Winter or Summer Person?
ESL Lesson PlansWinter or Summer Person?

Winter or Summer Person?

This ESL lesson plan explores seasonal preferences in a 60-minute individual session focusing on speaking skills. Through reading exercises and engaging conversation prompts, students will use comparative language to express preferences and reflect on activities associated with winter and summer. The lesson includes a fun quiz to determine if they are a "winter person" or "summer person," enhancing vocabulary and A2-level speaking skills.

Skills

  • Can explain what she likes or dislikes about something, why he/she prefers one thing to another, making simple, direct comparisons.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
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Say what you prefer by answering the following questions.

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Wearing a T-shirt or a jacket?
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Having salad or soup?
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Drinking hot chocolate or lemonade?
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Build a sandcastle or a snowman?
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Being outdoors or indoors?
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Fill in the blanks in the conversation.

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Match these words to their definitions.

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Read the text to find out if Anna, Ben, and Clara are summer or winter people.

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Answer the following questions.

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Match the halves to create sentences.

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Your turn! Take the quiz and find out if you are a summer or a winter person.

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Quiz results

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