Theme: Bonfire Night in the UK
Lexical area: Festivals

This lesson is aimed at lower level students with a variety of activities related to Bonfire night. Students will do a jigsaw reading to complete a text about Bonfire night, they will then discuss their own opinions about it. Students will design a Bonfire night menu, thinking about the food they would like to eat whilst watching fireworks. They will learn a popular Bonfire night rhyme and focus on pronunciation, before a final group work activity where they will produce a firework safety poster.


Aims:
• To develop reading skills
• To practise question formation
• To practise speaking skills
• To focus on pronunciation

Age group: 10 - 15


Level: A2 / B1


Time: 60 minutes


Materials: Bonfire Night student worksheet and jigsaw reading texts

 

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Submitted by emelaverbek on Wed, 10/28/2015 - 06:19

My students found the bonfire activity interesting, they hadn't heard it before. We decided on a assigment to find more information about bonfire through internet and to prepare postcards

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