Lesson Overview

This A1 Christmas ESL lesson plan is perfect for your beginner ESL students. It provides all the necessary language and scaffolding to ensure students are able to participate fully and enjoy it. 

The class begins with a fun warm-up exercise. Next, they are introduced to new words related to the topic, which they are then challenged to use in the next exercise. 

Multiple Christmas words and activities are explored in-detail, before learners are given a series of tasks related to the topic. Afterwards, there is a reading exercise in which students read Harriet’s Christmas celebrations. 

There is an awesome listening activity which enables students to practise their comprehension skills. This A1 Christmas ESL lesson plan finishes with two excellent speaking activities which your students will love!

1. Christmas introduction.
2. New words. 
3. Let’s make sentences. 
4. Christmas verbs. 
5. Christmas verbs exercises. 
6. Listening practice.
7. Reading: Harriet’s Christms. 

Homework

As with all adult lesson plans on ESL Pals, there is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome A1 Christmas ESL lesson plan. Students are challenged to complete a series of past tense exercises which follows on from the lesson. 

1. Writing practice.