- Levels: A2B1
- Lesson Types: Lesson Plans
- Recommended for: Balanced TeachingDownload and Go
- Themes: General Lesson Plans
🕑 30-45 minutes
🎚 A2, B1
🎯 expressing positive, neutral, and negative experiences
🕑 0-5 minutes
– Print one worksheet for each student.
– Print the Teacher’s Insights or keep them at hand as they contain helpful notes for the exercises.
Introduction: Read about a world-famous festival
Vocabulary Builder: Match pictures to vocabulary
Expression: Learn to express positive, neutral, and negative experiences
Speaking: Students describe experiences and their classmates guess what experience they had
So many festivals: Holi, India; Día de los Muertos, Mexico; St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland; Carnival, Venice… Have you ever been? Did you have a good time? What made that festival unique?
Detailed Description
This ESL lesson plan for lower-level intermediate students (adaptable) is designed to help students from A2 to B2 to get speaking. Even if they make a lot of mistakes, the aim is to learn a few ways to say “I had a great/okay/horrible time” and then ask students to talk about different festivals that they have been to, playing a guessing game where they describe a festival and others have to guess which one it is.
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