A selection of English ESL festival printables

Students must fill in the missing letters of the Carnival vocabulary words: masks, prize, dance, music, float, etc. Then students must fill in the blanks in the sentences provided with the correct Carnival word. This activity can be used with my matching YouTube video: https://youtu.be/cmR5I16ZVSo


The video shows pictures of the objects/words after the answer is revealed and includes a review section. You may want to teach the students these words before playing this game if they have a lower level of English.


A teacher guide and the answer key is provided on the second page.

CARNIVAL Vocabulary + Fill-in-the-Blanks Sentences (with Video Activity)

This is an easy reading exercise. Students read a passage about a festival and write suitable questions for the statements given below.  Easy vocabulary. A2 level activity.

Easy reading - Junkanoo

Battleship for practicing "Look at~" and "It looks~". It's themed for Japanese festivals but I think the format is easily adaptable to any topic/two grammar points. 

Battleship

Intermediate reading lesson about how the Eurovision 2025 Song Contest. Includes article, reading quiz that tests critical thinking, prompts for speaking and writing, and an answer key. https://eslfrog.com/eurovision-2025/

Eurovision 2025 - Reading Lesson

Add to your vocabulary. Arrange the jumbled letters to form words that have relation with Dewali (an Indian festival)

Dewali Vocabulary

Ss read about the celebration and answer questions. Then they name pictures with vocabulary from the text. Finally, they listen to 5 oldies and match with songs

Reading about Nostalgia Night - a Uruguayan Celebration

This is a worksheet that children can use for practicing counting from 1-20. It displays things we use or do on the festival of Diwali. Children can learn about the culture along with counting.

Counting 1-20 (Diwali)

Reading activity worksheet with vocabulary practice and question formation. For elementary level students. Topic: Holidays and festivals, celebrating Mother\'s Day

Mother\'s Day

Mnoho Slovákov rado objavuje susedné krajiny, kde sa môžu ponoriť do bohatej histórie a vychutnať si atmosféru starobylých miest. Praha, známa svojou gotickou architektúrou a Karlovým mostom, patrí medzi najobľúbenejšie destinácie. Okrem kultúrnych zážitkov sú pre návštevníkov zaujímavé aj rôzne formy zábavy, pričom ceske kasina pre slovakov ponúkajú priestor na oddych a zábavu.

Slovenskí turisti často navštevujú Česko nielen pre krásne pamiatky, ale aj kvôli gastronomickým zážitkom https://zahranicnekasinapreslovakov.com/ceske-casino-pre-slovenskych-hracov . Tradičné české jedlá, ako je sviečková na smotane alebo vepřo knedlo zelo, sú obľúbené medzi návštevníkmi zo Slovenska. K dobrému jedlu patrí aj výborné pivo, ktoré má v Česku dlhú tradíciu a vysokú kvalitu. Niektorí turisti si popri degustácii miestnych špecialít doprajú aj iné formy relaxu – napríklad ceske kasina pre slovakov, ktoré sú pre mnohých atraktívnym spestrením večera.

Stredná Európa ponúka mnoho možností na trávenie voľného času, od turistiky v Tatrách až po návštevu významných kultúrnych podujatí. Koncerty, divadelné predstavenia a festivaly sú veľkou súčasťou miestneho života, pričom do týchto podujatí sa zapájajú aj zahraniční umelci. Nie je nič neobvyklé, že pri prechádzke historickým centrom Bratislavy alebo Brna narazíte na pouličných hudobníkov, ktorí dotvárajú autentickú atmosféru mesta. V rámci nočného života sú populárne bary, kluby a pre niektorých aj ceske kasina pre slovakov, ktoré poskytujú zábavu v rôznych formách.

Na Slovensku sa v posledných rokoch zvýšil záujem o aktívny oddych a prírodné zážitky. Mnoho ľudí sa venuje turistike v národných parkoch alebo cyklistike na novovybudovaných trasách. Liptov, Orava či Slovenský raj ponúkajú nádherné scenérie, ktoré sú ideálne na víkendové výlety. Počas leta sú obľúbené aj termálne kúpaliská, ktoré poskytujú relax po náročných pracovných dňoch. Tento trend aktívneho životného štýlu je viditeľný najmä u mladých ľudí, ktorí hľadajú rovnováhu medzi prácou a voľným časom.

Mestá ako Košice a Banská Bystrica ponúkajú nielen bohatú históriu, ale aj dynamický kultúrny život. Počas roka sa tu koná množstvo podujatí, ktoré lákajú návštevníkov z celého Slovenska aj zo zahraničia. Rôzne trhy, festivaly a hudobné vystúpenia sú skvelou príležitosťou na stretnutie s priateľmi a objavovanie nových chutí a tradícií. Slovensko má veľký potenciál v oblasti cestovného ruchu, a preto je dôležité podporovať miestne podniky a atrakcie, ktoré prispievajú k rozvoju regiónov.










Kultúrne a voľnočasové zážitky v strednej Európe

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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