International Day of Friendship
ESL Lesson PlansInternational Day of Friendship

International Day of Friendship

This ESL lesson plan focuses on the International Day of Friendship for kids and teens at the A1 level. In this 60-minute group lesson, students will practice reading, vocabulary, and speaking skills through engaging activities like sentence unscrambling, text analysis, and discussions on the value of friendship. The lesson encourages learners to reflect on meaningful relationships while building confidence in expressing ideas in simple, conversational English.

Skills

  • Can understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Unscramble the words to make sentences about friends.

1
is
friend
My
Mary
kind.
2
homework.
helps
me
She
with
3
is
My
friend
funny.
Luca
4
with
plays
He
games
me.
2

Read the text about the International Day of Friendship.

3

Glossary

4

Decide if the sentences about the text are True or False.

5

Read the text again and answer the following questions.

6

Fill in the blanks to complete the sentences from the text.

7

Let's talk about friends and friendship.

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