Christmas gifts - ESL adult holiday conversation English lesson in PPT

This is an ESL holiday adult conversation lesson in PowerPoint format, with worksheets and teacher’s notes.

This conversation lesson discusses Christmas gift-giving. We compare gift buying today and in the past and try to figure out if life today (with technology, the internet, and free 24-hour shipment) makes it easier to buy Christmas gifts, or (with the overload of choice and abundance of lower-quality products) more difficult. Students discuss the giving and receiving of the most common gifts (using the grammar form “likely”). We also look into spending habits, our expectations, and the real reasons (social pressure, guilt, interests, or family obligations…) behind some of the gifts. We end with a discussion about presents for children, what type should we get, how many, and what factors make up parental gift-giving decisions.

*Even if your students don’t celebrate Christmas, this lesson is a great conversation practice in gift-giving and receiving habits. You could easily adapt the conversation to a different holiday involving gift-giving.

This lesson was created for ESL adults but is also suited for high-school students in life skills and psychology classes.

This lesson includes:

♚ Why has Christmas gift-giving become easier/ more difficult in the last decade?

♚ Gift spending comparison

♚ How did Covid 19 and the lockdown gift affect spending decisions last year?

♚ Who do you give Christmas gifts to?

♚What are your (real) reasons for giving?

♚ What is “Conspicuous giving”?

♚ What is an inappropriate Christmas gift?

♚ How do you feel about “Joke” gifts?

♚ What are the most common Christmas gifts?

♚ Christmas gift comparison

♚ Unwanted presents!

♚ Children’s gifts

THIS LESSON ALSO EXISTS IN A GOOGLE SLIDES FORMAT FOR DISTANCE LEARNING.

I hope you and your students enjoy this lesson!

Check out my other holiday lessons:

Staycation for everyone - an ESL adult conversation PPT lesson

Not my holiday - an ESL adult conversation PPT lesson

Tourism - ESL adult power point conversation lesson

Black Friday tactics - ESL adult and kid power-point conversation lesson

Politically correct – holiday edition – ESL adult power point conversation lesson

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Superstitions quiz– a no-prep lesson for ESL adult English conversation

Hospitality ESL adult conversation bundle

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Hospitality - Being a guest – ESL adult cross-culture conversation

Resolutions - make them different this year! - ESL adult conversation lesson

Planning a dream vacation - ESL adult conversation

New year's traditions - ESL adult conversation power-point

Holiday shopping – ESL adult conversation

Halloween – or Samhainophobia?- ESL Adult English conversation power-point

Valentine’s day – love it or dread it? ESL adults culture, conversation

Easter – The ‘irregular verb’ egg hunt

Easter ESL, ELL, EFL adult conversation holiday lessons - culture and tradition

Holiday blues - it creeps up on you… ESL, ELL adult conversation power-point

Thanksgiving – How thankful are you? ESL adult and kids conversation

Christmas A cross-culture, holiday, ESL adult power point lesson

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AUDIENCE This download is appropriate for high school students in Life skills classes, young students of ESL, and adult ESL cultural and conversational classes.

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