Martin Luther King Jr. Day Worksheets (Free PDF)

As an EFL teacher focused on American English, I do my best to educate my students on significant holidays in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is one of such holidays reflecting important historical events that made America an attractive place for anybody who appreciates freedom, equality and the power of law.

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Printable 2023 Calendar with Holidays (Free PDF)

I have recently designed this minimalistic 2023 calendar for myself. I’m going to print it out and hang it on the wall to be able to see major holidays and mark important school dates throughout the year.

My printable calendar features all major US holidays for the year of 2023

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Food and Drinks Vocabulary Posters

There will be a lot of holidays and celebrations till the end of the year. And the best attribute of any holiday is, of course, tasty food. Besides major holidays such as Thanksgiving Day and Christmas, there are also a few celebrations dedicated to food according to my classroom calendar. These are National Sandwich Day on November 3, National Cake Day on November 26, National Cookie Day on December 4, and National Cupcake Day on December 15. We usually talk a lot about food with my students these days and I display my printable food and drinks vocabulary posters on the classroom walls.

Veterans Day Reading Comprehension (Free PDF)

I dedicate at least one lesson to every major American holiday. Even though my students learn English as a foreign language, I believe it is important for students to know more about the culture of the English-speaking countries. And since I focus mostly on American English, the United States’ holidays and celebrations represent a special interest for me as sources of teaching materials. When learning about American holidays, an English learner can pick up vocabulary from all areas of human life. According to my classroom calendar, the next major national holiday in the United States is Veterans Day. And I have some relevant reading comprehension materials to share with my fellow EFL and ESL teachers.

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English Lesson Ideas for October

According to my classroom calendar, there are at least 8 attention worthy holidays and celebrations that EFL/ESL teachers can build their classes around in October. Here are my ideas, suggestions and resources for English classes in October.

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Columbus Day Worksheets and Reading Comprehension

Columbus Day is a prominent holiday in the United States of America that kids who learn English should know about. Since I mostly teach American English to kids who learn English as a foreign language, I do my best to dedicate at least a couple of classes to Columbus Day as it’s important for my students to be aware of American culture and history. For this purpose I have designed the Columbus Day reading comprehension set that includes printable worksheets and a dice game. So, in October, my middle school students are going to learn some US history as well as English vocabulary related to Christopher Columbus and his sea voyage to the New World.

English Lesson Ideas for September

As I wrote in one of my previous blog posts, I had created a printable classroom calendar that features American holidays and celebrations. This calendar helps me plan my English classes. So here are some lesson ideas for September based on the calendar.

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Labor Day Worksheets and Reading Comprehension

My classroom calendar shows that the American Labor Day is on the horizon, so the first half of September would be a great time to talk about this holiday as well as learn new vocabulary related to professions and tools with my middle school and high school students. For this purpose I have designed the printable Labor Day kit for my English classes. The kit includes reading comprehension passages, worksheets, flashcards and vocabulary posters that help students learn more about Labor Day as well as memorize English words related to jobs and tools.

Printable Labor Day worksheets help students memorize vocabulary related to jobs and occupations.

Christmas Vocabulary Posters

This Christmas season I’ll be teaching a lot of new English words related to the holiday to my elementary school students. I’ll be using my Christmas flashcards, dominos and bingo game, word search puzzles, crosswords, matching worksheets, and recently created printable vocabulary posters.

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There are 2 printable Christmas vocabulary posters that I designed to help my elementary school students expand their Christmas-related vocabulary. The posters feature 28 words listed below.

Christmas Vocabulary. List of Words.

Halloween Vocabulary Posters

Halloween will be the highlight of the month in my classroom. We are living through a pretty crazy and scary year, so all those spooky Halloween characters will seem less intimidating than the reality around us. And I’m going to do my best to make my students enjoy this Halloween season. Among other printable resources such as Halloween games, worksheets and flashcards I’ll be using my new printable vocabulary posters

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There are two printable Halloween vocabulary posters I designed to create the necessary atmosphere in my classroom and help kids learn and memorize English words related to Halloween and its traditions. The posters feature 28 illustrated words.

