Product Line: Seasonal Conversations in English (A1/A2)-Beginner to Intermediate ESL Listening & Speaking Audio Conversation Lesson

Seasonal Conversations in English are a set of lessons for beginner to intermediate (A1/A2) ESL learners looking to improve their listening and speaking skills while also learning specific vocabulary associated with different holidays. 

I created this lesson bundle to help beginner to intermediate students practice talking about seasonal topics. As such, these lessons are primarily designed to provide speaking practice, so the listening portion of the lessons aren't very long.

Each lesson begins with a brief overview of the holiday:

This is followed by a short conversation between two people discussing three topics associated with the holiday. For example, in "Let's Talk About New Year" (the lesson pictured above), the conversation covers New Year's activities, New Year's resolutions, and new beginnings for the new year.

Students can start by listening to the whole conversation in its entirety. (Conversation transcripts are included in the lesson.)

Each conversation is then broken down sentence by sentence. All conversation slides all have embedded audio files which can be played by clicking on the blue icon in the top left corner.

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.

Each Seasonal Conversations in English lesson contains:

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

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