Let's Talk About Chinese New Year (A1/A2)-Beginner to Intermediate ESL Listening & Speaking Audio Conversation Lesson

Chinese New Year comes early this year, falling on January 29 instead of February.

My "Let's Talk About Chinese New Year" lesson, which is part of my Seasonal Conversations in English lesson bundle, can help students better understand the traditions of Chinese New Year and learn how to talk about them and introduce them to others. The cover looks super festive:

As always, the lesson starts with a brief one-page introduction to the holiday:

This is followed by a short conversation between two people who discuss foods eaten at Chinese New Year dinner, Chinese New Year traditions, and Chinese New Year activities. The conversation slides all have embedded audio files which can be played by clicking on the blue icon in the top left corner:

There is also a slide with an audio file for the entire conversation:

For beginner-level students, I tend to play the conversation line by line first so they can read along with the attached transcript before listening to the whole conversation, but for more advanced students, I usually play the entire conversation first (without letting them look at the transcript) and then play individual audio files as needed for sentences with more difficult phrases or pronunciations.

The lesson slideset also includes definitions for important phrases as well as additional speaking practice questions:

The lesson slides don't usually take more than 10 minutes to go through, which leaves a lot of time for students to practice their speaking on the Additional Practice questions. For my classes with 6-8 students, I like to break students off into pairs to discuss the questions first before bringing everyone back to go through the questions again together. For classes with 3-4 people, I usually go around the class with each question so everyone gets the opportunity to answer the questions before we break off into free discussions for the last 10 minutes of the lesson.

This lesson contains:

• A 5-page Teacher's Guide (PDF)
• A 28-page lesson slideset (PowerPoint) which includes 11 conversation slides, 6 definition slides, and 3 additional practice slides
• A 2-page printable Student Notes file (PDF) which includes the conversation transcript and one page for taking notes

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