Real English: Monty Python "Dead Parrot" Sketch - Idioms for "Dead" and "Broken"

You are going to

• watch / read a TV comedy sketch by Monty Python
• listen to some slang euphemisms for "dead"
• plan / write / act out your own comedy sketch using slang euphemisms for "broken"
• write a formal letter of complaint

Note - this post is designed to get students to use common expressions often heard in the UK. There is another similar post on UK slang here






1) Discuss

• Have you ever had to complain about something?
• What things do people usually complain about?
• What's the silliest thing you have ever complained about?

2) Watch
You are going to watch a comedy sketch from the BBC TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Answer

• Where is the man?
• What is his complaint?

Before you watch look at these slang euphemisms for "dead". How many do you know?

Watch the clip. 
How many of the expressions do you hear?

3) Read
Read the dialogue from the sketch in pairs. Check any vocabulary you don't know.

The cast:

MR. PRALINE - John Cleese
SHOP OWNER -  Michael Palin

The sketch: A customer enters a pet shop.

Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.

(The owner does not respond.)

Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss?

Owner: What do you mean "miss"?

Mr. Praline: (pause) I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!

Owner: Sorry we're closin' for lunch.

Mr. Praline: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.

Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, the Norwegian Blue... What's wrong with it?

Mr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it!

Owner: No, no, it's  resting. Look.

Mr. Praline: Look, my lad, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

Owner: No no it's not dead, he's, it's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue. Beautiful plumage innit,

Mr. Praline: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

Owner: No no no no, no, no! It's resting!

Mr. Praline: All right then, if it's restin', I'll wake him up! (shouting at the cage) 'Ello, Polly! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for when you wake up...

(owner hits the cage)

Owner: There, it moved!

Mr. Praline: No, it didn't, that was you pushing the cage!

Owner: I did not!!

Mr. Praline: Yes, you did!

Mr. Praline: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO POLLY!!!!!

(Takes parrot out of the cage and thumps its head on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)

Mr. Praline: Now that's what I call a dead parrot.

Owner: No, no.....No, it's stunned!
 
Mr. Praline: Look, my lad, I've 'ad just about enough of this. That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I bought it not half an hour ago, you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out following a long squawk.

Owner: Well, he's probably pining for the fjords.

Mr. Praline: PININ' for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that? Look, why did it fall flat on its back the moment I got it home?

Owner: The Norwegian Blue prefers kippin' on it's back! Beautiful bird. Lovely plumage!

Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.

(pause)

Owner: Well, of course it was nailed there! Otherwise it would have nuzzled up to those bars and VOOM! 

Mr. Praline: Look matey, this parrot wouldn't "voom" if Iput four thousand volts through it! It's bleedin' demised!

Owner: It's not! It's pining!

Mr. Praline: It's not pinin'! It's passed on! This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot. It's a stiff! Bereft of life, It rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch It'd be pushing up the daisies! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

(pause)

Owner: Well, I'd better replace it, then. 

Mr. Praline:  If you want to get anything done in this country you've got to complain until you are blue in the mouth.

Owner: Sorry Guv, we're right out of parrots.

Mr. Praline: I see. I see, I get the picture.

Owner: (pause) I got a slug.

(pause)

Mr. Praline: Does it talk?

Owner: Not really.

Mr. Praline: WELL IT'S HARDLY A REPLACEMENT, IS IT?!!???!!?

Owner: Look, tell you what, if you go to my brother's pet shop in Bolton, he'll replace the parrot for you.

Mr. Praline: Bolton, eh? Alright.

(The customer leaves.)

(The customer enters the same pet shop. The owner is putting on a false moustache.)

Mr. Praline: Excuse me, this is Bolton, is it?

Owner: (with a fake moustache) No, it's Ipswich.

Mr. Praline: (looking at the camera) That's inter-city rail for you.

(Mr. Praine goes to the train station. He addresses a man standing behind a desk marked "Complaints".)

Mr. Praline: I wish to complain.

