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Santa Claus is Coming to Town

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Santa Claus is Coming to Town is a very popular Christmas carol sung during the Christmas season. Christmas is one of the most important western festivals and one which Chinese citizens, especially children, seem to enjoy. On Christmas day, Stephen Chappell, a foreign teacher in our college, dressed up as Santa and headed to Changfeng Centre Primary School for a Christmas activity.

Stephen was invited by the school to give a lesson on Christmas to students in grade 5 and 6. The lesson involved teaching Christmas vocabulary and the Christmas carol Jingle Bells. The students were very excited as they had never seen a foreigner before and had certainly never seen Santa before. The lessons included several games such as Christmas bingo, gift relay races, and guessing the gift. The activity was filmed by Anqing Television for later broadcast on the local news.

Stephen thinks that these types of activities are important as they show the presence of the foreign teacher in the community. As he says” “Anqing is, for the time being, my home away from home. I live here and I work here and I wish to be part of the community. Reaching out to smaller schools in the countryside is one way I can make a contribution.”

Anqing Normal University Party committee office, principal office and foreign affairs office address: No. 1318, Jixian North Road, Anhui, Anqing, tel number: 0556-5300148