For our last English classes, we will have a White Elephant Christmas party. In a White Elephant Christmas party, every participant brings a wrapped gift. The gift can be anything from something you no longer want to something you buy at the store for cheap. It can be a joke, food, candy, toys, something useless to something very useful. Oftentimes, my friends pick item from their house that they no longer use. A "white elephant" is an idiom for a valuable but burdensome item which it's owner cannot dispose of. Some people will get lucky with gifts and others will not be lucky.
To start the class, everybody draws (picks) a number from a hat. The person who has number 1, has the first pick. He/she chooses a present and unwraps it.
It is now the turn of the person who has number 2. Person 2 can pick an unwrapped present or steal an already opened present. If Person 2, steals the present, then Person 1 chooses another present. A present cannot be immediately re-stolen after it is stolen. The stolen present has to wait for someone else to choose or steal another present before it can be stolen again. Presents can only be stolen 3 times.
After all the presents are opened. Person 1 has the option to trade his/her gift with whoever he/she wants.
Do not forget to bring a present to the next class. :)
