Grade 2-3 (or 1) - ESL Lesson - Festivals of the Year - Part 1 - PowerPoint Lesson

This ready-to-go lesson is designed for grade 2-3 or grade 1 learners. This lesson was 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.

🎉 Festivals of the Year ESL PowerPoint Lesson – Part 1 🎉
Grade 2–3 (Can also work for Grade 1)

Teach your students about popular festivals from around the world with this fun, visual, and highly interactive ESL PowerPoint lesson designed for young English learners! Students learn important festival vocabulary, practice speaking in complete sentences, and participate in exciting classroom games and activities that keep everyone engaged from beginning to end.

This lesson is designed to work very well in both large public school ESL classes with 40+ students and small tutoring or private classes. The structured activities, colorful visuals, speaking frames, and interactive games help students stay focused and actively participate throughout the lesson.

🎊 This lesson teaches:

✅ festival
✅ Christmas
✅ Thanksgiving
✅ Easter
✅ Chinese New Year
✅ Halloween
✅ Hanukkah

🗣 Target Language

Students practice beginner-friendly speaking patterns such as:

➡️ Do you know any festivals?
➡️ Which festival do you like best?
➡️ I like Christmas best.

Students gradually build confidence from simple vocabulary recognition to complete sentence speaking practice.

🎮 Interactive Activities Included:

✅ Quick Say Game
✅ Flying Words Game
✅ Guessing Game
✅ Writing Game
✅ Four Corners Classroom Game
✅ Interactive Review Activities
✅ Speaking Practice with Sentence Frames

The lesson also includes engaging class polling and movement-based activities that help students use English naturally while having fun.

✍️ Writing Practice Included

Students complete simple writing activities connected to the target language:

➡️ I like ______ best.

This helps reinforce vocabulary, sentence structure, and speaking confidence.

⭐ Perfect for:

✔ Grade 1 ESL
✔ Grade 2 ESL
✔ Grade 3 ESL
✔ Large classes (40+ students)
✔ Small classes & tutoring groups
✔ Public school ESL classrooms
✔ Beginner English learners
✔ Festival & holiday-themed lessons
✔ Online ESL classes

This PowerPoint is designed to make learning visual, exciting, beginner-friendly, and highly interactive while giving students lots of opportunities to practice speaking English confidently in complete sentences.

Slide total: 60 (You can see some example slides here)