music? A rubber band
8. Just a Minute Christmas Challenge
9. Listening: Simon’s Cat Christmas - Adjectives
10. Riddle: What has one eye, but cannot see? A needle
11. Just a Minute Christmas Challenge Spanish 'celebrities'
12. Riddle: What can you hold with your right hand, but never with your left hand?
13. Christmas Card GAME
14. Guess Who’s Coming to Christmas Dinner?
15. Riddle: What you can catch, but never throw? A cold
16. X-MAS Alphabet Game
17. X-MAS Cryptogram
18. Riddle: What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner? A stamp
19. Letter to Santa
20. Riddle: Can you prove that 20=22? 20=20 TOO (TWO)
21. skip
22. HELP ME! Message
23. skip
24. ESCAPE GAME B1 (approx. 10min) + WALKTHROUGH (make sure you have the walkthrough video at hand)

IMPORTANT!

If the presentation doesn’t work properly on your computer, use this MAP in .pdf and guide your students through the activities from the list above. You’ll need to improvise a bit your performance from no.20 on.

Good luck!