Lesson Overview

This FREE A1 Valentine’s Day 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 new words are studied in-detail, before learners are given a series of tasks related to the topic. Afterwards, there is a reading exercise in which students read about Valentine’s Day celebrations in different countries. 

There is an awesome video-based activity which enables students to practise their comprehension skills. This A1 Valentine’s Day ESL lesson plan finishes with an excellent speaking activity which your students will love!

Activities:

1. Valentine’s Day gifts. 
2. New words. 
3. Let’s make sentences. 
4. Video: Valentine’s Day.
5. Where to go on a date?
6. Reading: Valentine’s Day. 
7. Picture round. 

Homework

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

1. Writing practice.