Attendant: I DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS JOB, YOU KNOW!!!

Mr. Praline: I beg your pardon...?

Attendant: I'm a qualified brain surgeon! I only do this job because I like being my own boss!

Mr. Praline: Excuse me, this is irrelevant, isn't it?

Attendant: Yeah, well it's not easy to pad these programs out to 30 minutes.

Mr. Praline: Well, I wish to make a complaint I got on the Bolton train and found myself deposited here in Ipswich.

Attendant: No, this is Bolton.

Mr. Praline: (to the camera) The pet shop owner's brother was lying!!

Attendant: You can't blame British Rail for that.

Mr. Praline: If this is Bolton, I shall return to the pet shop!


Mr. Praline: I understand that this IS Bolton.

Owner: (still with the fake moustache) Yes?

Mr. Praline: You told me it was Ipswich!

Owner: ...It was a pun.

Mr. Praline:  A PUN?!?

Owner: No, no...not a pun...What's that thing which spells the same backwards as forwards?

Mr. Praline: (Long pause) A palindrome?

Owner: Yeah, that's it!

Mr. Praline: It's not a palindrome! The palindrome of "Bolton" would be "Notlob"!! It don't work!!

Owner: Well, what do you want?

Mr. Praline: I'm sorry, I'm not prepared to pursue my line of inquiry any longer as I think this is getting too silly!

Sergeant-Major: Quite agree, quite agree, silly, silly... Right. Get on with it!

Adapted slightly from http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Series_1/53.htm





4) Speak
The comedy sketch is very silly isn't it?
In pairs plan / write / act out a similar silly sketch / dialogue about someone making a complaint about something which is broken.
Look at these euphemisms for broken. How many do you know?

You must include the sentence "I wish to register a complaint" in your dialogue and as many of the "broken" expressions as you can.
Make it silly. Act out or film your dialogues. The funniest one wins.



 
Write
Write a formal letter of complaint based on your dialogue. DO NOT use any of the slang expressions above.

• Start - I am writing to complain about..."
• Describe the problem
• Say what solution you want - a refund. a replacement...
• Finish in an appropriate formal way - I look forward to hearing from you, Yours sincerely...

More 
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Real English - Popular UK slang Intermediate, Phrasal Verbs / Idioms and Slang, Pre-Intermediate, Upper Intermediate

Carry on Doctor  Film and TV,  Intermediate, Past Continuous, Past Simple, Writing, Writing a letter of complaint

Giving Up Marilyn Manson Fashion, Giving Up Marilyn Manson, IELTS, Intermediate, Listening, Phrasal Verbs / Idioms and Slang, Upper Intermediate, Writing

Haunted House Advanced, Listening, Past Simple, Reading, The Haunted House by Dave Allen, Upper Intermediate, Writing, Writing a story

Tom and Jerry - "Buddies Thicker Than Water"

You are going to

• watch a Tom and Jerry cartoon
• practise there is / are, a / some / any, adjectives, to be, plural nouns, present simple

1) Watch the cartoon
Look at the list of nouns.
Watch the cartoon below and put "Yes" if you can see them or "No" if you can't.

Buddies, Thicker Than Water by MistyIsland1

2) Some /Any /A

Look at the sentences and choose the right answer

3) True or False?

4) Adjectives

Choose the best adjective for each picture

5) Summary

Fill in the gaps

Printable worksheets here

More

Practise with another Tom and Jerry cartoon

http://efllecturer.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/tom-and-jerry-feedin-kiddie.html

Tom and Jerry on Cartoon network

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/tomjerry/index.html

Prepositions - "Summer Bummer" by Bill Plympton

You are going to

• watch a short cartoon
• practise prepositions

1) Discuss
Look at the picture

• What's the weather like?
• Where is the man?
• What is he doing?
• What is he going to do?

2) Watch the cartoon

• What is the man thinking about?
• How does the shark get to the swimming pool?

