Summer

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Celebrations: Inti Raymi—The festival of the sun

In this lesson, available at two levels, students read texts about the historical festival of Inti Raymi in modern day South America.

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Celebrations: Cinco de Mayo

In this lesson, available at two levels, students read a text about Cinco de Mayo and create a multiple-choice quiz for others to do.

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Celebrations: Coming Of Age

In this lesson, available at two levels, students read and discuss four short texts about four different coming of age celebrations around the world.

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Business News Lessons: We need permanent summer time to lift our mood

September 2019: In this lesson, available at two levels, students read an authentic article from the Financial Times and discuss business topics including health and the office environment.

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Celebrations: Dragon Boat Festival

In this lesson, offered at two levels, students read an article about the Dragon Boat Festival.

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Celebrations: Prom night

In this lesson, offered at two levels, students will read a text and analyse language related to prom night.

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Celebrations: Eid al-Fitr

In this lesson, students will read facts about Eid al-Fitr and talk about fasting.

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Celebrations: Rio and Notting Hill Carnivals

In this lesson, students read about two international carnivals and create an advertising poster.

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Celebrations: Independence Day

In this lesson, students do a quiz about the US using the alphabet.

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Celebrations: Carnival masks

Students identify types of mask, read about masks and design a carnival mask. 

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Celebrate a summer of culture

Celebrate a summer of culture and share your top travel tips with us!

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Lesson Share: A carnival story

Catherine Zgouras wins the lesson share competition with this fun-filled lesson for young learners.

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Summer solstice

In this lesson plan, pupils match sentence halves, number a series of pictures and identify words hidden in a picture to describe the ways people celebrate the longest day of the year. The worksheet includes fun colouring and drawing exercises and helps pupils practise forming sentences and reading aloud.

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Carnival

This lesson plan inspires creativity while consolidating important verbs such as ‘sing’, dance’ and ‘wear’. Students match phrases to pictures, learn a fun rhyme, and draw and describe a Carnival costume.

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Live from Oxford: Ideal summer - audio

This month the onestopenglish reporters are in Oxford, asking locals and visitors questions about their daily lives. We walked around the university and asked people about their ideal summer plans. 

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Teen Talk: Summer blockbuster movies

Lindsay Clandfield brings some Hollywood action and glamour into your class of teenagers.

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Young learner topics: Festivals – American Independence Day

Julian L'Enfant presents two lesson plans on the 4th July celebrations – an introduction to the history of the American flag and the Declaration of Independence, with reading tasks and games, and a follow-up craft activity.

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Summer stories

In this speaking lesson by Lindsay Clandfield, students prepare and tell each other an anecdote relating to the summer.

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Festivals: American Day of Independence (4th July)

This is considered to be the birthday of the United States of America and is celebrated each year with fireworks displays, parades, family gatherings and concerts. At the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763 (a conflict mainly about trading rights between Great Britain and France in the ...

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Festivals: Summer solstice (20th June)

This is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and has been celebrated for thousands of years. Solstice actually means a stopping or standing still of the sun. Many different cultures and religions have been fascinated by the sun or have worshipped it throughout history as it ...