Christmas in Australia - Reading and Writing Lesson - Adult ESL

This is an integrated reading and writing lesson for intermediate level adult ESL students. It is based around an information text about Christmas in Australia but expands to include other international celebrations relevant to the students in your class.

This is very easy to use, just print and go, no prep required except for printing. I’ve even given you the answers. I’ve included the last 2 activities as an extension activity for able students and requires a knowledge of the language of comparison.

This lesson could be used as:

• a topic based lesson about Christmas which extends to other celebrations or

• as a lesson in reading and writing Information texts.

You can use it all or just parts, up to you and the level of your students.

Skills:

Reading for main idea

Reading for detail

Vocabulary extension and use

Notetaking

Speaking and Listening – Asking and answering questions

Writing an Information Report

Using a Graphic Organiser to organise ideas

Writing a compare/contrast essay

You will find a lesson on the language of comparison here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/comaprative-and-superlative-adjectives-12580535