Welcome to the customs and traditions section of Busy Teacher. This page is one of many subsections devoted to travel related topics. With 125 worksheets to choose from, this is a great place to start when searching for lesson materials. The British Royal Family, etiquette, and cultural differences are a few of the topics you can expect to find here. This worksheet about stereotypes is popular with ESL teachers. It was designed to help elementary and intermediate learners discuss a variety of European stereotypes. There are a number of exercises to get students thinking and speaking about the topic. Since the worksheet is quite long, consider including just a few of the sections and feel free to customize it for your students. Be sure to read through the worksheet carefully before making copies. This is just one of the free, printable worksheets available. If it is not appropriate for your students, considering using one of the others posted on this page or combine ideas from different worksheets to create your own.
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This presentation contains mainly pictures associated with celebrating Christmas in the UK. It introduces students to the concept of advent, Christmas carols and Christmas food. I would then sugge ...
This powerpoint presentation contains a true/false activity on Halloween customs, as well as questions on a video clip from ET, the film directed by Steven Spielberg. My students really enjoyed th ...
A relatively detailed presentation that introduces students to Arthur Conan Doyle and the stories of Sherlock Holmes. Contains background information about the author, context, genre, main charact ...
Here is a worksheet I created for my intermediate classes to make a comparison between my country (Italy) and Ireland, with details about politics, population, culture, geography. Then you can let ...
This worksheet accompanies a video lesson "Dos and Don`ts in Germany". It has 3 parts with questions to discuss before and after watching a video.The main part is a matching activity to help s ...
This presentation is based on students' research on the topic"Different Cultures". It is a multiple-choice quiz questions about their knowledge of traditions in different countries.It can be used ...
This worksheet is about Easter. In exercise 1 students have to match the words and the pictures, in exercise 2 they have to find a message and in exercise 3 they have to complete a text about an E ...
An Easter lesson for upper-primary students at roughly elementary or pre-intermediate level on the topic of Easter eggs. Includes a vocabulary input exercise and some reading, ending in a pronunci ...
This worksheet can be used to find out how much your students know about the country America. There are 11 mixed questions that students must answer including true or false, circle the correct ans ...
This worksheet can be used to find out how much your students know about the country Germany. There are 11 mixed questions that students must answer including true or false, circle the correct ans ...
This worksheet can be used to find out how much your students know about the country Spain. There are 11 mixed questions that students must answer including true or false, circle the correct answe ...
Students are asked to match some pictures with some words related to St Patrick’s Day, find some other words in the wordsearch, and complete the text about this holiday. The worksheet can be ...
In this power point presentation students can see different carnival costumes. They have to look at the pictures and choose the correct option. Some of the most popular carnival costumes can be se ...
This worksheet is based on the video about neck stretching in some Asian and African tribes. I used it to speak about the differences in the concept of beauty around the world. There are three ta ...
It is Carnival time.This worksheet is about Carnival. Ten children are going to a fancy-dress party. Students have to look at the pictures and choose the correct answer. They have to complete some ...
This is an excellent listening exercise for upper-intermediate. They will enjoy a 2.45 minutes talk by Sheena Lyengar on her book: The Art of Choosing. The choice of words, entertaining speech, an ...
This is a reading activity that I have prepared for my pre-intermediate students. It contains two pages: the first one has a semi-authentic article from The Guardian (I have made a few changes in ...
Chinese New Year resource -all of the words included in this worksheet are associated with Chinese New Year. Students are asked to look at the words and write them in alphabetical order. This Chin ...
This set of 20 flashcards can be used when teaching students about Chinese New Year. They can be printed onto card or paper and laminated. A matching game can be played by printing off two sets of ...
All of the words that are hidden in the grid are associated with the celebration Burns Night. There are 15 words for students to find. This word search can be used as an extra resource when teachi ...
Acrostic poem - Burns Night. Students are asked to write an acrostic poem about Burns Night. Start each line with a word or phrase that starts with the letter on that line. This resource can be us ...
I'd just like to give you the link to the video above as a starting point / teaching idea about the origins of 27 different winter holiday traditions by Mental Floss. You can watch it one number a ...
This is an "interviewing game" that accompanies the elementary English textbook for 6th graders in Japan called "Hi Friends 2". The pictures used are the same as the ones in the textbook which de ...
I teach a class of Japanese adults who love everything about Hawaii, so I put together these two pages to teach them how Christmas is different in Hawaii than the "mainland". Most of the students ...
Ally McBeal works in a law firm in Boston. This time they have to deal with a case where a TV commentator tells children the truth about Santa Claus. Collect Christmas-related vocabulary beforehan ...
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