Halloween Vocabulary. List of Words.

Printable Halloween Dominoes. Part 1.

It's one day before Halloween and I keep on sharing my printable worksheets, flashcards and games that I have designed to use for my English classes dedicated to this holiday. Today's post is about my Halloween dominoes. The domino cards feature the same pictures as the Halloween flashcards so teachers can use them to strengthen the Halloween materials that students have been learning during the holiday period.

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The domino game is a part of my printable Halloween kit that contains another game ― Halloween bingo. The kit helps me turn the Halloween season into a fun and productive learning process that helps my students memorize the Halloween vocabulary.

Halloween Worksheets: Word to Picture Matching

Halloween is getting closer, and I continue to share my printable worksheets I designed to be used for my English classes dedicated to this holiday. Today I'd like to publish my word to picture matching worksheets. Those worksheets help students memorize dozens of English words related to Halloween including some spooky characters.

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The word to picture matching worksheets make a part of my ESL Halloween kit that also includes another type of matching worksheets, flashcards, word search and crossword puzzles, dominoes and bingo game. The Halloween kit has five word to picture matching worksheets while this blog posts features only three of them. If you like them, you are welcome to purchase the whole set of printable ESL teaching materials dedicated to Halloween in hi-res printer-friendly PDF files.

Halloween Worksheets: Picture to Word Matching

I keep on sharing my printable worksheets that I designed to use for my English classes during the upcoming Halloween season. The picture to word matching worksheets belong to the Halloween kit that also contains another type of matching worksheets, colorful flashcards, crosswords and word search puzzles as well as printable games (domino and bingo). This set of worksheets, flashcards and games helps young English learners some 30 words related to Halloween and its traditions.

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The Halloween kit contains 7 picture to word matching worksheets. I'd like to share three of them for my fellow EFL and ESL teachers to use for free. If you like them, you are welcome to purchase the whole high resolution PDF-based kit here.

Printable Halloween Crossword Puzzles

I’d like to share three Halloween crossword puzzles that belong to my printable Halloween kit designed to help kids learn and memorize more than 30 words related to the holiday.

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I hope my fellow English teachers will enjoy using these crosswords and other printable worksheets for their classes dedicated to Halloween.

A Halloween crossword featuring the following characters: mummy, zombie, pirate, skeleton, ghost, werewolf, vampire, troll, devil, monster, alien, witch.

Printable Halloween Flashcards: Spooky Characters

I start sharing my collection of printable materials designed to teach Halloween vocabulary with a bunch of colorful flashcards featuring some spooky Halloween characters. The flashcards serve as visual aids to introduce the following vocabulary: alien, devil, Frankenstein’s monster, ghost, monster, mummy, pirate, skeleton, troll, vampire, werewolf, witch, zombie. Although, I call them spooky, I used the cutest images I could get to design the flashcards. So they are great to use for teaching English to children of all ages. Even the youngest won’t be scared, but instead will have fun learning the Halloween characters.

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My Halloween kit includes 39 printable flashcards along with worksheets and games. I will be sharing more printables from this kit in my future blog posts. I hope my fellow EFL and ESL teachers and their students will enjoy using my Halloween flashcards, games and worksheets for their English classes.

Printable Halloween Worksheets, Flashcards and Games

Halloween is the closest major holiday that many English teachers dedicate their lessons to. The uniqueness of this holiday provides not only for a lot of fun activities in the classroom, but also for an opportunity to introduce the vocabulary that educators usually avoid when working with young students. This is when kids can learn some negative connotation albeit useful words such as coffin, cemetery, tombstone and so on. So I decided to design a set of printable flashcards, worksheets and games dedicated to Halloween in order to offer my young students some spooky fun and help them expand their English vocabulary in an uncommon topic.

