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Learn EnglishELL LinksBasicsHolidays and Birthdays

Holidays and Birthdays

Holidays and Special Days

  1. Celebrations
  2. Special Days
  3. Greeting Cards

Spring Holidays and Special Days

  1. Easter
  2. Earth Day Crossword Puzzle

Winter Holidays and Special Days

    1. Christmas Words
    2. Happy New Year
    3. Signs of Christmas
    4. Christmas Collocations
    5. Valentine’s Day
    6. My Valentine
    7. Valentine’s Day Crossword Puzzle
    8. Pancake Day
    9. Saint Patrick’s Day

Fall Holidays and Special Days

  1. Halloween 1
  2. Halloween 2
  3. Halloween 3
  4. Halloween Fun
  5. Halloween Characters
  6. Thanksgiving Food
  7. Thanksgiving Feast
  8. Thanksgiving Dinner
  9. Mid-Autumn Festival
  10. Mooncakes

          CLB 1-3

          1. Friday the 13th
          2. It’s the Only Earth We’ve got
          3. Earth Day
          4. Mother`s Day
          5. Halloween & Pumpkin Carving
          6. Months and Holidays (American)
          7. Valentine’s Day
          8. Choosing Flowers (Valentine’s Day)
          9. Thanksgiving 2022

          CLB 3-5 Holidays and Special Days

          1. Winter Celebrations 2022
          2. What is your favourite holiday?
          3. Best Holiday
          4. Festival
          5. Winter Celebrations
          6. Summer Solstice in Canada
          7. Winter Solstice in Canada

          CLB 3-5 Birthday

          1. Happy Birthday
          2. Birthdays
          3. Birthday Party

          CLB 3-5 Christmas

          1. A Moose in a Maple Tree (12 Days of Christmas)
          2. Christmas Day in Quebec
          3. Fred’s Gifts (Canada)
          4. Anja’s Gifts (Switzerland)
          5. Christmas Trees
          6. Canadian Santa
          7. Swiss Santa
          8. Sharron’s Christmas
          9. Darren’s Christmas
          10. Giving gifts
          11. The Christmas Season

          CLB 3-5 Thanksgiving

          1. Thanksgiving Potluck
          2. Thanksgiving in Canada vs. the US – funny video
          3. A Dilemma on Thanksgiving
          4. How to Cook a Thanksgiving Meal
          5. Thanksgiving (multi-level)

          CLB 3-5 Halloween

          1. Where are all the children?
          2. Halloween (multi-level)

          CLB 3-5 New Year’s

          1. Chinese New Year
          2. New Year’s Resolutions

          CLB 3-5 Valentine’s Day

          1. Valentine’s Day Around the World
          2. Valentine’s Day

          CLB 3-5 St Patrick’s Day

          1. St Patrick’s Day

          Remembrance Day – Multilevel

          1. Remembrance Day

          Songs

          1. Jingle Bells – Listen and Repeat!
          2. The Twelve Days of Christmas
          3. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
          4. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
          5. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
          6. All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
          7. River
          8. O Canada
          9. William Shatner sings O Canada

          CLB 1-2

          1. Tenth Birthday
          2. Birthday Card
          3. The Birthday Party
          4. The Birthday Cake
          5. Celebrate Earth Day on April 22
          6. Make a simple gift

          CLB 2-3

          1. Special Days and Holidays (Best of the Reader)
          2. Have fun during the holidays
          3. Halloween
          4. Ask Santa
          5. A Christmas Present
          6. Easter Eggs
          7. A Birthday Party – Reading Skills
          8. A Birthday Bike
          9. A Birthday Dress
          10. Turkey Dinner
          11. Stuffing Recipe
          12.  Remembrance Day
          13. Buy a Poppy
          14. Valentine’s Day
          15. April Fools’ Day is fun!
          16. Family Day in BC
          17. Norooz in Canada
          18. Halloween is on October 31
          19. Polar Bear Swim

          CLB 3-5

          1. Who is Queen Victoria?
          2. Argument for a day off
          3. Valentine’s Day
          4. Canadian Holidays
          5. National Aboriginal Day
          6. National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
          7. February is Black History Month
          8. Festival of Eid al-Fitr
          9. BC Day
          10. Happy St. Patrick’s Day
          11. Happy Lunar New Year
          12. What are we remembering on Remembrance Day?
          13. “In Flanders Fields” Poem is 100 Years Old
          14. Unique New Year Traditions all over the world
          15. New Year’s Day
          16. New Year Celebrations Around the World
          17. 5 activities to start your year right
          18. Making your New Year’s resolutions work
          19. Halloween
          20. Five holiday symbols and what they mean
          21. Canadian gift-giving tradition
          22. Christmas Season and Gifts
          23. The Christmas Gift – Part 1
          24. The Christmas Gift – Part 2
          25. History of Halloween
          26. April Fool’s Day
          27. Groundhog Day
          28. St. Patrick’s Day (US)
          29. Canadian Thanksgiving
          30. Get to know Thanksgiving
          31. The Essence of Thanksgiving Day Goes Beyond Turkey
          32. Throw Your First Canadian Thanksgiving
          33. The Story of Santa Claus
          34. What is Christmas?
          35. The Story of Halloween
          36. Why do we celebrate scary stuff on Halloween?
          37. Earth Day
          38. Easter celebrations around the world
          39. Why do we celebrate Victoria Day?
          40. 10 multicultural holiday celebrations
                    1. The Birthday Party (past questions)
                    2. Canadian Holidays
                    3. Holiday Plans (will – future)
                                  1. Holidays
                                  2. Christmas
                                  3. Halloween
                                  4. St. Patrick’s Day
                                  5. Thanksgiving
                                  6. Valentine’s Day
                                  7. Birthdays
                                  8. Easter
                                  9. April Fool’s Day
                                  10. New Year’s Day
                                  11. New Year’s Resolutions
                                                1. Bright Nights at Stanley Park (Interview from 2009)
                                                2. Bright Nights at Stanley Park (Video with music)
                                                3. Vancouver Christmas Market – video
                                                4. Christmas Market Information
                                                5. Gingerbread Lane at the Hyatt (Interview from 2009)
                                                6. Gingerbread Lane at the Hyatt (Pictures from 2008)
                                                7. Christmas Lights in the Lower Mainland
                                                8. Christmas Lights in Vancouver
                                                9. Holidays and Events at Canada Place
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