This ready-to-go lesson is designed for grade 2-3 or maybe grade 4 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.
New Year's Lesson
Grade: 2-3 | Duration: 45–60 minutes | Slide Total: 56
Help your students continue learning about New Year’s with this fun, interactive, and speaking-focused ESL PowerPoint lesson! Students expand their vocabulary by learning common New Year’s goals before practicing the future tense through engaging games, speaking activities, and sentence-building exercises.
This lesson introduces students to the following vocabulary:
- make new friends
- study hard
- read many books
- get a new pet
- get new toys
Students use this vocabulary to answer the target question:
“What will you do this year?”
Example answers:
- “This year, I will study hard.”
- “This year, I will make new friends.”
- “This year, I will read many books.”
What’s Included?
✅ Vocabulary & Sentence Building: Students learn and practice five common New Year’s resolutions using clear visuals, repetition, and guided speaking activities.
✅ Future Tense Practice: Students build confidence using will to talk about future plans in complete English sentences.
✅ Interactive Speaking Activities: Students repeatedly answer the target question through pair work, whole-class speaking, and teacher-led practice.
✅ Fun Classroom Games: Includes Slow Reveal Game, Flyswatter Game, Click Game, Guessing Game, Spinning Wheel Game, and more!
✅ Sentence Support for ESL Learners: Word banks, visual prompts, and structured sentence patterns help students produce complete sentences independently.
✅ Bright Visuals & Chinese Support: Colorful slides with bilingual support improve comprehension while keeping students engaged throughout the lesson.
Why This Lesson?
🎉 Encourages students to talk about future goals using real-life English
🗣️ Develops confidence speaking in complete sentences
🎯 Reinforces future tense grammar through repetition and meaningful communication
🎲 Packed with engaging games that keep every student participating
🏫 Perfect for large public school ESL classrooms and small-group lessons
This classroom-tested PowerPoint is designed specifically for Grade 2-3 ESL learners and works especially well in speaking-focused classrooms. With structured practice, exciting games, and highly visual slides, students stay engaged while developing confidence using will to talk about their plans and goals for the new year.
Watch the video to see the full lesson and how to teach it.
Slide total: 58 (You can see some example slides here)
