People all around the world celebrate the New Year differently so here at Busy Teacher, there are 41 worksheets to help you talk about this topic in your classes. This New Year worksheet will help structure a writing activity. Students should write down their New Year’s resolutions. You might want to save this for the end of your New Year’s class or for homework so that students have plenty of time to think about their answers. While the graphics on this worksheet may seem a little childish, the content is appropriate for every ESL student because students can adapt their answers to be as simple or complex as their ability allows. You might even want to consider sharing some of the resolutions about the classroom (anonymously of course) and creating a list of class resolutions. Additionally, you can share some of your own resolutions; this might make students feel more comfortable about sharing their ideas with you. This is one of the many worksheets available so if you are looking for something else, check out the rest of this page and download the ones that seem the most interesting.
The New Year is the day that marks the beginning of a new calendar year, and is the day on which the year count of the specific calendar used is incremented. For many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner. The New Year of the Gregorian calendar, today in worldwide use, falls on 1 January, continuing the practice of the Roman calendar. There are numerous calendars that remain in regional use that calculate the New Year differently. The order of months in the Roman calendar has been January to December since King Numa Pompilius in about 700 BC, according to Plutarch and Macrobius. According to the Christian tradition, 1 January is the day of the circumcision of Jesus (on the eighth day of his birth), when the name of Jesus was given to him (Luke 2:21). Since then, 1 January has been the first day of the year, except during the Middle Ages when several other days were the first (1 March, 25 March, Easter, 1 September, 25 December).
New Year's Resolutions Using "Will"
This three-page worksheet explains the tradition of making New Year's resolutions. It also introduces the grammatical structure for making promising using "will". There are plenty of examples and ...
Happy New Year: Gerund or Infinitive
This is my first worksheet to share. It is a review/ lesson for infinitive/gerund use. The students will first see the use of various verbs followed by either gerund or infinitive in the context o ...
Movie Worksheet: New Year's Eve
A worksheet that goes with the movie 'New Year's Eve' from 2012. The worksheet includes a little bit of prediction based on the actors, some vocabulary to review together and only 3 comprehension ...
A New Year Letter [Correct the mistakes]
This is an actual worksheet for developing reading and writing skills. Students are to read and correct the mistakes. It helps to teach children to be honest, kind and attentive to people. It is v ...
Cartoon Worksheet: Merry Madagascar
Have fun with your students before the New Year and Christmas! Good idea for listening + watching. This is the ready handout for teachers, made on the famous cartoon Merry Madagascar. You can use ...
How Many Words Can You Write With These Letters?
Students create new words using the letters in "Happy New Year". There are seven columns for them to complete (words with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and six letters). The words can be from different categorie ...
Song Worksheet: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
This is a song activity for Christmas. Children's favourite "Santa Claus is coming to town" with a few missing words for children to try and find. It doesn't matter if they find every word, they s ...
The Story of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
Ask students to look at the pictures and the word under them. Make sure they understand the meaning of each word before starting to read the text. Explain that they are going to read the story of ...
The Names of Santa's Reindeer
Ask students to look at each of the eight pictures showing a reindeer that has one of its body parts missing (left/right eye, left/right antler, etc...). Tell them to read sentences 1-8 to find ou ...
Festivals
Slovak ppt about festivals, which can be used on English, it contains wordsearch and crossword about festivals.Students will learn about holidays and festivals in Great Britain, new vocabulary abo ...
Gary's New Year Resolutions [For French Speakers]
Very Funny video from youtube! Listening comprehension & video watching Discussing New Year Resolutions & health matters! Anticipation, gap filling exercise, comprehension, vocabulary word ...
Spot The Differences
Find the difference in the two pictures of Frosty, the snowman, taken this winter. Complete the sentences with the given vocabulary. Students read the statement, find the corresponding information ...
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