A Festive Mood
ESL Lesson PlansA Festive Mood

A Festive Mood

This ESL lesson plan for B2-level adults focuses on listening, speaking, and reading skills in an individual learning format. Students explore Easter traditions in English-speaking countries through video discussions, text analysis, and vocabulary exercises. Activities include identifying cultural differences, learning idiomatic expressions, and reflecting on personal and cultural Easter practices. Perfect for enhancing cultural awareness and English proficiency through engaging holiday-themed activities!

Skills

  • The student can explain features of his/her own culture to members of another culture or explain features of the other culture to members of his/her own culture.
  • The student is aware of, and looks out for signs of, the most significant differences between the customs, usages, attitudes, values and beliefs prevalent in the community concerned and those of his or her own community.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Below are some headlines from a local English newspaper. What word do you think is missing?

1
Chocolate Sales Soar as ______ Approaches
2
______ Bunny Brings Joy to Children in Hospital
3
______ Sales: The Best Deals for Your Spring Shopping Needs
4
Kids Learn to Dye Eggs in ________ Workshop
Your answer:
2

Look at the pictures. What do you see?

3

Answer the questions.

4

Watch this video and say what US / Canadian Easter traditions the speakers mention.

5

After watching the video, discuss the following question.

6

Read the text below. What is Easter's origin and meaning? What traditional foods and events celebrate the holiday?

7

Choose the correct option according to the text.

8

We don't talk about Easter every day, but there are idioms and phrases connected to religion and religious holidays that we do use daily. Let's match them.

9

Fill in these short dialogues with the idioms and phrases from the previous exercise.

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