Director: Bill Plympton
Producer: Desiree Stavracos
Editor: Desiree Stavracos
Production Designer: Lindsay Woods
Sound Designer: Weston Fonger
Music: Corey Jackson




3) Do the gap-fill
Look at these sentences
Put  the correct prepositions in the spaces.

Printable worksheet here




4) What can you remember?
Tell the story again. Don't look at the exercise. Can you remember all the prepositions?






More
Prepositions games

Hangman  http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/k/words.php?f=prepositions

Bilionaire
http://eslgamesworld.com/members/games/ClassroomGames/Billionaire/Prepositions%20of%20Place%20Billionaire/index.html

Penalty shoot out
http://kidseslgames.com/grammar%20games/Prepositions/prepositions1.html

Prepositions of place  http://englishflashgames.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/prepositions-of-place-game.html

Find the mouse http://www.tcet.com/eaonline/FlashedESL/CatsMX.swf

Tom And Jerry - "Feedin' The Kiddie"

You are going to 

• watch a Tom and Jerry cartoon
• practise food, colours and the present simple
• do some gap-fill exercises

1) Watch the cartoon

Look at the words. Watch the cartoon below. Can you see them in the cartoon?  
Watch and put "Yes" or "No"

Tom And Jerry Feedin The Kiddie Episode 107 (WatchCartoonOnline.Us) 

2) Can you remember the colours?

3) Look at the pictures. What can you see?

4) Summary. Write a word in the gaps

5) A, An or Some?

More

Printable worksheets are here

Food activities for young learners http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/foodTopic.htm

Pages for colouring http://www.tomandjerryonline.com/coloring.cfm

Mr Bean At The Olympics 2012 Opening

You are going to 

• watch a Mr Bean video
• practise Present Continuous

 

Watch

Watch the video
What is Mr bean doing?

Mr.Bean At 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony por videobash

Practise

Do the gap-fill exercise

Printable version here

Speak

Look at the photos

What is Mr Bean doing?

More Mr Bean

• Mr Bean at the Dentist (Past Simple) Past Simple
• Mr Bean at the Dentist (Present Simple)  Present Simple
• Mr Bean - Merry Christmas Mr Bean  Past Simple, Christmas vocabulary
• Mr Bean's sandwich Present Simple and Continuous, Past Simple, Some / Any

Shaun of the Dead - Passive for News

You are going to

• watch a clip of the film "Shaun of the Dead"
• listen to the passive used in a news broadcast
• do some comprehension activities

Shaun of the Dead (2004) directed and co-written by Edgar Wright, co-written and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_of_the_Dead
The DVD is available on amazon here

1) Discuss

Do you like comedy films?
Do you like horror films?

Watch the Trailer. What kind of film is Shaun of the Dead?

2) Introduction

Shaun of the Dead
Shaun is a salesman whose life has no direction. He has a Mum, a stepfather (Phillip), and he shares his house with a housemate, Pete. Ed, Shaun's best friend, lives on their sofa. Shaun's girlfriend, Liz, has broken up with him so Shaun goes for a drink with Ed at the Winchester pub...







3) Before you watch
Vocabulary - Check you know the meanings of these words and expressions

• to confront
• to be mugged
• crackheads
• sketchy
• to flee
• standstill
• assailants
• be "a bit under the weather"
• to grab
• wait for something to "blow over"

4) Watch the film

The film cannot be embedded here from YouTube

• so click here to watch it on YouTube. Watch 00:21.00 - 00:37.40
• or watch this clip here for exercises A,B and C
• Ex D can be seen here

If you have the DVD watch from 00:21.00 - 00:37.40
Then do exercises A, B, C and D



A) True or False? 
Watch 00:20:55 - 00:26:45 and do the true of false exercise below

B) The News.
Look at the exercise and watch 00:26:45 - 00: 34:35 and fill in the gaps with the correct passive

 

C) Mum's phone call
Watch 00: 34:35 - 00:35:27 and listen to the phone call. Match Shaun's questions with his mum's answers

D) The Plan
What's the final plan?
Watch 00:35:27 - 00:37:13 and fill in the space with a verb

Printable worksheet here

More

Shaun of the Dead fan site http://www.shaunofthedead.com/

Passives
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-28628.php

http://a4esl.org/q/f/x/xz89mgu.htm

Why did the mushroom go to the party?

