U1 Poster: New Year Around the World
Korea, Spain, and India
Suggested use: after Lessons 4 and 5 (but
can be used after any lesson in the unit,
too)
Time: 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for
extension activities)
The children will:
• Relate their knowledge of New Year to other
New Year celebrations around the world.
• Learn about different New Year customs in
different countries.
Warm Up: before using the poster
• Have children tell you everything they know so far
about New Year.
• Ask the children if they think New Year is the same
or different in other countries. What things are
important? Elicit some key ideas – food and drinks,
parties, music, dance, presents, etc.
Procedure: using the poster
• Show the children the poster. Have them tell you
what they can see. Elicit key vocabulary of objects
that can be seen (grapes, beans, dragon, candles,
family, fireworks). Point to these on the poster and
have the children repeat them.
Asia
• Play the audio and ask the children to say what the
custom is (each year has the name of an animal)
and what countries the custom is from (China,
Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand). Say each date
in the chart and have the children look for the
name of an animal in the chart and repeat. Give
the children 30 seconds to look at the table and
memorize the animal for each year. Then say each
year and have the children say the animal.
• Complete Interactivity 1.
Brazil
• Play the audio. Have the children listen and raise
their hand when they hear places, times, and
activities.
• Complete Interactivity 2.
Level
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Teacher Notes
• Play the audio for Korea, Spain, and India. Have
the children listen and say Stop! when they hear a
reference to food, presents, candles, or places. Stop
the audio each time. Elicit what they heard.
• Complete Interactivity 3.
• Return to the whole poster and ask the children to
tell you as much as they can remember about New
Year customs in different countries.
Fact!
• Play the Fact! audio. Ask the children why they
think the people eat beans for good luck.
• Complete Interactivity 4.
Round Up: after using the poster
• Ask the children to say which custom was the most
interesting/ fun/strange. Then ask them to say
what similarities there are with their own
New Year customs.
Extension Activities
• Whole class: play a review/memory game. Play
the audio again without showing the poster
texts. At key points, stop the audio and ask the
children to remember/predict the next word.
• Whole class: review key vocabulary. Ask the
children to tell you words they remember from
the different celebrations and write them on
the board.
• Pairs: play “Back to the Board” – one child gives
the first letter of a word from the board – the
other (facing away from the board) guesses
what it is.
• Have the children ask their parents or
grandparents about how New Year customs are
different now from when they were young.