{"id":3091,"date":"2012-12-01T07:12:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2014-01-15T12:33:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T20:33:11","slug":"advent-and-christmas-videos-for-the-catholic-classroom-and-a-bonus-christmas-carol-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/advent-and-christmas-videos-for-the-catholic-classroom-and-a-bonus-christmas-carol-puzzle","title":{"rendered":"Advent and Christmas Videos for the Catholic Classroom (and a Bonus Christmas Carol Puzzle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/catholic-educators-meet-on-twitter-each-saturday-morning\">#CatholicEdChat<\/a>, I shared a few YouTube videos that I sometimes use with my students. Here they are in one convenient place for you to use, along with a special word puzzle, Translate that Christmas Carol.<\/p>\n<p>(This post will update as I find more Advent\/Christmas videos)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advent Conspiracy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mzOZMBOEZZo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Advent in 2 Minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S02KOlw7dlA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bethlehemian Rhapsody<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pW1pbuyGlQ0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas Food Court Flash Mob of Hallelujah Chorus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SXh7JR9oKVE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fr. Jim Martin on Good King Wenceslas by The Roches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZK3ZOgcEIk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Lewis Christmas Advert 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pSLOnR1s74o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sean Quigley &#8211; The Little Drummer Boy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IrNcD34KFhM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Darth Vader Conducts Christmas Carol Flash Mob<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jiDTufRNL10?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rudolph (You Don&#8217;t Have to Put on the Red Light)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5N4EFVgtB0Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus Word Puzzle: Translate that Christmas Tune<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a fun Christmas\/vocabulary activity try having your students translate these verbose Christmas carol titles back into their original form:<\/p>\n<p>Example: Soundless Nocturnal Timespan (answer: Silent Night)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Move Hitherward the Entire Assembly of Those Who Are Loyal in Their Belief<\/li>\n<li>Ornament the Enclosure with Large Sprigs of a Berry-Bearing Evergreen<\/li>\n<li>Vertically-Challenged Adolescent Percussionist<\/li>\n<li>First Person (Singular) Experiencing an Hallucinatory Phenomenon of a Natal Celebration Devoid of Color<\/li>\n<li>Soundless Nocturnal Timespan<\/li>\n<li>Majestic Triplet (First Person Plural)<\/li>\n<li>The Yuletide Occurrence Preceding All Others<\/li>\n<li>Precious Metal Musical Devices<\/li>\n<li>Omnipotent Supreme Being Elicits Respite to Ecstatic Distinguished Males<\/li>\n<li>Caribou Afflicted with Vermillion Olfactory Appendage<\/li>\n<li>Allow Crystalline Formation to Descend<\/li>\n<li>Jovial Yuletide Desired for the Second Person (Singular or Plural)<\/li>\n<li>Commence Auditory Reception, the Celestial Messengers Produce Harmonious Sounds<\/li>\n<li>Village Expectations of a Yuletide Emmisary<\/li>\n<li>Bipedal Travel through a Geographic State of Fantasy During the Season of Mother Nature&#8217;s Dormancy<\/li>\n<li>Arrival Occurred at Twelve O&#8217;clock During Clement Nocturnal Period<\/li>\n<li>Exclamatory Remark Concerning a Diminutive Municipality of Judea<\/li>\n<li>Ecstatic Experience Directed Toward Global Inhabitants<\/li>\n<li>First Person (Plural) Acoustic Awareness of Extra-Terrestrial Messengers at Great Altitude<\/li>\n<li>Obese Male Personification Consisting of Aggregate Compaction of Individual Water Crystals, with Appellation of Surface Crystalline Deposition of Water Vapor<\/li>\n<li>Tintinnabulation of Vacillating Pendulums in Metallic Resonant Spheres<\/li>\n<li>Improvised Infant Furniture in Remote Location<\/li>\n<li>Imperative Expedition for the Purpose of Proclaiming Upon a Specific Alpine Formation<\/li>\n<li>First Person\u2019s Perplexed Contemplations Upon a Period of Aimless Meandering<\/li>\n<li>Wintertime Festivity Consisting of a Dozen Planetary Sidereal Rotations<\/li>\n<li>My Sole Desire for the Yuletide Season Is Receipt of a Pair of Central Incisors<\/li>\n<li>Are You Detecting the Same Aural Sensations as I Am?<\/li>\n<li>Who&#8217;s the Mystery Offspring?<\/li>\n<li>Testimony of Witness to Maternal Parent&#8217;s Infidelity with Kris Kringle<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For the answers, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Translate-That-Christmas-Tune-Key.doc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s #CatholicEdChat, I shared a few YouTube videos that I sometimes use with my students. Here they are in one convenient place for you to use, along with a special word puzzle, Translate that Christmas Carol. (This post will update as I find more Advent\/Christmas videos) Advent Conspiracy Advent in 2 Minutes Bethlehemian Rhapsody &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/advent-and-christmas-videos-for-the-catholic-classroom-and-a-bonus-christmas-carol-puzzle\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent and Christmas Videos for the Catholic Classroom (and a Bonus Christmas Carol Puzzle)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[87,89,26],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teaching-tips","category-technology","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-NR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2187,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/poll-how-willing-are-you-to-make-advent-more-meaningful","url_meta":{"origin":3091,"position":0},"title":"Poll: How Willing Are You to Make Advent More Meaningful?","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"December 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City and Deacon Greg Kandra of Brooklyn have recently challenged us to not lose sight of the importance of the Advent season. 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