All Celebrations / Holidays / Festivals articles – Page 6
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New Year
What do you do on New Year’s Eve? Do you watch fireworks? Do you make a resolution? In this lesson plan, young learners label pictures, circle the correct words to describe their New Year celebrations, and draw and label their favourite New Year’s Eve activity, while practising sentence formation and ...
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Christmas
In this lesson plan, young learners match Christmas words such as ‘mistletoe’ and ‘candles’ to pictures, decorate and describe a Christmas tree, and create their own Advent calendar to count down to Christmas. The activities teach about the holiday’s traditions while consolidating the singular and plural forms of the verb ’be’.
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Summer solstice
In this lesson plan, pupils match sentence halves, number a series of pictures and identify words hidden in a picture to describe the ways people celebrate the longest day of the year. The worksheet includes fun colouring and drawing exercises and helps pupils practise forming sentences and reading aloud.
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ArticleNevruz
A lesson plan to introduce young learners to this festival, celebrated in Turkey and Iran to mark the beginning of spring. Pupils match sentence halves and identify the corresponding picture to learn about the traditions associated with this holiday, from painting eggs to (don’t try this at home) jumping over ...
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ArticleHalloween
Trick or treat! This is a lesson plan to teach pupils about the costumes and traditions associated with this ‘ghoulish’ festival, popular in many English-speaking countries, while reinforcing the present continuous. Pupils solve riddles to guess the Halloween character, draw and describe a Halloween costume, and use patterns to create ...
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Warmer/FillerSpeaking Games: The Christmas Stocking Board Game
Get your students in the Christmas spirit and help them improve their oral fluency with Lindsay Clandfield’s fun & festive board game.
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Live from London: The economy
Onestopenglish visits the Houses of Parliament to find out whether locals and tourists are worried about the world's economic situation.
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Live from London: Art
We went to Trafalgar Square to find out what tourists and visitors of the National Gallery had to say about art.
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Live from London: News
The onestopenglish reporters are back in London, asking locals and visitors questions about their daily lives. We went to Covent Garden and asked people about the news.
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Live from London: Music
The onestopenglish reporters are back in London, asking locals and visitors questions about their daily lives. We went to Covent Garden and asked people about the importance of music in their lives.
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Live from London: New Year
This is the second of our two Live from London 'Christmas specials'. We went to the South Bank and asked people about their resolutions for the new year.
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Live from London: Christmas audio special
This is the first of two 'Christmas special' Live from London podcasts. We went to Covent Garden and asked people the question: "What's a typical Christmas for you?"
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Live from London: Living in London
In this listening lesson we went out in King's Cross, north London to ask people the question: "How do you feel about Living in London?".
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Live from London: Smoking ban
We went to Euston station and asked people what they thought of the new smoking ban in the UK.
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Live from London: Learning English
In this authentic listening podcast, we asked students and teachers what the most difficult thing about learning English is.
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Live from London: Perfect day
We went to Green Park and asked people what they thought was a perfect day out in London.
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Live from London: Sights
We went to the Tate Modern and asked people the question: "What sights have you seen so far in London?".
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Live from London: Breakfast
We went to London's South Bank and asked people the question: "What do you usually have for breakfast?".