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Everyone loves holidays and celebrations so talk about them with your students using one of the 1,667 worksheets in this section. There are a wide variety of topics to choose from and they are even sorted into different categories so that you can find what you are looking for more easily. This holiday worksheet is a popular one with busy teachers. It has over twenty pages of Christmas activities for your elementary classes and while some activities may only be appropriate for young students, there are others that would be suitable for learners of any age. You can also find the lyrics for all the most popular Christmas carols in this booklet. If Christmas is not the holiday you are concerned about right now, check out some other worksheets now and come back here when the time is right.
Holiday lessons are some of the most fun both for students and teachers. They offer a nice break from the usual study material and encourage everyone to have fun. Teachers often make holiday lessons exceptionally easy but you should try to find a balance between having fun and learning English. You can use a holiday as a theme for a lesson on material from the textbook or even just challenge your students with the types of activities you choose to include in your lessons. Holidays on their own are not always enough to engage students so be sure to keep your students in mind when planning your lessons.

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How Good Is Your Vocabulary?

How Good Is Your Vocabulary?

Arlindo Marco Fialho
  This ESL activity consists of 20 multiple-choice questions designed for students planning to take ESL exams such as FCE, CAE, IELTS, TOEFL, and TOEIC. It's a productive exercise to help ...
1 Views 4,663 AdvExam
Comic Strips

Comic Strips

Hertin Riantini
  A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. ...
1 Views 25,171 Elem
Reading comprehension - Welcome Back to School

Reading comprehension - Welcome Back to School

  The first day back to school is just around the corner! This back-to-school poem will make your child's transition that little bit easier. Students read the poem and then answer the ques ...
2 Views 18,563 Elem
An ESL Lesson Plan On Articles: General vs. Specific

An ESL Lesson Plan On Articles: General vs. Specific

Nathan Martin
  This lesson is for students at a pre-Intermediate level, who have mastered the basic language skills and are familiar with plural nouns, a/an, frequency, and time. Before starting thi ...
1 Views 10,447 Pre-Int
Watch & Listen To A Brief History Of America's Independence

Watch & Listen To A Brief History Of America's Independence

     With this worksheet, students will practice their listening skills while learning about the historical events surrounding the creation of the USA. The video is in two parts ...
1 Views 13,392 Pre-IntInt
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Future In The Past: What People In The Past Thought

Future In The Past: What People In The Past Thought

CrisBS
  This PowerPoint shows pictures made by people in the early 1950s and 1940s portraying how they thought the future might be. It's good to practice "They thought that we would be able to f ...
1 Views 13,332 IntAdvExam
ESL Pals – In the Ocean

ESL Pals – In the Ocean

ESL Pals
    The subject of this ESL lesson is animals in the ocean. It covers the grammar topic of comparatives and superlatives. It teaches new words and how to form superlatives. It includ ...
1 Views 7,088 BegElem
April Fool's Day Pranks

April Fool's Day Pranks

Jeff Genet
  This comprehensive ESL lesson on April Fool's day begins with some warm-up questions and a vocabulary-matching exercise. Students watch a YouTube video, then answer some listening compre ...
1 Views 8,273 All
St. Patrick's Day: What's a Leprechaun?

St. Patrick's Day: What's a Leprechaun?

Jeff Genet
  Learn more about St. Patrick's Day with this video and visual-aids-based lesson on St. Patrick's Day and Leprechauns. It builds vocabulary includes listening and discussion questions, id ...
1 Views 11,661 All
St. Patrick's Day Customs

St. Patrick's Day Customs

Jeff Genet
  A video and visual-aids-based lesson on St.Patrick's Day customs. Vocabulary builder, discussion questions, idioms, listening questions, and fill-in-the-gaps exercise. Students listen to ...
1 Views 8,015 All
The History of Valentine’s Day

