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6 Tips to Help your Students Improve their Vocabulary

6 Tips to Help your Students Improve their Vocabulary

Posted on June 10, 2020March 9, 2025 by Patricia M

Do you want to help your students enhance their vocabulary skills? Whether you’re teaching in a classroom or virtually, building a solid vocabulary is crucial for ESL learners. Below is a list of effective ESL vocabulary activities and techniques that READ MORE

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Engage your ESL students with this vibrant, ready-to-use ESL Chinese New Year lesson plan! This comprehensive, downloadable PDF is packed with interactive English teaching materials designed to build language skills and cultural awareness. Perfect for upper-intermediate to advanced ESL students, this resource includes: Warm-up conversation activities to spark classroom discussions. Vocabulary exercises with image-definition matching and gap-fill tasks. A reading comprehension activity focused on Chinese New Year traditions and zodiac animals. A listening exercise exploring New Year parades and the Lantern Festival. A task-based learning project where students research and present on global festivals, with useful phrases for describing events. This lesson can be split across two classes and comes with optional ESL homework exercises for extra practice. Bring the excitement of Chinese New Year to your classroom with these engaging and versatile ESL resources! We have a teacher’s copy (including teacher’s notes, answer key, and pronunciation guide) and a student version which you can email to your class for online lessons. This lesson comes with: Listening Materials – Includes audio files for comprehension practice. Teacher’s Copy – Includes detailed teacher’s notes and an answer key. Student Copy – Perfect for sharing via email for online lessons. This is most suited to B2/C1- level. 2.5 hrs + (depending on the level and other considerations) Why teach this ESL Chinese New Year Lesson? Teaching the ESL Chinese New Year Lesson Plan is valuable because it combines language learning with cultural exploration, making lessons more engaging and meaningful for upper-intermediate to advanced students. This resource not only builds essential English skills—such as vocabulary, listening, reading comprehension, and speaking—but also broadens students’ understanding of important global traditions like Chinese New Year. By integrating cultural content, students develop greater cultural awareness and appreciation, which enhances their motivation and curiosity. The interactive activities and task-based projects encourage communication, critical thinking, and real-world application of language, helping learners connect English to authentic experiences. Plus, the flexible format and comprehensive materials support both classroom and online learning, making it a versatile tool for diverse teaching environments. Try this ESL Chinese New Year Lesson in class today! For best results when printing our PDFs, open and print them through Adobe Acrobat (free).

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