ESL Lesson Plan Is Christmas Too Expensive?

Level: A2
Time: 90 min
Media: Article

Lesson Overview

This A2 ESL lesson explores the topic “Is Christmas Too Expensive?”, helping students develop vocabulary and language for talking about Christmas shopping, presents, spending habits, budgets, and money.

Through a variety of engaging activities, students learn Christmas-related vocabulary, practise using too much, too many and enough, complete…

Through a variety of engaging activities, students learn Christmas-related vocabulary, practise using too much, too many and enough, complete dialogues, read about different people's Christmas spending habits, give advice using should and shouldn't, and discuss everyday spending situations. They also plan their perfect Christmas on a budget and share their opinions on Christmas spending.

This lesson is ideal for A2 learners who want to develop confidence talking about Christmas, money, shopping, presents, budgets, and spending habits.

Activity Layout

Christmas: Warm-Up
Christmas: Key Words
Grammar: Too Much, Too Many, Enough
Christmas Spending: Dialogue
Phillip's Christmas Spending
Christmas Spending: Should / Shouldn't
Christmas: What Would You Do?
Christmas: Budget
Agree or Disagree?

Homework

There is an excellent homework task to supplement this A2 ESL lesson plan on “Is Christmas Too Expensive?”. Students are challenged to write detailed answers to questions about their Christmas spending habits.

Writing Task: Questions

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