The History of Valentine’s Day

Anastasiia
  This worksheet helps students to develop listening comprehension. It includes vocabulary focus, listening for general comprehension, and details based on the short videos. Students learn ...
1 Views 9,638 IntAdv
Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

Jeff Genet
  This fun video is about Valentine's Day culture and is a comparison between American and Japanese customs. It includes vocabulary building exercises, discussion, critical thinking, liste ...
1 Views 9,499 All
Valentine's Day Alphabetical Order

Valentine's Day Alphabetical Order

  Valentine's Day worksheet - This educational worksheet can be used for Valentine's Day and asks students to put all of the words in alphabetical order.  It helps improve vocabulary ...
1 Views 7,459 Elem
Valentine's Day Romance

Valentine's Day Romance

Jeff Genet
  This fun resource about Valentine's Day and Romance includes vocabulary building exercises, discussion questions, listening comprehension, and storytelling exercises with illustrations. ...
1 Views 6,954 All
BUILDING STABILITY Gapfill-Answers

BUILDING STABILITY Gapfill-Answers

Eva MULLAGHY
  This comprehension worksheet is particularly suited to Engineer or Architect students. It is a challenging listening exercise as some of the engineers speak rapidly. The gap-fill focuses ...
1 Views 5,214 IntAdv
Unique New Traditions

Unique New Traditions

Eva MULLAGHY
Use this worksheet/listening activity to kick off the New Year. It combines discussion with the discovery of some interesting New Year traditions. Students listen to a news item on unique New ...
1 Views 8,738 Pre-IntIntAdv
Sunset Worksheet

Sunset Worksheet

This worksheet is about ´Sunset.´ It contains a video, a poem, and seven exercises, including Find the answers, Fill in the missing words, Complete the words, and Match the picture ...
1 Views 9,941 ElemPre-Int
New Year's Resolutions

New Year's Resolutions

Pocket Jeff
This animated video is ideal for expanding students' vocabulary and expressions when speaking about New Year's and New Year's resolutions. This short resource helps contextualize vocabulary an ...
1 Views 11,253 BegElemPre-IntInt
New Year's Traditions

New Year's Traditions

Jeff Genet
  This lesson teaches English through culture. It is linked to a YouTube video that speaks about New Year's traditions around the world. Perfect for vocabulary building, it provides visual ...
1 Views 9,148 All
ESL Activity Sheet For Children – Winter Vocabulary

ESL Activity Sheet For Children – Winter Vocabulary

Ellie @ Osito ESL
    This ESL Activity Sheet for children provides 12 picture cards to help teach/revise winter vocabulary. The pictures can be used to make flashcards, bingo boards, or simple games ...
1 Views 15,438 BegElem
Boxing Day

Boxing Day

Jeff Genet
  Learn about the holiday Boxing Day. This lesson is linked to a fun, animated YouTube video that explains the origins and customs of the holiday. It's a great way for teaching cross-cultu ...
1 Views 7,302 All
Christmas Dinner

Christmas Dinner

Jeff Genet
  This lesson includes a link to a fun, animated video on YouTube that talks about Christmas dinner and popular food eaten in some countries around the world during this holiday season. Vi ...
1 Views 10,424 All
Christmas is All Around Us: Billy Mack

Christmas is All Around Us: Billy Mack

  This Christmas song by Billy Mack from the romantic film "Love Actually" forms the basis of this worksheet aimed at comprehension and listening skills. It provides an excellent warm-up f ...
1 Views 11,925 ElemPre-Int
The History of Christmas Decorations

The History of Christmas Decorations

Anastasiia
The video-based worksheet helps pre-Intermediate students to explore traditional US Christmas decorations. The tasks rely on images and matching strategies. The video-based assignments aim to ...
1 Views 10,490 Pre-IntInt
Christmas Elves — Color The Pictures

Christmas Elves — Color The Pictures

Karina
  On this simple worksheet, young learners color the toys and learn about Christmas and the elves. This worksheet is helpful to develop vocabulary skills.
1 Views 5,606 Elem

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