It Was a Blast! (Free)

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Exercise Summary

🕑 30-45 minutes
🎚    A2, B1
🎯 expressing positive, neutral, and negative experiences

 

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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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Introduction to Phrasal Verbs: Students learn what phrasal verbs are and how they are formed. They then practise come of the most common examples.

Homophones vs Minimal Pairs: Students focus on pronunciation, and are challenged to decide whether certain pairs of words are the same (homophones) or slightly different (minimal pairs).

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