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Bonfire Night: Vocabulary

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UNIT: Reading / Speaking / Listening

TASK: Matching

PURPOSE: Learn vocabulary related to Bonfire Night festival

LEVEL: Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

A basic activity aiming at matching target words with their meaning, description or explanation. This free ESL/EFL worksheet helps students of English learn vocabulary related to Bonfire Night festival also known as Guy Fawkes Night. The task can be used to pre-teach a range of words commonly used in spoken and written texts related to the celebration. Working with lower level students, you might consider using relevant images to prompt understanding.

Check out some illustrations selected by ESOL Worksheets:

Bonfire Night Images

This particular vocabulary worksheet can be used alongside with the following reading worksheet:

Reading About Bonfire Night

You might consider using a grammar worksheet related to the same topic as one of the follow up activities. What about practicing using irregular verbs in sets of sentences about Bonfire Night?

Bonfire Night: Irregular Verbs

Have a look at other ESL/EFL worksheets on this and similar topics under the following categories:

Writing / Festivals

Reading / Festivals

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Reading about Bonfire Night

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UNIT: Reading

TASK: Multiple choice

PURPOSE: Develop reading comprehension

LEVEL: Upper Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

This free worksheet is designed for ESL/EFL classrooms and provides information on the origin and customs of Bonfire Night festival, also known as Guy Fawkes Night. The text is rater long but written at accessible language. The second page of the worksheet provides twelve multiple choice questions in order to check students’ reading comprehension. The answers are provided on a separate page.

The same text and set of questions can be used as a listening activity:

Bonfire Night: Listening

To support these activities, you might consider pre-teaching or recapping target vocabulary, using a corresponding worksheet:

Bonfire Night: Vocabulary

Another supporting activity offered by ESOL Worksheets deals with using irregular verbs:

Bonfire Night: Irregular Verbs

Working on all the activities, mentioned above, students would benefit from having a set of picture prompts available:

Bonfire Night Images

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Bonfire Night: Irregular Verbs

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UNIT: Reading / Writing

TASK: Gap filling

PURPOSE: Practice using forms of irregular verbs

LEVEL: Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

This ESL / EFL worksheet helps develop and improve reading and writing skills by offering learners of English to practice using two forms (Infinitive or Present Simple Tense form and Past Participle or Past Simple Form) of ten commonly used irregular verbs. Each of the verbs is to be used appropriately in a set of three sentences written in Present and Past tenses. The sentences are based around information on Bonfire Night celebration also known as Guy Fawkes Night. The answers are provided on a separate page.

This activity can be used alongside other activities on the same topic.

Consider using irregular verbs cut up cards to pre-teach the target words or to check your learners knowledge in the end of the same lesson or during one of the following lessons as a follow up activity:

Irregular Verbs: Cut Up Cards

Would like to offer your learners more practice on using irregular verbs? Have a look at other similar activities and worksheets on the Irregular Verbs page under Grammar menu: there are many to match ESL / EFL lessons on other topics:

Grammar / Irregular Verbs (page)

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