Teach your beginner ESL students about a traditional Canadian Christmas dinner and encourage discussions about their own cultural traditions. This lesson includes interactive vocabulary activities, a short video, and reflection questions to enhance your students’ speaking, listening, and reading skills.
Category Archives: Canada
Week of Dec. 1/25
Teach your beginner ESL students basic recipe vocabulary, using the example of Christmas shortbread.
This lesson plan offers warm-up activities (including a short video), and skill-building and assessment tasks.
Students will learn some cooking verbs and ingredients, follow recipe instructions, and learn about the mix of measurements used in Canada.
Finally, students will be able to share festive recipes from their own cultures.
Week of Nov. 10/25
Watch this short video role play about winter weather. This video is part of a complete lesson plan on the ESL Directions website.
Week of Nov. 3/25
Why do we celebrate Remembrance Day? This lesson plan focuses on Canada’s role in World War I and the reasons we celebrate Remembrance Day. The lesson includes warm-up activities, vocabulary exercises, reading passages, and reflection questions aimed at fostering understanding of Canadian history.
Week of Oct. 20/25
Teach your beginner ESL students about Halloween. This lesson plan includes vocabulary flashcards and practice, a short video, storytelling, quizzes, and reflection questions.
The lesson will enhance your students’ understanding of Halloween and encourage discussions on similar celebrations in their home countries.
ESL Directions 