Some Ideas For Using
Mother’s Day
In Your ESL|EFL|ESOL
Lesson Plans

In preparing ESL/EFL lessons celebratory days are great to incorporate.

Mother’s Day, for example, can be used in a variety of ways depending on the ESL/EFL students or clients: their purpose for studying English, their level, their age, their culture.

Family, Food, Flowers…

For example with beginning level ESL/EFL students Mother’s Day can be used to introduce or review vocabulary relating to family, celebrations, greetings.

For lower level ESL students, think about gift-giving.

• What kind of lexical material do your English language learners need to know and practice?
• Do they want to buy flowers, candy, or another type of gift?
• Do they know the expressions necessary to do that?

Or if they are ESL adults, are they taking Mom and/or the other significant women in their lives out to a restaurant to celebrate their day? Do they need to know how to order, what are the ways food can be prepared? terms for main courses, desserts?

Remembering The Good Times…

For ESL/EFL intermediate students and up who might not be near the mothering women in their lives, perhaps they could write or record funny stories or significant moments from childhood, interview others on their funniest moments with their mothers, grandmothers, aunts or other primary care-giver…

What Are The Ads Saying?

If you want to move away from the personal, you could have your students discuss in a group, and/or record on audio or video their comments about their favorite or funniest commericals for Mother’s Day….

These are just some idea… Do you have any that you would like to share that would help your students learn and use their English language skills on occasions such as Mother’s Day?

And Happy Mother’s Day to all the “mothers” out there!

Enjoy Teaching English!

Eileen