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 2: Festival Foods 🎉🍽️
Grade 2–3 (Can also work for Grade 1)
Continue teaching students about festivals from around the world with this fun, visual, and highly interactive ESL PowerPoint lesson focused on traditional festival foods! Students learn food vocabulary connected to different holidays and festivals while practicing speaking, reading, listening, guessing, and sentence-building activities in a beginner-friendly way.
This lesson is designed to work especially well in both large public school ESL classes with 40+ students and small tutoring or private classes. The structured speaking frames, visual supports, interactive games, and repetition activities help keep students engaged and participating throughout the lesson.
🍪 This lesson teaches:
✅ food
✅ cookies
✅ candy
✅ turkey
✅ chocolate eggs
✅ dumplings
✅ potato pancakes
Students also review these festivals:
- Christmas
- Thanksgiving
- Easter
- Chinese New Year
- Halloween
- Hanukkah
🗣 Target Language
Students practice beginner-friendly speaking patterns such as:
➡️ Which food is this?
➡️ It’s candy.
➡️ Which food do people like to eat at Christmas?
➡️ People like to eat turkey at Thanksgiving.
➡️ Which festival do you like best?
➡️ I like Easter best.
The lesson gradually builds confidence from vocabulary recognition to full sentence speaking practice.
🎮 Interactive Activities Included:
✅ Quick Say Game
✅ Slow Reveal Game
✅ Guessing Game
✅ Memory Matching Game
✅ Festival & Food Matching Activities
✅ Writing & Sentence Building Activities
✅ Interactive Review Games
✅ Speaking Practice with Sentence Frames
Students actively connect foods with different festivals while practicing natural English communication.
✍️ Writing & Sentence Practice
Students practice sentence-building activities such as:
➡️ People like to eat ______ at Christmas.
➡️ People like to eat dumplings at Chinese New Year.
These activities help reinforce vocabulary, reading, spelling, 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
✔ Food-themed ESL 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)
