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ESL Lesson Plan: The New Year

The New Year

Lesson Overview

This amazing ESL Beginner New Year lesson plan starts with a fun warm up where students play would you rather. Then, students move on to vocabulary about New Year’s Eve. Thereafter, students need to complete a grammar exercise about verbs. Students complete many exercises to practice the grammar point and vocabulary of the lesson.

Next, students…

This amazing ESL Beginner New Year lesson plan starts with a fun warm up where students play would you rather. Then, students move on to vocabulary about New Year’s Eve. Thereafter, students need to complete a grammar exercise about verbs. Students complete many exercises to practice the grammar point and vocabulary of the lesson.

Next, students complete a reading where they review the words that they have learned. This is followed by a set of discussion questions that students can use to practice their free talk. We are certain that you and your students will find this ESL Beginner New Year lesson useful! This lesson is set at an A2 level and covers very basic grammar topics. Use this lesson as part of the foundation for a student starting out in English.

Activity Layout

  1. Warm up: would you rather?
  2. Vocabulary and exercises
  3. Grammar: the verb want
  4. Reading
  5. Speaking exercise: describe the pictures
  6. Discussion questions

Homework

This ESL Beginner New Year lesson plan also includes two homework exercises. Students complete a writing exercise to practice the vocabulary they have learned in the lesson. 

  1. Homework: writing exercises

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