Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Festivals and Celebrations

Speaking practice of a wide range of adjectives, including adjective opposites, on the topic of special occasions.

Roleplay business meetings on the topics of Xmas and then other festivals and celebrations like Oktoberfest and New Year, good for business classes around special occasions.

Opinion questions on festivals and celebrations in different countries for Cambridge B2 First Speaking Part Four preparation and speaking practice

Miming actions connected to the festive season, then talking about them with different tenses

Describing changes in what happens at the end of the year, with presentations of the vocabulary and grammar of talking about changes, good for seasonal academic and business English classes.

Glossary of seasonal vocabulary

Religion in modern-day Christmas conversation questions

Green issues related to Xmas conversation questions

Christmas vocabulary practice through restaurant roleplays.

Prepositons in past, present and future time expressions Christmas trivia quiz, making questions to get the answers given.

Negotiating practice for the winter season, with a winner!

Christmas vocabulary and shopping phrases practice, good for travel English in end of year lessons, with useful food and drink vocabulary.

If + Present Simple, will + infinitive to explain good and bad luck around Xmas and New Year

Practising passive voice by making lies for other groups to spot

Practising English numbers and Xmas vocabulary with a guessing game/ quiz

Xmas vocabulary, English numbers and hints with comparative adjectives

Guessing the frequency of common Xmas traditions around the world

Mixed final lines of the famous Xmas carol

Language for describing food practice through setting a Xmas quiz for each other

Xmas mingling speaking activity

Talking about future Xmas and New Year topics

Both meanings of going to practice for seasonal classes

Listening and speaking based on the Xmas carol

Mixed up Xmas song

Practising rhyming words with the famous Xmas song

Words that end in the same sound practice with the famous Xmas song

Guessing how likely descriptions are to be about Xmas in different countries

Words at the end of the line that rhyme Xmas practice

Practising narrative tenses while learning about Xmas

Making predictions about future Christmases to practise Future Simple

Linking present tenses and the festive season with TPR and then personalised speaking

Spotting and changing mistakes in the Xmas poem

Xmas story storytelling task

Speaking practice of telling people about seasonal and special festivals and celebrations from your own and other cultures

Asking and answering object and subject questions about festivals and celebrations speaking, with subject questions grammar presentation and names of important festivals and celebrations.

Describing international festivals and celebrations for passive voice practice

Describing Christmas objects and characters with simple language brainstorming and guessing games.

Using have (got) and doesn't have/ hasn't got in a guessing game and brainstorming descriptions game with Christmas vocabulary

Gradable and ungradable adjectives practice through the topic of seasonal events like Xmas and Halloween, including names of festivals and celebrations, and adverbs with different kinds of adjectives.

Festivals and celebrations vocabulary spelling and pronunciation mistakes related to initial consonant clusters and final consonant clusters.

Countable and uncountable nouns with a lot of, some, not much, not many, a and not any pairwork speaking, including guessing the festival or celebration and comparing experiecnes with their partner

Words which sound similar to festivals vocabulary, with useful phrases for describing traditional and modern celebrations and practice of typical confusions

Letters which are not pronounced in words related to festivals and celebrations in different countries like Xmas, traditional summer festivals, and weddings.

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.

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.

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.

Using hedging language to make soft and strong statements about traditional events, including asking and answering how + adjectives questions

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.

Talking about predictions, plans, arrangements and desires with different future forms and love and relationships vocabulary.

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