Lunar New Year
ESL Lesson PlansLunar New Year

Lunar New Year

This ESL lesson plan is designed for B1-B2 learners in a group setting and focuses on developing listening and speaking skills. The lesson includes interactive tasks such as group discussions, fact-checking, watching a video, and creating dialogues about Lunar New Year traditions. Activities encourage students to practice cultural understanding through engaging exercises like guessing games, multiple-choice questions, and role-play scenarios. Perfect for kids and teens!

Skills

  • Can understand the information content of the majority of recorded or broadcast material on topics of personal interest delivered in clear standard language.
  • Can reasonably fluently sustain a straightforward description of one of a variety of subjects within their field of interest, presenting it as a linear sequence of points.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

In pairs, discuss the following questions.

1
How do you usually celebrate New Year in your culture?
2
What is your favorite holiday tradition, and why?
3
Do you think it's important to celebrate cultural festivals? Why or why not?
4
Have you ever participated in a celebration from another culture? What was it like?
2

Read these facts about the Lunar New Year, a celebration observed in Asian cultures. In small groups, discuss which ones you think are true and why.

3

Watch the video about Lunar New Year. Were your guesses right or wrong?

4

Answer the following questions.

5

Make sentences from these words.

6

Work in pairs. Choose one of the following scenarios and prepare a dialogue: