Even though it is not the time of Halloween, I would like to share with you the materials I have been working on this week. They are closely related to the lesson plan Public Holidays – Halloween I designed with my colleagues, but one of them can be equally used teaching any other public holiday or holidays in English-speaking countries in general. The first document is a warm-up activity that can be used instead of the one we initially planned in our lesson plan, in other words, instead of students brainstorming symbols of Halloween, they would be given cards with names of holidays they need to match to cards with symbols or traditions that represent them. Sometimes the pictures are obvious, sometimes they need to think about what they actually represent to guess the corresponding event. Public holidays we usually deal with more in the lessons are presented in greater number in this Pelmanism activity.

The other document is a mind map of the same topic that is supposed to be the result of the lesson, created and presented at the end by students. I prepared it as an extra material for the lesson plan in order to use it also separately as a teaching and learning aid. You are welcome to used both documents if you find them useful in the future.