Visiting New Zealand
ESL Lesson PlansVisiting New Zealand

Visiting New Zealand

This ESL New Zealand lesson plan introduces students to the country’s unique features, using reading, listening and vocabulary exercises to enhance A1 level learners' skills. Designed for adults and teens in a 60-minute individual session, the lesson covers key cultural topics, including New Zealand’s geography, popular activities, and local wildlife.

Skills

  • Can produce simple, mainly isolated phrases about people and places.
  • 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

Read the text about visiting New Zealand.

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Hello! My name is Lily. I want to tell you about New Zealand. New Zealand is a beautiful country. It is very far away. It is in the Pacific Ocean. In New Zealand, people speak English. People love to visit New Zealand because there are many things to do. You can go hiking in the mountains. You can see amazing beaches. There are lots of sheep and birds. The weather is not too hot or too cold. It is perfect for a visit! You can watch rugby games. Rugby is very popular in New Zealand. Visiting New Zealand is fun. You will see many wonderful places and meet nice people. I hope you can visit New Zealand one day!
2

Answer the following questions.

3

Glossary

4

Watch a video about New Zealand and fill in the gaps.

5

Can you tell which sentences from the video are True and which are False?

6

Match these halves to create sentences about New Zealand.

7

Unscramble the words to make questions.

8

Read each sentence and fill in the blank with the correct verb.

9

Let's speak a little bit!

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