You are going to

• look at homonyms and homophones and similarly pronounced words
• look at words in English which have more than one meaning (homonyms)
• look at the way differently spelt words can have the same pronunciation (homophones)
• look at how these words are used to make jokes in English
• look at some puns, bad puns and jokes in English
• practise some English jokes and be the life of the party!

1) Discuss

• Do you know any jokes?
• Do you know any jokes in English?
• Do you like jokes?
• Do you tell a lot of jokes?
• How do we make jokes?

2) Watch

Watch this clip from a quiz program called QI.

Fungi

They are talking about fungi when one of the contestants, comedian Alan Davies, starts making jokes...

• What are the jokes? 
• Can you understand them? 
• Do you think they are funny?
• Why did the mushroom go to the party?

Here are jokes again. Highlight for the answers

Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Answer = He was a fungi 

What's brown and sticky?
Answer = A stick

What do you call a boomerang that won't come back?
Answer = A stick

What's orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer = A carrot

What's red and silly?
Answer = A blood clot

What's red and sits in the corner?
Answer = A naughty strawberry

What's green and sings?
Answer = Elvis Parsley







3) Puns, jokes, homonyms and homophones
The first joke in the clip is a pun 
"fungi" sounds like "fun guy"


pun (n.) A play on words, sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

Puns are everywhere in English; newspaper headlines, adverts, shops... and especially in jokes. English speakers love playing with words.

 


Presentation
Before you watch
Check. What do these words mean? How many of them have more than one meaning?

horns, boot, keyboard, sole, flies, hoarse, like, tense, pullover, dig up, tack, intense, well, fan, tow, paw, assault, bright

Now look at the presentation below and answer

• Which words are homonyms?
• Which words are homophones?
• What are homonyms and homophones?

Click to see.

Puns - Homophones and Homonyms from David Mainwood

Do you get spam?

4) Practise homonyms

Words with the same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings.

A) Can you match the meanings to the words?

B) Now fill in the gaps with the right word. Do you understand the jokes?

Let's hope the food isn't as disastrous as the ship

.

5) Practise homophones

Words with different spelling and different meanings but the same pronunciation.

Match the homophones in this exercise

Printable version here

Not a homophone and a terrible pun, but a clever name!

Let's hope the job is better than the pun.

6) Practise

1. Write out some of your favourite jokes. Do you have any jokes in your language which you can translate into English? Find some pictures to illustrate the jokes and make a powerpoint presentation.
2. Record or film yourself telling some jokes. Be careful you get the pronunciation right or the jokes won't be funny.

7) More

Homonyms and homophones  http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/other/homonyms/homonyms.htm

Homophones list http://www.bifroest.demon.co.uk/misc/homophones-list.html

Activity and game  http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/Phase2delivery/Wales/Literacy/Keystage2/Writing/Homophones/Introduction/activity1pop.htm

Homophones game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en21watc-game-paris-word

More puns

http://iteslj.org/c/jokes-puns.html

http://puns.icanhascheezburger.com/

Groundhog Day

Teacher's note; the worksheet below was designed to be watched in a computer room as an individual student activity. It is quite long (the opening 30 minutes of the film) and revises present simple for habit. The advantages of doing the activity individually are that it gives the student the chance to pause and rewind difficult sections of dialogue until they have understood and completed the worksheet to their own satisfaction. However it can be done as group activity in class if it is divided into more easily digestible chunks.

The film is not on Youtube

DVD available from amazon here


1) Introduction
Festival

• What happens at the Groundhog Day festival?
• When is it?

Find out here

Film
Watch the film trailer

• What is Phil Connors' job? 
• Why is he in Punxsutawney?
• What strange thing happens to him there?

