Thankful Hearts
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Thankful Hearts

This ESL lesson plan celebrates Thanksgiving with engaging reading and speaking activities focused on gratitude. Students will explore holiday vocabulary, match sentence endings, and discuss traditions in a group setting. The lesson includes a fun "thankful chain" activity to foster conversation skills and encourage sharing personal reflections. Perfect for A2 learners, it combines cultural insights with practical language exercises.

Skills

  • Can identify specific information in simpler written material he / she encounters, such as letters, brochures and short newspaper articles describing events.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Warm-up

Pick the words related to Thanksgiving. Compare your answers in pairs. If you don't know some words, check the glossary. Then, check your answers with your teacher.
spooky decorations to decorate the tree cranberry sauce to write a letter to Santa to cook a turkey costume party gingerbread cookies to sing carols to be thankful to watch parade trick or treat mashed potatoes to watch a football game on TV gingerbread cookies
2

Glossary

3

Read Gabriela's story about her first Thanksgiving in the US. What did she like about it?

4

Find the information in the text and share it with the rest of the group. Then discuss the questions.

5

Find the right ending for each sentence.

6

Make a thankful chain.

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