Carnivals around the world
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Carnivals around the world

This engaging ESL lesson plan explores carnivals around the world through reading, speaking, and writing activities designed for C1-level adult learners. Students will analyze headlines, discuss traditions, read a news article, complete quizzes, and participate in creative exercises like descriptive storytelling. The lesson balances group interaction with skill-building tasks, ensuring a dynamic and immersive learning experience.

Skills

  • Can understand in detail lengthy, complex texts, whether or not they relate to his/her own area of speciality, provided he/she can reread difficult sections.
  • Can write clear, detailed, well-structured and developed descriptions and imaginative texts in an assured, personal, natural style appropriate to the reader in mind.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Look at these subheadings. They were all taken from the same news article. What are they about?

- A $1 billion party - well, almost! - The comeback kid - No hiding the cost of a high-end mask Bombarded by beads - Egging people on - Flour power - Gotta go to Goa - With a little help from your friends
  - Puppet show - And the band played on
2

Work in pairs. Ask your partner these questions. Take notes. Then share your peer's ideas with the class.

3

Read the extract from a news article about Carnivals. What was the most shocking information to you?

4

Mark the statements as true or false.

5

Match the halves of the phrases. Find them in the text and check your answers.

6

Let's play a game. Split into teams and do the quiz. Use your logic and background knowledge to answer the questions! The team that gets the most points wins.

7

Imagine you attended a Carnival. Describe what you saw, what you were wearing, what you were doing. Use your notes. Don't name the Carnival, let the group guess. Use the text below as an example.

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