2) Reading

• Toby Young's review of Groundhog Day here
• Pages from New progress to First Certificate: Self-study student's book By Leo Jones (1997, out of print) based on Tony Young's review on Google Books here

3) Film worksheet

Groundhog Day (first 30 mins of film) for EFL

View more documents from David Mainwood

4) Discuss

• Why do you think Phil is living the same day again and again?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of living the same day again and again?
• If you were Phil what would you do? 
• Would you want to stay repeating the same day or would you try to find a way out?
• What do you think Phil will learn from the experience?
• What do you think is the message of the film?

5) More Groundhog Day resources
The Best Resources For Groundhog Day
by Larry Ferlazzo
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/02/03/the-best-resources-for-groundhog-day/ 

Breakfast with Eric and Ernie

You are going to

• discuss breakfast
• look at breakfast / kitchen words
• watch a video about breakfast
• practise asking and answering questions in the present simple
• practise using auxiliaries in the present simple - Do, Don't, Does, Doesn't
• describe what you do for breakfast
  

Teacher's note. This activity is designed to practise the present simple. By substituting Did for Do / Does it can also practise the past. Students can describe the activity in the past if they know the past forms of eat, drink, listen, make, put, throw, catch, beat (eggs), squeeze, open, close, toss (pancakes), cut, take

Revise and practise the present simple here http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/04/present-simple.html


Scroll down for the SlideRocket presentation version of this post

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise were two famous British comedians. This clip shows how they make breakfast when they are listening to the radio.

Discuss

1) What time do you have breakfast?

2) What do you eat and drink for breakfast?
    Do you

• drink tea?
• drink coffee?
• drink orange juice?
• eat a cereal?
• eat toast?
• eat bacon and eggs?
• eat biscuits?
• eat pancakes?
• make your breakfast?

3) Look at the photo. What can you see on the table?
 

4) What is your kitchen like? Describe it.


5) Have you got these in your kitchen?

milk	knife
bowls	kettle
cups	teapot
tray	bread
plates	toaster
cupboards	lemons
eggs

6) What other things have you got in your kitchen? Make a list in 1 minute.eg kettle, cooker...

Watch the clip

1) Vocabulary check
What do these words mean?

throw, catch, slices, beat (eggs), squeeze, open, close, toss (pancakes), cut, take

2) Look at the photos. What are their names?

Eric

Ernie

3a) Look at the list of breakfast activities before you watch.
Put their names next to the activities you see them do. After you watch do the interactive exercises below the video
 

listen to the radio √ = Eric and Ernie	beat the eggs √ = Ernie
eat breakfast cereal	cut the lemons √ = Eric
drink coffee = X (They don't drink coffee)	squeeze lemons
eat biscuits	toss pancakes
throw slices of bread	put water in the tea pot
catch the bread	make the tea
put bread in the toaster	catch the toast
open the cupboards	take sausages out of the fridge

Watch

3b) How much can you remember? Choose the correct answer

Practise

Ask and answer questions
For example

• Does Eric catch the bread? Yes he does
• Does Ernie put the bread in the toaster. No he doesn't, Eric puts the bread in the toaster

Continue...

Revise and practise the present simple here http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/04/present-simple.html

Write

Describe what you do for breakfast
I have breakfast at 8 o'clock. I drink...

Practice of past simple

Look at the pictures at the end of the presentation below

Tell the story in the past. Use the vocabulary from the exercises and these verbs in the past; eat, drink, listen, make, put, throw, catch, beat (eggs), squeeze, open, close, toss (pancakes), cut, take

For example;  This morning Eric and Ernie had breakfast. They ate cereal and listened to the radio…

Breakfast with Eric and Ernie from David Mainwood

Merry Christmas Mr Bean

Teacher's note;

The activities in the worksheet at the bottom of this post are based on the full episode available on DVD or on youtube http://youtu.be/L2UCRNldC3s (it cannot be embedded here).