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Traditionally, my printable kit includes four types of worksheets, a bunch of colorful flashcards and two games. The kit is designed to introduce more than 30 words related to the celebration of Halloween. The full vocabulary includes the following words: alien, bat, black cat, bones, candy, cauldron, cemetery/graveyard, coffin, costume, devil/demon, Frankenstein's monster, ghost, gravestone/tombstone, haunted house, jack-o'-lantern, monster, moon, mummy, owl, pirate, potion, pumpkin, skeleton, skull, spider, spider web, troll, vampire, werewolf, witch, witch’s broom, witch’s hat, zombie.

My printable Halloween kit helps EFL and ESL teachers introduce more than 30 relevant words to young English learners.

Christmas Flashcards. Part 5.

This blog post features the last batch of printable flashcards I designed to help kids memorize the Christmas vocabulary.

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These flashcards introduce some nouns that are featured in other printable teaching materials I created for my Christmas season English classes. My Christmas kit includes a range of activities that an ESL teacher can engage students with to help them learn more about one of the biggest holidays in the English-speaking world. Flashcards can be a fun way to make the first steps in introducing the vocabulary that can further be consolidated with the help of my printable Christmas worksheets (crosswords, word search puzzles, picture to word matching) and games (dominoes and bingo).

ESL Christmas Bingo Game

I have designed printable 5-by-5 grid cards for the Christmas bingo game that ESL teachers can use to help students consolidate the vocabulary introduced with my Christmas flashcards. This is my second favorite game after dominoes that I often play with kids I teach English to. Bingo is definitely the number one game by how much fun and excitement it can bring to the classroom.

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The Christmas bingo rules are similar to those of traditional bingo. But instead of numbers there are pictures corresponding to words that kids have already learned with the help of my Christmas flashcards, crossword and word search puzzles, word and picture matching worksheets and dominoes game. Just as traditional cards my Christmas bingo card has a free space in the center. The teacher acts as an announcer calling out random words from small word cards that published bellow in this post. Those cards contain 46 English nouns from the Christmas vocabulary. There are a few additional words for synonyms (e.g., Christmas ball - Christmas bauble, gift - present, decoration - ornaments) and British variations of the word “sweater” (pullover, jumper). The goal is to fill a horizontal, vertical or diagonal pattern of five grid spaces on the card. Kids can either use a marker or chips (also published below) to mark the spaces that match the word called out by the teacher. Players can agree to continue playing until someone covers all the pictures on a card (full house).

A printable Christmas bingo card

Christmas Flashcards. Part 4.

Here is another bunch of printable Christmas flashcards designed by me for ESL teachers to introduce the holiday-related vocabulary.

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Educators can use this set of Christmas flashcards as a visual resource to help students start learning about the holiday, its traditions, seasonal food and clothing. Then kids can carry out some tasks of Christmas worksheets I designed for my ESL Christmas kit. Those tasks include crosswords and word search puzzles, word-to-picture and picture-to-word matching. Those worksheets are based on the words featured on this Christmas flashcards set. The final step to consolidate the relevant English vocabulary is playing my Christmas games: dominoes and bingo.

Christmas Worksheets: Matching Pictures to Words

Matching pictures to words is another fun way to help kids memorize English vocabulary. Such printables make a part of my Christmas kit for which I have created a set of worksheets designed for teachers to diversify their classes dedicated to Christmas. I often use the kit during the holiday season. My little students love solving Christmas crosswords, finding words in the word search puzzles, and matching words and images with my picture-to-word and word-to-picture matching worksheets.

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All my Christmas worksheets are based on the vocabulary introduced with a set of printable flashcards. The vocabulary can initially be strengthened with my Christmas dominoes. There is another fun game I designed for the purpose of memorizing and retaining the vocabulary – Christmas bingo. Those printable teaching materials cover some 50 nouns related to modern Christmas traditions, food and seasonal clothing. I hope my colorful games, flashcards and worksheets will help ESL teachers bring more fun into language learning during the most wonderful time of the year.

Christmas worksheet for learning and memorizing the following vocabulary: mistletoe, stocking, pie, poinsettia, sweater, pudding.