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ESL Lesson Plan: Christmas: Best And Worst Aspects

Christmas: Best And Worst Aspects

Lesson Overview

This ESL advanced Christmas lesson plan begins with a fun warmer. Next, there are a series of Christmas questions to get your students’ festive spirits high! Afterwards, an intriguing video is analysed through a series of exercises and discussion questions. This is followed by a study of Christmas idioms. 

ESL students are presented with a…

This ESL advanced Christmas lesson plan begins with a fun warmer. Next, there are a series of Christmas questions to get your students’ festive spirits high! Afterwards, an intriguing video is analysed through a series of exercises and discussion questions. This is followed by a study of Christmas idioms. 

ESL students are presented with a challenging article which details gifts not to buy for Christmas before being treated to a Christmas phrasal verbs task. The lesson finishes with two super fun games which are related to the topic of the class. 

Activity Layout

  1. Warm up task.
  2. Discussion questions.
  3. Video analysis. 
  4. Christmas idioms. 
  5. Article.  
  6. Phrasal verbs.
  7. Riddles.
  8. Would you rather? 

Homework

There is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome ESL advanced Christmas lesson plan. Students are challenged to watch an interesting video before being asked to write answers to challenging questions. There is a detailed ESL idioms task which is a continuation of the in-class activity. 

Exercises:

  1. Watch the video. 
  2. Writing task. 
  3. Christmas idioms. 

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