This post contains some exercises based on the embeddable youtube clips. The answers are in the worksheet.

DVD available here

Mr Bean celebrates the traditional British Christmas: the baubles, the crackers, the nativity scene, the carols, the presents, the turkey and the mistletoe... they are all here. As no British Christmas is complete without a disaster or two that makes it the typical British Christmas!

You are going to

• discuss Christmas
• watch the Christmas Mr Bean episode and do some activities
• find Christmas words in a word search exercise
• write the story in the past tense
• find out more about the typical British Christmas and some of the Christmas things in the video.

Christmas Vocabulary – crackers,  mistletoe, Christmas tree, tinsel, carols, carol singers, Santa Claus / Father Christmas, stockings, presents, holly, turkey, stuffing, fairy lights, angel, star, cards, pudding, baubles, nativity scene, baby Jesus, manger.

Discuss

• Do you celebrate Christmas?
• What do people usually do on Christmas Eve in the UK?
• What do people usually do on Christmas Day in the UK?
• Do you know of any special Christmas food or Christmas customs in the UK?
• What decorations do we have?
• What’s a cracker?
• What’s mistletoe?
• What are carols?

Watch clip 1
Answer the questions in the interactive exercise after you watch

1. Did Mr Bean have any Christmas decorations?
2. What Christmas decorations did Mr Bean have?
3. What kind of films were on TV?
4. Did Mr Bean like the films?
5. What did the children sing?
6. Did Mr Bean like them?
7. What did he eat?
8. Did he give the children anything?

Now do  exercise 1 (the answers to questions 9 and 10 are in the next clip)

Watch clip 2

Answer the questions in the interactive exercise after you watch

1) What were his 3 Christmas presents and who were they for?


2) Who says it?
Put “B” for Bean or “G” for his girlfriend.

___”Are you alright in there?”
___“Fine, thank you”

___“Cup of tea?”
___“Oh Yes, if you’re having one”
___“Well I might”
___“Have you got the turkey on?”
___“Do you want a hand?”
___“No, no, thank you”



3) Fill in the gaps from this list of verbs                        
USE THE PAST FORMS                                                      
(You can use some verbs more than once)
Pull  Eat  Give  Do  Cry  Make  Be  Ring  Find  Leave  Want  Scream  Throw  Lose  Put  Hang  Be  See

1. Mr Bean _____  lunch
2. The turkey ______ very big
3. He ______ stuffing inside the turkey
4. He ______ his watch
5. His girlfriend ______ the doorbell
6. She ______ up the mistletoe
7. She ______ when she ___ Mr Bean
8. She ______ the coal bucket out the window
9. Mr Bean ______ his watch
10. They ______ sandwiches for lunch
11. She ______ him a present
12. She ______ a kiss
13. He ______ want to kiss her
14. He _____ her a present
15. She ______ after she ___  her present and ______ the flat
16. Mr Bean ______ the cracker
17. There ___ an explosion

Now do exercises 2 and 3

4) Do the word square

There are 19 Christmas words hidden in this box. Can you find them all?
The words go across → and down ↓
 

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5) Do the crossword

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Worksheet and answers

Merry Christmas Mr Bean for EFL

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5) Writing

• Tell the story of Mr Bean's Christmas in the past. Start Mr Bean went shopping in Harrods. He...
• Describe your typical Christmas 
• Describe a similar festival in your country (talk about the typical food, clothes, traditional activities etc)

6) Reading / Webquest
Find out about the typical British Christmas.

Click on the links to find the answers
Why do we decorate our houses at Christmas?
When is Boxing Day?
Why is it called Boxing Day?
What is Christmas Pudding? 
Why do we have Christmas trees?
Who is Father Christmas?
What are mince pies?
What is a nativity play?
What do children do at Christmas?
What are the 12 days of Christmas?

Read more about the traditional British Christmas here  http://projectbritain.com/Xmas/index.html#top

More activities here http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/christmas.html