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Christmas and New Year ESL Resources

Check out the rich Christmas resources on our SOCEM site including Christmas lessons from the Virtues series and the Conversation Guides:

An excellent reading about the North American Christmas traditions, with a glossary:

Christmas traditions around the world; good for starting conversations with students:

Stories behind favourite Christmas carols and hymns:

A Christmas story from Chicken Soup for the Soul:

Christmas vocabulary:

Christian Christmas scripts, if you are thinking along the lines of producing a Christmas play:

Grief and the holiday season:

While not written specifically for ESL, these readings are relatively short and in plainer language. They deal with an important topic. Consider simplify the language further through Rewordify if you are to use them for lower level students:

A few websites for New Year resources later on:

Warm up conversation questions, and a host of other links with readings, questions, worksheets:

New Year lessons, quizzes and worksheets for different levels:

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