This ready-to-go lesson is designed for grade 1-3. This lesson is designed with Chinese in it as the L1 of the learners, but after purchase and download the PowerPoint can be edited, so all Chinese can be removed or changed into any language.
Mid-Autumn Festival
Grade: 1-3 | Duration: 45–60 minutes | Slide Total: 75
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with this fun, colorful, and highly interactive ESL PowerPoint lesson designed especially for young learners! Students learn and practice common Mid-Autumn Festival activities through speaking activities, games, repetition practice, and sentence-building tasks that keep the whole class engaged from start to finish.
This lesson introduces students to the following vocabulary:
• eat mooncakes
• drink tea
• light lanterns
• carry lanterns
• look at the moon
• spend time with family
Students use this vocabulary to answer the target question:
“What do you do at the Mid-Autumn Festival?”
Example answers:
• “I eat mooncakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival.”
• “I light lanterns at the Mid-Autumn Festival.”
What’s Included?
✅ Vocabulary & Sentence Creation: Students learn and practice 6 Mid-Autumn Festival activities with clear visuals, repetition practice, and full-sentence speaking.
✅ Interactive Speaking Activities: Students repeatedly practice the target question and answers through guided speaking tasks and classroom interaction.
✅ Fun Classroom Games: Includes guessing games, points games, spinning wheel activities, “Choose a Wall” game, Monkey Game, and more!
✅ Sentence Support for Young Learners: Structured sentence patterns and visual support help beginner ESL students speak with confidence.
✅ Bright Visuals & Cultural Learning: Colorful slides help students understand an important traditional festival while staying engaged in meaningful language practice.
✅ Drawing & Writing Activity: Students finish the lesson with a creative activity where they draw and write about what they do during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Why This Lesson?
🎉 Keeps Young Learners Engaged
🗣️ Builds Speaking Confidence
🎯 Reinforces Vocabulary Through Repetition
🌕 Introduces Cultural Knowledge in a Simple Way
🏫 Perfect for Large ESL Classrooms
This lesson is classroom-tested and designed specifically for Grades 1–3 ESL learners in speaking-focused classrooms. The games, visuals, and repetition-based activities make it easy to teach while keeping students excited and actively participating from beginning to end!
