When you teach a language, you’re teaching a lot of vocabulary and grammar. Vocabulary is the words we use and grammar is how we organize them in a way so that people understand what we’re saying.

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Transcript for TEFL Thanksgiving Activities:

Let's talk about my favorite ESL Thanksgiving activities. My first one is, what are you thankful for? This can lead to a lesson that provides some fruitful discussion and some interesting things that students might mention. So there are a million things you could do. You could have students do a short presentation about what they're thankful for. They can make a little video. They could do a written assignment. They could do group discussions. A million things but what are you thankful for is a great theme to talk about around Thanksgiving.

The next one is charades and Pictionary ([ Ссылка ]). So if you're teaching students some Thanksgiving vocabulary, try one of these games. So charades is acting it out and then Pictionary is drawing it. They have to draw that word or phrase or act out that word or phrase and then their teammates have to guess what it is.

The next one is having a potluck. If you teach adults and you can get your hands on a turkey, this is a great thing to do. I've done this a couple times. I've made the turkey at home and then I've got students to do some research and prepare some side dishes.

The next one is comparing and contrasting. So most countries have a Harvest Festival of some kind. In Korea, the example would be Chuseok. So you can have students compare and contrast their Harvest Festival with American or Canadian Thanksgiving and students could also do a bit of research about the differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving as well.

The next one is to do a little craft project. You can look on Pinterest. There are a ton of ideas or look online and then if you don't have a ton of time, you can just print out a turkey picture with like the feathers that are different.

The next ESL thanksgiving activity is flag football, or touch football I guess is the better option. But, teach students a little bit about how football works, some of the plays and then go outside and actually play a little bit of touch football. Students have often never played football before and they love it. It's some hilarious confusion when nobody really knows what they're doing and of course, the teacher should understand the basic rules of football in order to do this activity.

The next TEFL Thanksgiving game for some pure fun and chaos is turkey bowling. So maybe you've seen it on YouTube or you've done it yourself. You have a frozen turkey and then some bowling pins and you just do bowling but it's like the turkey's frozen. It has the wings and the legs and whatever so it's just going all over the place and it's very unpredictable. o you don't necessarily have to have your hands on a frozen turkey but you can find any irregularly shaped object and then decorate it as a turkey and then do some bowling, but of course, show some videos on YouTube so students can kind of get an idea of what you're trying to replicate.

Those are all my ESL Thanksgiving activities. Leave a comment and tell me how you like to celebrate Thanksgiving with your students.

Timestamp
0:00 Intro
0:09 What are you thankful for?
0:35 Charades and Pictionary
0:50 Potluck party
1:33 Comparing and contrasting
1:53 Thanksgiving craft project
2:18 Flag football
2:50 Turkey bowling
3:22 Conclusion

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