EASTER

OBJECTIVES

 

• To learn about Easter traditions.

• To explore ways of developing language skills through activities related to Easter.

• To explore different art techniques and communicative proposals.

 

CONTENTS 

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• Easter traditions in UK.

• Resources and ideas to promote English skills in the ESL classroom and to develop creativity.

 

WARM UP

Eggs hunting: The Easter Bunny has been in the classroom and has hidden 25 chocolate eggs. We need to find them. The condition for eating them is that first we have to check that all of them have been found. With older students we can create a more complex hunting by challenging them with puzzles or questions that must be resolved around the school.

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INTRODUCE LANGUAGE AND CONTENT

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Short story for little ones to revise vocabulary

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Action songs for little ones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thinglink: Children explore the videos and the pages about Easter and then write about this celebration. We can guide the research by asking them to focus on some aspects:

• Words related to Easter

• When is Easter?

• Is it religious?

• What children do at Easter?

Depending on the age of the students and their level we can make open or close questions and we can guide them to complete or write sentences, to circle among different options or to draw.

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PRACTICE LANGUAGE AND CONTENT

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Easter riddles

 

Blockbuster game: We draw a bee hive on the board and divide the class in groups. Each cell corresponds to a question or a challenge. Teams take turn and choose a cell. In order to win students need to solve 4 cells in line.

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PRODUCE LANGUAGE

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Missing information: Where is the rabbit? Where are the eggs? Student A has a drawing with 8 eggs and a little rabbit. Student B has a drawing with 8 different eggs and a big rabbit. They must share the information to complete the task. We first have taught them prepositions such as under, next to, behind, on, in...

 

Lap book: In small groups they create a lap book about Easter.

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Webquest: Research proposal for the big ones.

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ARTS AND CRAFTS

 

Easter Bunny puppet origami

 

 

 

 

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Painting eggs using different techniques

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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More Arts and Crafts 

 

 

 

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