Lesson Overview

This A1 ESL lesson explores the topic “Christmas Day”, helping students learn useful vocabulary, verbs, and phrases for talking about Christmas traditions, activities, food, presents, and family time.

Learners practise key Christmas vocabulary such as Christmas tree, Santa Claus, stocking, presents, reindeer, turkey, wreath, and snowman, as well as common Christmas verbs including watch, wrap, decorate, cook, play, and build. They develop their ability to talk about what they usually do on Christmas Day and describe their own Christmas traditions.

Through a variety of engaging activities, students practise the present simple, talk about daily routines and times, complete dialogues, read about other people's Christmas Days, express opinions, and discuss their favourite Christmas traditions.

This lesson is ideal for A1 learners who are developing confidence talking about Christmas, family, food, routines, traditions, and everyday activities.

1. Christmas Films: Discussion
2. Christmas: Key Words
3. Christmas: Verbs
4. My Christmas Day: Timetable
5. Christmas: Dialogue
6. Let's Read: Christmas
7. Agree or Disagree?
8. Christmas: Picture Round
9. Christmas: Favourites

Homework

There is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome A1 ESL lesson plan on “Christmas Day”. Students are challenged to write detailed answers to simple questions about their Christmas traditions, routines, food, presents, films, music, and decorations.

1. Writing Task: Questions