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CHRISTMAS QUIZ 1.
What is the name of the red-nosed reindeer?
2.
What form of transport does Santa use?
Receive an extra point for the correct spelling! 3.
Who were Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar?
4.
Who was Scrooge’s dead business partner in “A Christmas Carol”? Tiny Tim
5.
Bob Marley
Bob Crachit
Stephen King
S. Claus
Who wrote “A Christmas Carol”? J K Rowling
6.
Jacob Marley
Charles Dickens
Under which plant do we kiss at Christmas? Holly
Mistletoe
Tulip
Poinsettia
7.
Which country provides the huge Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square?
8.
In which year was the Band Aid hit “Do they know it’s Christmas?” first released? 1984
10.
1999
1991
In which year was the first commercial Christmas card produced? 1945
12.
2004
1843
1630
1980
Which single was the Christmas No 1 in the British charts in 2006?
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With love from Norway
The first commercial Christmas card
This resource kindly contributed by Janet Wilkins, Royal Forest of Dean College
[email protected] Adult Literacy (all levels).
December 2007. To print your own copies of this document visit: http://www.skillsworkshop.org
Answers to Quiz 1. Rudolph 2. sleigh 3. the three wise men (three kings) 4. Jacob Marley 5. Charles Dickens 6. mistletoe 7. Norway (they have done this since 1947) 8. 1984 9. 1843 (designed by John Callcott Horsley, one thousand were printed) 10 Leona Lewis “A Moment Like This” (www.everyhit.co.uk)
Differentiation ideas • Read questions aloud for E1-E2. • Fold-over or omit picture clues. • Play in teams. • Display (via data projector) onto a whiteboard / smartboard. Students to write in answers. • Students to work in pairs and write answers as complete sentences. • Students to write their own quizzes.
This resource kindly contributed by Janet Wilkins, Royal Forest of Dean College
[email protected] Adult Literacy (all levels).
