Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Festivals and Celebrations
ESL lesson plans for teachers of the English language. Check out our collection of lesson plans filed under the theme 'Festivals and Celebrations'.
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Festivals and Celebrations- Modals of Obligation, Prohibition and Permission
Students discuss what rules they want for Xmas and then for other seasonal events for practice of modals and similar language like have to and allowed to, good for business grammar classes.
Festivals and Celebrations- Telephoning Roleplays
Telephoning practice on Xmas topics and then about other life events and celebrations, good for adding a lighter touch and some seasonality to Business English classes.
Festivals and Celebrations- Vocabulary
Language of advice/ suggestions/ recommendations practice on the topic of seasonal festivals and celebrations, good for functional language speaking at particular times of the year.
Generalising about festivals and celebrations
Using hedging language to make soft and strong statements about traditional events, including asking and answering how + adjectives questions
Good and bad Valentine’s countable and uncountable speaking
Students decide how much and how many of which things would make a great Valentine's Day, with nouns which are both countable and uncountable with different meanings and quantifiers with different kinds of nouns presentations.
Good and taboo questions about Valentine’s Day
Love and relationships vocabulary practice through normal and odd questions related to Valentine's Day
Halloween party countable and uncountable nouns speaking
Countable nouns and uncountable nouns speaking practice on the topic of Halloween and parties, with Halloween vocabulary and a count/ non-count grammar presentation.
Halloween prepositions of movement games
Two drawing games and one storytelling game to practise adverbs of movement and halloween vocabulary.
Halloween vocabulary relative clauses definitions game
Defining relative clauses and relative pronouns speaking practice with a Halloween theme.
Is and are with prepositions Xmas drawing game
Prepositions of location and Present Simple of be practice through a fun drawing game, including lots of useful Xmas vocabulary.
Is there are there Xmas drawing coin game
Yes/ no questions with there is/ there are practice through a fun drawing game, with a countable/ uncountable and short answers grammar presentation, and lots of useful Xmas vocabulary.
Life events guessing and bluffing
Stages of life vocabulary practice through two guessing games and a lying game for personalised speaking.
Likes and doesn’t like Halloween guessing game
Third person S and negative forms with like and Halloween vocabulary practice with a fun guessing game, including suggested hints.
Next Valentine’s Day future tenses review
Talking about predictions, plans, arrangements and desires with different future forms and love and relationships vocabulary.
Opinions on Xmas and New Year liberal and conservative views discussion
Giving, agreeing with and disagreeing with opinions on end of year and New Year festivities speaking, including seeing if those opinions match your political outlook
Past and present Xmas 'used to' practice
Modern Xmas and traditional Xmas comparisons pairwork for "used to" and "didn't use to" practice, including interesting cultural information.
Phrases for explaining festivals and celebrations challenge
Explaining festivals and celebrations that the other person doesn't know practice, with useful phrases for explaining meanings, origins, customs, etc.
Possessive S Halloween drawing games
Two fun games with students drawing a witch's nose, a zombie's legs, etc, with lots of common Halloween vocabulary.
Present Continuous Christmas mix and match
Making funny and sensible descriptions of Xmas actions with cards games, with easier and more challenging variations.
Reported/Indirect Speech Practice- Festivals and celebrations vocabulary
Typical phrases, names of events, reported speech, reporting verbs and cultural differences practice, starting with a guessing game and with an indirect speech grammar presentation.
Solving Xmas problems will for spontaneous intentions practice
Will for offers and ideas you have just thought of practice through typical issues with the Xmas season to solve, including useful Xmas and New Year vocabulary.
Speaking about festivals and celebrations- gerunds practice
-ing form and names of festivals and celebrations oral practice with sentence stems for students to share opinions and experiences with together.
Talking about festivals and celebrations experiences
Present Perfect and Past Simple oral practice on the topic of what people do during festivals and celebrations like eating special food and staying up all night.
The best Valentine’s Day adjective word order practice
Students discuss, try to remember, work out the rules of and produce different kinds of adjectives before nouns, on the topic of Valentine's Day and relationships.
The best Xmas adjective word order practice
Choosing and arranging the best adjectives with typical Xmas vocabulary, including working out adjective word order rules/ patterns.
There is and there are plus prepositions Halloween drawing
Prepositions and position, with there is/ are and Halloween 'things' vocabulary - collaborative drawing cards activity.
Valentine’s cards there is/ are and prepositions pick and draw
A fun drawing Valentine's Day pictures/ cards activity for prepositions of position and there is/ there are practice.
Valentine’s Day in different places comparing practice
Comparing and contrasting review on the topic of Valentine's Day, with linkers, comparatives, etc.
Valentine’s Day numbers guessing game
How to say numbers and use active and passive voice speaking through a warmer cooler numbers guessing game, including different pronunciations of numbers and love and relationships vocabulary.
Valentine’s Day options regular and irregular plurals practice
Discussing if one or more is better for Valentine's Day, trying to remember the plural forms, then generalising about how to make regular and irregular plurals from singular nouns
Valentine’s Day superlative drawing game
Fun practice of forming and using superlative adjectives through competing to draw the most extreme Valentine's Day goods and experiences, including a grammar presentation of the five different kinds of superlative.
What’s your favourite: Xmas games
Favourites question formation games, including guessing questions and guessing answers, with useful Xmas vocabulary.
Xmas actions with adverbs, challenge game
A fun TPR game to practise adverbs of manner, including lots of useful Xmas vocabulary.
Xmas actions: 'going to' games
Going to for future plans and predictions practice through a TPR game and a describing and guessing game, with useful Xmas vocabulary.
Xmas and New Year extended speaking monologues
Students speak on their own about aspects of the Christmas season, with useful Xmas and New Year vocabulary.
Xmas and New Year traditions comparative quiz
Comparative adjectives with more and -er practice through a fun and simple end of the year festivals trivia quiz, with useful information on cultural differences.
Xmas experiences bluff - Present Perfect practice
A fun have + past participle for experiences and Christmas vocabulary lying game, including nouns and verbs that go together practice
Xmas options irregular plurals practice
Irregular plural nouns speaking and grammar presentation, including discussing the best options for Xmas and useful Xmas vocabulary.
Xmas superlatives drawing competition
Superlative adjectives with most, -est and -iest plus Xmas vocabulary practice with a fun drawing game and an optional grammar presentation.
Xmas things with can and can’t games
Can you for abilities questions on Christmas vocabulary, including testing each other on actions, noises, spelling and pronunciation
Xmas things: 'have' and 'have got' drawing games
'Have' and 'have got' for possession and Xmas vocabulary, pick and draw card game.
Xmas vocabulary relative clauses definitions game
Defining relative clauses for explaining Christmas vocabulary guessing game and grammar presentation, moving onto describing other festivals and celebrations.
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