End of the Year Around the World!

In this activity, students reflect on the past year while exploring festivals around the world, learning new vocabulary, moving around the school, and writing creatively.

The tasks include simple writing activities, with optional bonus challenges such as writing a comic strip, an ad, a movie review, thank you letters, WhatsApp messages, and more.

Each festival is connected to a meaningful metaphor. For example, when students “arrive” in the United States and visit the International Balloon Fiesta in New Mexico, they think about someone who helped “lift them up” this year.

This turns the activity into both a language learning experience and a personal journey of reflection, gratitude, and creativity.

2. In the "Holi Festival of Color", students get to think about the "different shades of friendship" and reflect about the new things they learned about a close friend. 

oh and it looks great if you only have a black and white printer!!

3. When they "visit" the Comic- Con in San Diego, they get to think about their own super powers and write a comic strip!

How to do the activities in class?

Step 1:

The teacher hangs different posters around the school of different places:

The US, Portugal, Brazil, China, Canada, India, Thailand and more. 

Download all 8 activities from here. 

The teacher hangs the different
posters around the school

Step 2:

The teacher gives each student a map of the world and the different places they are going to visit! Download the map from here.  and photocopy one for each student in class. 

Step 3:

Students go around the school and look for all those "places"! 

Once they find a place, they become "visitors"! they read about the annual festival that takes place in that city, they read the question at the bottom and they answer the question on their map of the world. 

For example, they answer the question that was asked about Thailand, here:

Differentiation:

For those who have time, they can do the bonus task!

For example:

These extra activities help students work on other language skills as they record videos, write letters to real people, design ads and write reviews!

At the end of the lesson, students can show you their map and all the places they have visited!! Students can share their work and present in front of the class. 

Each student gets a map to write the answers in and
they show the teacher where they have visited

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