Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the Christmas traditions that are followed in Germany, a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a recount about how Christmas is celebrated in a family, a worksheet to select vocabulary for prepositions of time to structure and sequence a recount about how Christmas is celebrated by families and a template to structure and write a recount about visiting relatives in Germany to describe Christmas traditions.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a recount about visiting relatives in Germany to describe Christmas traditions.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to explore how different countries around the world celebrate Christmas by following a range of special customs and traditions that reflect religious and secular stories. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.