This lesson plan for ESL beginners focuses on traditional Canadian Thanksgiving dinners, while also encouraging students to discuss their own cultural traditions. The plan includes activities for vocabulary building and practice, a short video, audio and comprehension exercises, and reflection questions about personal festival experiences.
Category Archives: Canada
Week of Aug. 25/25
Explore this simplified introduction to part of Canada’s citizenship guide. This lesson plan for ESL beginners focuses on the history and geography of Canada’s West Coast.
The lesson includes warm-ups, vocabulary exercises, a listening and reading passage, a short video, and reflection questions. This lesson plan is one of many new lesson plans in the Introducing Canadian Citizenship section.
Week of Aug. 18/25
Introducing Canadian citizenship:
This new webpage offers simplified and shortened citizenship lesson plans for beginner ESL students. The page will introduce your ESL students to some of the subjects covered on the citizenship test, linking to 10 new lesson plans on Canada’s history, economy, and geography (five of them including new videos).
Week of July 7/25
This lesson plan teaches your beginner ESL students about small talk in Canada. Activities include vocabulary building, identifying suitable conversation topics, a short video, and practicing open-ended responses.
Cultural discussions highlight differences in small talk expectations. The class encourages full sentence responses and reflection on personal experiences.
Week of June 9/25
This lesson plan teaches beginning ESL students how to sing “O Canada.” The plan includes vocabulary building, understanding the anthem’s meaning, and pronunciation practice. Activities involve listening, singing, and reflecting on personal experiences with national anthems.
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