{"id":151,"date":"2007-12-10T16:40:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T23:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/translate-that-christmas-carol"},"modified":"2016-12-13T08:46:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T16:46:29","slug":"translate-that-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/translate-that-christmas-carol","title":{"rendered":"Translate that Christmas Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Christmas<\/p>\n

For a fun Christmas\/vocabulary activity try having your students translate these verbose Christmas carol titles back into their original form:<\/p>\n

Example: Soundless Nocturnal Timespan (answer: Silent Night)<\/p>\n

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  1. Move Hitherward the Entire Assembly of Those Who Are Loyal in Their Belief<\/li>\n
  2. Ornament the Enclosure with Large Sprigs of a Berry-Bearing Evergreen<\/li>\n
  3. Vertically-Challenged Adolescent Percussionist<\/li>\n
  4. First Person (Singular) Experiencing an Hallucinatory Phenomenon of a Natal Celebration Devoid of Color<\/li>\n
  5. Majestic Triplet (First Person Plural)<\/li>\n
  6. The Yuletide Occurrence Preceding All Others<\/li>\n
  7. Precious Metal Musical Devices<\/li>\n
  8. Omnipotent Supreme Being Elicits Respite to Ecstatic Distinguished Males<\/li>\n
  9. Caribou Afflicted with Vermillion Olfactory Appendage<\/li>\n
  10. Allow Crystalline Formation to Descend<\/li>\n
  11. Jovial Yuletide Desired for the Second Person (Singular or Plural)<\/li>\n
  12. Commence Auditory Reception, the Celestial Messengers Produce Harmonious Sounds<\/li>\n
  13. Village Expectations of a Yuletide Emmisary<\/li>\n
  14. Bipedal Travel through a Geographic State of Fantasy During the Season of Mother Nature’s Dormancy<\/li>\n
  15. Arrival Occurred at Twelve O’clock During Clement Nocturnal Period<\/li>\n
  16. Exclamatory Remark Concerning a Diminutive Municipality of Judea<\/li>\n
  17. Ecstatic Experience Directed Toward Global Inhabitants<\/li>\n
  18. First Person (Plural) Acoustic Awareness of Extra-Terrestrial Messengers at Great Altitude<\/li>\n
  19. Obese Male Personification Consisting of Aggregate Compaction of Individual Water Crystals, with Appellation of Surface Crystalline Deposition of Water Vapor<\/li>\n
  20. Tintinnabulation of Vacillating Pendulums in Metallic Resonant Spheres<\/li>\n
  21. Improvised Infant Furniture in Remote Location<\/li>\n
  22. Imperative Expedition for the Purpose of Proclaiming Upon a Specific Alpine Formation<\/li>\n
  23. Wintertime Festivity Consisting of a Dozen Planetary Sidereal Rotations<\/li>\n
  24. My Sole Desire for the Yuletide Season Is Receipt of a Pair of Central Incisors<\/li>\n
  25. Are You Detecting the Same Aural Sensations as I Am?<\/li>\n
  26. Who’s the Mystery Offspring?<\/li>\n
  27. Testimony of Witness to Maternal Parent’s Infidelity with Kris Kringle<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Answers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Some of my students read this blog, so use the contact form on the About page<\/a> and I’ll send them to you via email.<\/p>\n

    Share!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    If you use this is in class, consider sharing one of your Christmas activities with Teen Literacy Tips readers by posting to your blog and leaving a link below in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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