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New Year's Day ActivityNew Year's Day Activity
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Sean Banville
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New Year's Day

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Focus on a passage about the new year with your English language learners. You can start with reading the passage aloud to your class, and then launch into the related activities. Pupils match phrases, complete cloze-style activities, practice spelling and sentence structure in various ways, participate in a survey discussion, and write about New Year's Day.

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english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Try out some of the homework assignment ideas as in-class assignments; pupils can work with partners or small groups

Classroom Considerations

  • Some of the activities are rather repetitive, so you may wish to pick and choose your favorite cloze-style activity and your favorite sentence structure exercise

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  • Comes with a list of homework assignments you can use to extend the lesson

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  • None

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