Thanksgiving Day (A2/B1)
somdn_product_pageBring culture and conversation into your classroom with this ESL Thanksgiving lesson for A2–B1 intermediate learners. Students learn about Thanksgiving traditions through engaging readings, vocabulary tasks, pair discussions, and a creative writing activity. This printable Thanksgiving Day lesson plan for intermediate ESL students builds reading, speaking, and writing skills while exploring one of America’s most famous holidays.
This lesson comes with:
Fillable Fields – This worksheet can be completed digitally or printed.
Teacher’s Copy – Includes detailed teacher’s notes and an answer key.
Student Version – Perfect for sharing via email for online lessons.
This is most suited to A2/B1 level students.
1 hour, 20 minutes +
Lesson focus
- Skills: Reading comprehension, speaking, writing, and vocabulary
- Language: Past tenses, topic-specific lexis, and expressions for giving thanks
- Topic: Thanksgiving Day traditions and history
How to use this Thanksgiving Day lesson plan (Intermediate)
- Warm up: Ask the opening questions about holidays/celebrations.
- Pre-teach vocabulary: Do the picture–matching activity.
- Reading & information exchange: Students split Text A/B, memorise key details, retell, then read both.
- Vocabulary focus: Students discuss the meaning of the vocabulary in the text.
- True/False quiz to review key facts.
- Consolidation: Vocabulary recall race (complete the words) and the guided writing task about a celebration in their country; share in pairs/groups.
Looking for other levels?
Download this printable ESL Thanksgiving lesson for your A2/B1 classes today!
For best results when printing our PDFs, open and print them through Adobe Acrobat. https://get.adobe.com/reader/
You may also like…
Related products
Our Reviews
Holiday and Travel Phrasal Verbs
Great Conversation Questions 1
Holiday and Travel Phrasal Verbs
Great Conversation Questions 1
