CHRISTMAS, YOU'D BETTER ENJOY IT!!!

Well, well, ready or not, Christmas is here. If you have some time after all the Christmas celebrations and preparation, here you have some activities to improve your English.

1. December, 18th 2009 post

2. January, 8th 2010 post

I always tend to avoid Christmas carols but after reading Dickens's Christmas Carol and the important role of carolers there, I think that for this year's post you are going to get one. Aren't you excited? The Chosen One is Santa Claus is Coming to Town. I'm sure you've heard it a lot and you might have noticed the use of the structure 'You'd better do something' which is used as a warning or a piece of advice.

Here you have a video with the carol and the lyrics so that you can see this language structure in context and then you can do some of the exercises below.

Had better: explanation + exercises
Had better: additional explanation + more exercises
Had better: more practice, if you aren't tired yet.

Mariah Carey's Santa Claus is Coming to Town version.

Other Christmas songs that I like are:

Mariah Carey, All I want from Christmas is you ( Have you seen Love Actually? If not, you'd better see it. You won't regret it, I promise).