Teaching Celebrations in ESL Classes
Integrate cultural awareness into your ESL classroom with photocopiable materials and teaching tips to use the topic of seasonal celebrations to help teach all kinds of language. These resources help students understand, describe and discuss various aspects of festivals and celebrations through vocabulary exercises, games, speaking activities and more.
Follow the links below to browse our photocopiable lesson plans and teaching tips.
Christmas and New Year
Engage learners with Christmas-themed content that ties into your syllabus. These activities are crafted to combine the joy of the holidays with educational outcomes, making learning both fun and effective.
Other Festivals and Celebrations
Engage your students in learning festival and celebrations vocabulary, finding out about other cultures, better describing their festivals and celebrations, and practising other language through this topic.
- Cambridge First Speaking Part Four on festivals and celebrations
- Describing festivals with passive voice
- Festivals and celebrations vocabulary and speaking
- Vocabulary for describing festivals and celebrations challenge
- Phrases for explaining festivals and celebrations challenge
- Business meetings on festivals and celebrations (in this 'Teaching Meetings' e-book)
- Speaking about festivals and celebrations (-ing form speaking)
- Discussing celebrations with gradable and extreme adjectives (gradable and ungradable adjectives practice)
- Describing festivals and celebrations subject questions practice (question formation practice)
- What people say at important events (including reporting verbs/ reported speech)
- Telephoning on festivals and celebrations (practicing telephoning phrases with seasonal vocabulary and situations)
- Business meetings on festivals and celebrations (starting with discussion of office rules around Xmas)