Día de los Muertos

CELEBRATIONS

DAY OF THE DEAD

Discuss the Day of the Dead with your students, exploring its connection to family, life and death.

ONE STOP ENGLISH
By Karen Richardson
October 2023

Age: Teenagers/Adults
Level: Pre-intermediate upwards (A2+)
Time: 60 minutes
Activity: In this lesson, students will:

1. read and talk about cultural traditions connected with the dead;
2. find out what their ancestors had in common.

Language focus: vocabulary related to the Day of the Dead
Materials: one copy of the worksheet per student

Procedure:

• CLICK HERE to download the Teacher’s Notes.
• CLICK HERE to download the Student’s Worksheet.

Topics: 1-to-1; A2; adults; advanced; B1; B2; British English; C1; celebrations; CLIL; culture; Day of the Dead; día de los muertos; elementary; ELT; festivals; Geography; group work; Halloween; history; holidays; integrated skills; intermediate; lesson plan; mixed ability; politics; pre-intermediate; printable worksheet; reading; socializing; teaching notes; teenagers; themed resources; travel; up to 30 mins; up to 45 mins; up to 60 mins; upper-intermediate; vocabulary; whole class; young adults

Adapted from: https://www.onestopenglish.com/celebrations/celebrations-day-of-the-dead/556277.article. Accessed on October 13, 2023. One Stop English is a teacher resource site, part of Macmillan Education, one of the world’s leading publishers of English language teaching materials. © Macmillan Education Limited 2023. All rights reserved.