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Celebrating Cultures: Exploring Our Favorite Festivals

In this engaging activity, students discuss their favorite festivals, highlighting what makes them special. They learn vocabulary related to the Lunar New Year, matching words with appropriate headings. Through guided writing, students reorder a description of the Lunar New Year and enrich it with adjectives to enhance interest and detail. Finally, they create their own festival descriptions, practicing editing and vocabulary application. This lesson focuses on expanding vocabulary, expressing opinions, and improving writing skills, fostering creativity and cultural appreciation.

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Celebrating Cultures: Exploring Our Favorite Festivals

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  1. Three festivals: Overview http://www.telenex.hku.hk/telec/pteach/menu/ptmenuca.htm Description Students talk about their favourite festivals and explain what they like about them. They then match words associated with Lunar New Year with an appropriate heading. Students use some of this information to help them reorder a description of Lunar New Year and add adjectives to make the text more interesting and informative. Finally, students design and write a short description of their own festival.

  2. 1. To revise and extend students' vocabulary related to festivals. 2. To give students practice in using the vocabulary in sentences. 3. To give students guided writing practice. 4. To give students practice in editing a text. Objectives

  3. Vocabulary: Festivals Grammar: Using modals to express possibilityUsing present simple to express thoughts and opinions Text types: Descriptions Language focus

  4. Learning targetsStudents will be developing language skills that are needed to:Knowledge dimension: Find out information Recognise and solve a simple problemInterpersonal dimension: Exchange information with others on familiar topics Express an opinion

  5. 1. Presenting and eliciting vocabulary - Whole-class work 2. Playing a guessing game - Whole-class and group work 3. Reading and correcting texts - Pair work 4. Writing a short description - Individual work Activities

  6. http://www.telenex.hku.hk/telec/pteach/menu/ptmenuca.htm My new festival My new festival: Overview Description

  7. Objectives

  8. Language focus

  9. Learning targets Students will develop language skills that are needed to:

  10. Activities

  11. My New Festival

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