Lesson Overview

This A1 Halloween 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 Halloween 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 Henry’s Halloween celebrations. 

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

1. Odd word out. 
2. Where to go?
3. New words. 
4. Let’s make sentences. 
5. Halloween activities. 
6. Halloween dialogue. 
7. Listening practice.
8. Reading: Henry’s Halloween. 
9. Picture round. 

Homework

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

1. Writing practice.