Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Festivals and Celebrations

Explaining festivals and celebrations that the other person doesn't know practice, with useful phrases for explaining meanings, origins, customs, etc.

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.

-ing form and names of festivals and celebrations oral practice with sentence stems for students to share opinions and experiences with together.

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.

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.

Choosing and arranging the best adjectives with typical Xmas vocabulary, including working out adjective word order rules/ patterns.

A fun drawing Valentine's Day pictures/ cards activity for prepositions of position and there is/ there are practice.

Comparing and contrasting review on the topic of Valentine's Day, with linkers, comparatives, etc.

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.

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

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.

Irregular plural nouns speaking and grammar presentation, including discussing the best options for Xmas and useful Xmas vocabulary.

Can you for abilities questions on Christmas vocabulary, including testing each other on actions, noises, spelling and pronunciation

Defining relative clauses for explaining Christmas vocabulary guessing game and grammar presentation, moving onto describing other festivals and celebrations.