Grade 2-3 (or 1) - Festivals of the Year - 2 PowerPoint COMBO

These 2 ready-to-go lessons are designed for grade 2-3 or grade 1 learners.  These lessons were designed with Chinese in them as the L1 of the learners, but after purchase and download the PowerPoints can be edited, so all Chinese can be removed or changed into any language.

🎉🌍 Festivals of the Year ESL PowerPoint Lesson Bundle 🌍🎉
Part 1: Festivals Around the World + Part 2: Festival Foods
Grade 2–3 (Can also work for Grade 1)

Teach your students about exciting festivals from around the world with this fun, highly interactive, and beginner-friendly ESL PowerPoint lesson bundle! This two-part bundle helps students learn festival vocabulary, traditional foods, speaking patterns, sentence building, and cultural connections through colorful visuals, games, movement activities, and structured speaking practice.

These lessons are carefully designed to work extremely well in both large public school ESL classes with 40+ students and small tutoring or private classes. The visual slides, interactive games, repetition activities, and speaking frames help keep students engaged and actively participating throughout both lessons.

🎊 Part 1 – Festivals Around the World

Students learn important festival vocabulary and practice expressing their opinions about festivals.

Festivals Included:

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

Target Language:

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

Activities Included:

✅ Quick Say Game
✅ Flying Words Game
✅ Guessing Game
✅ Four Corners Classroom Game
✅ Writing Activities
✅ Interactive Review Games

🍽️ Part 2 – Festival Foods

Students learn common foods connected to festivals around the world while practicing speaking and sentence building.

Food Vocabulary Included:

✅ cookies
✅ candy
✅ turkey
✅ chocolate eggs
✅ dumplings
✅ potato pancakes

Target Language:

➡️ Which food is this?
➡️ Which food do people like to eat at Christmas?
➡️ People like to eat dumplings at Chinese New Year.

Activities Included:

✅ Slow Reveal Game
✅ Memory Matching Game
✅ Guessing Game
✅ Festival & Food Matching Activities
✅ Writing & Sentence Building Activities
✅ Interactive Review Games

🗣 Students practice real beginner conversations such as:

➡️ Which festival do you like best?
➡️ I like Easter best.

➡️ Which food do people like to eat at Thanksgiving?
➡️ People like to eat turkey at Thanksgiving.

The lessons gradually build confidence from simple vocabulary recognition to full sentence speaking and writing activities.

⭐ 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 teaching

This PowerPoint bundle is designed to make learning visual, exciting, highly interactive, and easy to follow while giving students lots of opportunities to practice speaking English naturally and confidently.

Watch the videos to see the full lessons and how to teach them.

2 PowerPoints in total