Halloween ESL Lessons
Enjoy our Halloween ESL lessons completely free this October. Have fun learning about Halloween costumes, animals, and traditions. Just try not to scare your younger students too much! Holidays like Halloween are a great time to take a break from your normal classes and have some fun with your English students. These lessons still work on sentence structures, grammar, reading, and comprehension just like all of the lessons in the Going UP ESL Curriculum.
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Beginner Halloween ESL Lesson
The beginner Halloween ESL lesson covers basic vocabulary, face body parts, animal movements (fly/crawl), helping verb can, Halloween costumes, and a short Halloween story with comprehension questions.
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Intermediate Halloween ESL Lesson
The intermediate Halloween ESL lesson covers more advanced vocabulary, face body parts, animal movements (fly/crawl/run/slither), helping verb can, Halloween costumes, and an intermediate level Halloween story with comprehension questions.
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Advanced Thanksgiving/Halloween Lesson
The advanced Halloween ESL lesson and Day of the Dead lesson are part of a bigger unit covering holidays around the world. View the full unit here.
The first lesson covers Thanksgiving, Halloween, nouns ending in -tion/-ation, independent/dependent clauses, simple/compound/complex sentences, and subordinating/coordinating conjunctions. There is a short story about Thanksgiving and Halloween with discussion questions.
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The second lesson covers Day of the Dead, nouns ending in -tion/-ation, independent/dependent clauses, simple/compound/complex sentences, and subordinating/coordinating conjunctions. There is a short story about Day of the Dead with discussion questions.
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Level 6 - Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Lesson
Halloween is an excellent time to dress up for class and be a little more goofy with your ESL students.
Need more Halloween English lessons? Check out some of the best sources we found online:
- ISLCollective – Halloween Worksheets (great for sending as homework!)
- ESL Kids Stuff – Halloween Activities (can be modified to use in online class!)
- ESOL Courses – Halloween Resources (great collection of resources group by level)
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