Harvest Holidays
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Harvest Holidays

This Harvest Holidays ESL lesson is designed for A2/B1-level kids and teens to explore how different cultures celebrate the autumn harvest. Students read about festivals such as Thanksgiving, Pongal, Chuseok, Mabon, Sukkot, and the Mid-Autumn Festival, learning how people show gratitude and appreciate nature’s gifts. The worksheet includes reading comprehension, vocabulary matching, and creative group activities where learners invent their own harvest celebration. Fun and educational, this lesson helps students build vocabulary, improve reading skills, and discover global holiday traditions.

Skills

  • Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to their field of interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension.
  • Can collaborate on a shared task, e.g. formulating and responding to suggestions, asking whether people agree, and proposing alternative approaches.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Warm-up: answer the questions

Which holidays do you celebrate in autumn in your country or culture? What do you usually do on these days?
Your answer:
2

Read the text about harvest holidays in different cultures and try to guess the name of each celebration.

3

Match the words and phrases to the definitions.

4

Read the text again and choose the right answer to each question.

5

Invent your own festival.

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