A selection of English ESL holidays and fun printables

The American holiday that Americans love to celebrate - the 4th of July or Independence Day. In this video-based lesson, students will learn all about this American National Holiday. History, fun facts, improve listening skills, and build vocabulary. This is just a few exercises from the full lesson plan. For access to the full plan, sign up as a TeacherPro at: www.pocketpassport.com



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Check out the YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/fFnItnVlWws

Independence Day History | 4th of July

Sing the Rockin' Robin song then make a Christmas robin.

Rockin' Robin song and make

Color and practise dates, months of the year, ordinal numbers. Talk abot celebrations in Colombia. Have fun and enjoy learning how to express dates. Aged nine to 13

HOLIDAYS AND DATES FOR COLORING

I usually use this for running dictations around Thanksgiving to teach the students a little about the holiday and let them have a fun activity which practices all the skills.  You could definitely do a lot more with it concentrating on vocab or grammar.  

Thanksgiving text  and quiz (running dictation) 

Students must watch a video and listen to the Easter story. Then they must fill in the blanks with the words they heard. This is a fun and easy listening and reading comprehension text about Easter history and traditions.  


Video Link: https://youtu.be/ItNKopZafmc
Students will learn about the story of Easter, vocabulary, and traditions.


Answers are provided on the second page with the teacher guide! 

Easter Simple Listening and Reading Comprehension with Video

This fun Halloween homonyms lesson teaches students the difference between your and you're. It accompanies a short animated video lesson and has fill-in-the-blanks exercises, true or false, and a writing activity. 

Students will learn how to know the difference between these two homophones. They will practice spelling, writing, reading, and speaking. 

There is also a teacher guide on page two with a link to the video lesson that goes along with this worksheet and an answer key! 

This lesson accompanies my YouTube video on the difference between your and you're found here: 

https://youtu.be/71-6_Hw8rGY

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Homonyms Lesson - Your or You're? ESL Spelling and Writing Worksheet

This ws presents activities people usually do on holiday. Ss match the activities with the images. Have some holiday fun too ;)

What people do at the beach

I just love funfairs! Have fun! Enjoy your day! :)

At the funfair

Why not to use them as a fun way to revise the vocab connected with holidays before a test ;)

Beach Holiday-cards 8

Use these fun and cute flashcards to teach the 12 Months of the Year and Holidays. Just download the file, print them out and laminate them. Get quick and easy flashcards in minutes.



Are you looking for a fun activity to play when teaching the 12 Months of the Year and Holidays?

Try out Secret Squares from BINGOBONGO Learning in your next lesson in class or online.

https://www.bingobongokids.com/secret-squares-months



Do you want a fun, catchy song that perfectly fits the 12 Months of the Year and Holidays flashcards?

Check out the 12 Months of the Year song from BINGOBONGO Learning. With this song, kids are sure to remember the 12 Months of the Year and Holidays in no time. You can find this song and more in the BINGOBONGO Learning FUN!box or on our Youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/c/AGoKidsRock



12 Months Flashcards with Holidays | Free Flashcards and Games | BINGOBONGO Learning

This Halloween homonyms lesson teaches students the difference between which, witch, and -wich. It accompanies a short animated video lesson and has fill-in-the-blanks exercises, true or false, and a Halloween tongue twister.



Students will learn how to know the difference between these three homophones. They will practice spelling, writing, reading, and speaking. There is also a teacher guide on page two with a link to the video lesson that goes along with this worksheet and an answer key! Students will also be able to write their own fun tongue twisters using these words.



Video: https://youtu.be/LYWKPOSuy40



Happy Halloween, teachers!

Halloween Homonyms Lesson - Which, Witch, or -wich? ESL Spelling and Writing Worksheet

This worksheet teaches all the rules of capitalization in a fun holiday/fall/autumn-themed worksheet. Students will learn all the rules of when to capitalize with examples. 



They will have to capitalize a series of sentences without capitalization. Finally, there is a fun exercise where they need to write a synopsis for their own holiday movie or film. 



They need to use correct capitalization in their titles and draw a picture to accompany their holiday movie summary.



This lesson directly accompanies my YouTube video on capitalization here: https://youtu.be/KdJL9qJ8t0A



Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving/Fall-Themed Capitalization Rules and Movie Trailer Writing Exercise with Answer Key

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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how to accuse somebody of something in English

how to apologize, say sorry, forgive and express regret in English

how to ask for information and make inquiries in English

how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

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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85 Holidays and fun English ESL worksheets pdf & doc