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 worksheet was created for a traditions unit. I wanted my students to have an organizer to work with while doing partner work. For my activity, students would think about their own tradition ...
This worksheet includes gist and detailed listening questions related to a YouTube video about Bonfire Night (or Guy Fawke's Night). This is a British holiday which is celebrated on November 5th. ...
This colourful and informative presentation is devoted to the most historically important British Holidays. It is for intermediate and upper-intermediate students. The material is organised so tha ...
This is a very interesting text about how some of the today's popular customs, proverbs and everyday expressions came into being. The worksheet starts with a speaking warm-up, followed by the main ...
This is a short, easy and fun listening comprehension. I only transcribed :=) I used it last year with my class (age: 12, level A2.1 CEFR) and they enjoyed reading and listening. For higher level ...
This 150-word paragraph introduces the custom/tradition of Halloween. There are 12 missing words; learners can choose from the vocabulary on the left. Intermediate-level. With Answer Key. Your ...
This worksheet is an introduction to tea in Britain. I used 2 different sources from the BBC Learning English website to make it. The first section (listening and questions) uses the audio found ...
A very simple movie activity for elementary students. Give students a photocopy and ask them the questions on it. Play the first minutes of the video and elicit the answers from them. Provide fe ...
This vocabulary may be useful for your students when they need to talk about their birthday parties and also students will use some verbs for celebrations. The power point presentation will contai ...
Simple bingo game, designed for beginner students, and would work with children or adults. Nice addition to a cultural lesson (although the images are somewhat stereotypical, I still think they're ...
This is an activity I designed for pre-teaching some vocabulary from the text "Eye Contact". The text is found in the textbook Cambridge English for Business Communication (Professional English se ...
This worksheet contains a story and a set of pictures that can be used in a Christmas lesson. There is also a lesson plan suggesting how the story can be applied. The lesson is to practise listeni ...
A power point with famous people from all over the world to teach about countries and nationalities. The teacher can use it to review the names of the countries and the nationalities of people who ...
A ready-to-use article about the courses of the day in a central European country, the Czech Republic. New vocabulary is highlighted and listed on the right. There is a follow-up of four basic con ...
This is a set of cards organised by countries (Italy, France, Kenya, Russia, etc.). On the card there are pictures which represent the country's cuisine and some tradition, typically associated wi ...
This powerpoint presentation aims to introduce St Patrick's Day to students. It presents some basic information about the festival and illustrates the Irish symbols with nice pictures. Students ge ...
There are 10 weird New Year superstitions descriptions with pictures. Give the pictures to the students first and let them guess (make their own) superstitions. Then give them true stories random ...
What comes to your mind when you think about a gift? Do you think of getting or giving? In the worksheet there are famous quotes about gift giving. Can be a good warm-up exercise to discuss those ...
Cut the pictures and give them to the students. Let them think why this can be a bad gift and in what country this superstition exists. Then cut the stripes with "action - result" information and ...
How to use a worksheet: 1) general discussion (What is a subculture? Do you believe one should differ from the others to be unique? How are the members of subcultures different? etc.) 2) matching ...
We often talk about celebrations and holidays to our students, but we rarely discuss gift giving which is a great part of any holiday season. This worksheet contains 11 common gift giving mistake ...
This is a multiple choice quiz on the traditions of giving and receiving presents in different countries. It contains 8 questions with 4 possible answers to each (only 1 is correct!) Answers inclu ...
A simplified and blank family tree designed to teach students about family relationships such as Mother, Father, Uncle, Aunt, Son Daughter, Cousin, Grandmother, Grandfather, Granddaughter, Grandso ...
A Christmas tradition in the West is to kiss under a bunch of Mistletoe which is the plant that grows as a parasite on trees such as poplars. It is a symbol of fertility in Paganism and is one of ...
it is just a poster which represents some information about the pagan origins of the days of the week. You can just pin it to the desk or the wall (if it is possible) so that your ss could learn a ...
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