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Diwali Lesson Plan

This document provides a lesson plan about the Diwali festival for English language students ages 12-17 at level B1 and above. The 60-90 minute lesson involves students reading about and discussing Diwali, answering comprehension questions, and retelling the legend of Diwali. It concludes with an activity where students research and present to the class about a festival from their own culture or another culture. The goal is to improve students' speaking skills while learning about cultural celebrations.

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Diwali Lesson Plan

This document provides a lesson plan about the Diwali festival for English language students ages 12-17 at level B1 and above. The 60-90 minute lesson involves students reading about and discussing Diwali, answering comprehension questions, and retelling the legend of Diwali. It concludes with an activity where students research and present to the class about a festival from their own culture or another culture. The goal is to improve students' speaking skills while learning about cultural celebrations.

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Topic

Celebrating Diwali, festivals, special events

Aims
• Students will practise speaking skills for fluency.
• Students will understand a text about Diwali and answer questions to demonstrate
comprehension.
• Students will develop skills for describing an event.

Age group
12 - 17

Level
B1 +

Time
60 – 90 minutes

Materials
1. Diwali Student Worksheet
2. Internet links: http://www.diwali.co.uk/ - an excellent site giving load of information about Diwali

Introduction

These materials focus on the topic of festivals. Students will read a short text about Diwali and then
complete a series of comprehension tasks.
Students will then work to recreate the text using prompts and then retell the legend of Diwali to their
classmates.
Finally, students will have an opportunity to make notes about a festival of their choice and tell the
class about it.
Procedure

1. Word Write the following words on the board: food – festival – parties.
association Ask students to talk about what they associate with these words. Give
students some time to talk about their associations and then ask for
feedback, writing any new vocabulary on the board.

2. Speaking Ask students if there are any festivals celebrated in the Autumn in their
region or town?

3. Reading – Write the following paragraph headings on the board


matching activity • Celebrations in the temple
• Diwali and families
• Celebrations in Leicester
• The meaning of Diwali
• The legend associated with Diwali
Students then read the text on the worksheet individually and do task 1 -
matching each heading to a paragraph. Then compare answers in pairs.
Conduct feedback and then ask students to answer the 3 comprehension
questions in pairs.

4. After-reading Tell students to look at the ‘after-reading tasks’ on the worksheet.


(optional) Important. This task is suited to lower levels but can be skipped with higher
level classes.
A. Describe a typical Diwali day for Erisha.
This can be done with the whole class, paying attention to their use of the
Present Simple. Encourage use of linking words/phrases like:
 after that
 and then
 next
 before –ing; after –ing
 finally
B. Three things people do to celebrate Diwali. Students work in pairs to
answer the questions.
C. Ticking the best answer. Students work in pairs to answer the questions.
Ask them to justify their choices.
5. Re-telling the With higher level students, ask them to work in pairs and use the words in
legend the table to reconstruct the legend of Diwali.
1. Students work in pairs first to retell the legend. This should be a
speaking activity.
2. Ask for a volunteer to retell the legend to the class, encouraging other
students to give information that may be missed.
With lower level classes, you can do this activity with the whole class
together.

6. Personalisation This final activity asks students to think about festivals or special days in
and extension their context.
Either alone or, in pairs or small groups, ask students to identify a special
day or festival that they have enough knowledge of to talk about.
Students should make notes in preparation for a short presentation,
focusing on the things in the list.
Students then present their festival or special event to the rest of the class.
Variations
Ask students to research information about a festival or special event from a
different country
Ask students to design their own festival or special event using the items in
the list to structure their idea.

Contributed by

Clare Lavery

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