Easter Bingo

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Easter bingo game preview with gap-fill, vocabulary, and matching for Pre-intermediate A2

ESL Easter Game - Vocabulary: Bingo, Gap-fill, Matching - Pair Work

In this rewarding Easter vocabulary game, students play bingo by completing gap-fill sentences with Easter words. You take on the role of the bingo caller. Read a sentence at random from the caller's sheet using the word 'blank' for the missing...

ESL Easter Game - Vocabulary: Bingo, Gap-fill, Matching - Pair Work In this rewarding Easter vocabulary game, students play bingo by completing gap-fill sentences with Easter words. You take on the role of the bingo caller. Read a sentence at random from the caller's sheet using the word 'blank' for the missing Easter word. Students listen and look at the words on their bingo cards to see if they have a word that completes the gap-fill sentence. If they do, they cross it off. The game continues until a student has crossed off four Easter words in a row. When this happens, the student shouts 'Bingo!' and then reads out the Easter words they crossed off. If the words match the sentences that were called out, the student wins the round. Students then continue to see who can cross off all 16 words. Play several rounds, making sure students receive a different bingo card each time. As a variation, students can play the game in groups with students taking turns to be the bingo caller.

Find Someone Who...

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Easter speaking activity preview with gap-fill and question prompts for Pre-intermediate A2

ESL Easter Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice

In this free Easter speaking activity, students ask and answer questions about the Easter holiday. First, students complete gaps with the Easter words shown using each word once. Next, go through the items...

ESL Easter Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Controlled and Freer Practice In this free Easter speaking activity, students ask and answer questions about the Easter holiday. First, students complete gaps with the Easter words shown using each word once. Next, go through the items on the worksheet and elicit the yes/no questions the students need to ask in the activity, e.g. 'Have you ever decorated an Easter egg?' Students then go around the class asking each other the Easter yes/no questions. When a classmate answers 'yes' to a question, the student writes down their name and asks a follow-up question to gain more information, noting down the answer in the last column. If a classmate replies 'no', the student repeats the question with another student or asks a different question. When everyone has finished, students give feedback to the class on what they found out.

Peter's Easter

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Easter story activity preview with ordering, matching, true or false and gap-fill for Pre-intermediate A2

ESL Easter Activity - Vocabulary and Reading Exercises: Ordering, Matching, True or False, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work

Here is an Easter story activity to help students practice vocabulary related to Easter. In pairs, students begin by arranging sentence strips in the correct order...

ESL Easter Activity - Vocabulary and Reading Exercises: Ordering, Matching, True or False, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work Here is an Easter story activity to help students practice vocabulary related to Easter. In pairs, students begin by arranging sentence strips in the correct order to reveal an Easter story. Working alone, students then match Easter words from the story with their definitions. Next, students read statements about the story and mark them as true or false. After that, students complete Easter conversation questions with verbs from a box. Lastly, students ask and answer the questions in pairs.

Easter Crossword

Intermediate (B1) 20 minutes
ESL Easter crossword activity preview with describing and guessing for Intermediate B1

ESL Easter Crossword - Vocabulary Activity: Describing, Guessing - Pair Work

In this useful Easter activity, students complete a crossword by listening to clues and guessing Easter vocabulary. In pairs, students take it in turns to ask their partner for a clue to one of the missing Easter words on their crossword. Their...

ESL Easter Crossword - Vocabulary Activity: Describing, Guessing - Pair Work In this useful Easter activity, students complete a crossword by listening to clues and guessing Easter vocabulary. In pairs, students take it in turns to ask their partner for a clue to one of the missing Easter words on their crossword. Their partner reads out the clue for that Easter word and the other student tries to guess what it is. If the student guesses the word successfully, they write it on their crossword. If not, their partner continues to give more clues until the student is able to guess the word. When the students have finished, they check their spelling by comparing crosswords. To make the activity more competitive, you can have each pair compete against another pair or the whole class to see who can complete the crossword first.

Easter Fact or Fiction?

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Easter game preview with unscrambling, true or false, and guessing for Intermediate B1

ESL Easter Game - Speaking: Unscrambling, True or False, Guessing - Group and Pair Work

In this engaging Easter game, students reorder words to make true or false statements about Easter and then take part in an Easter quiz to see who can correctly guess which statements are true and...

ESL Easter Game - Speaking: Unscrambling, True or False, Guessing - Group and Pair Work In this engaging Easter game, students reorder words to make true or false statements about Easter and then take part in an Easter quiz to see who can correctly guess which statements are true and which are false. In two groups, students look at the scrambled sentences on their worksheet and put the words in the correct order to create true or false Easter statements. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group and take it in turns to read the statements to their partner who guesses if they are true or false. For each correct guess, students put a tick. The student with the most correct guesses at the end of the game wins.

What's the Word?

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Easter crossword activity preview with writing clues, describing and guessing for Intermediate B1

ESL Easter Activity - Vocabulary: Crossword, Writing Clues, Describing, Guessing - Pair Work

In this enjoyable Easter vocabulary activity, students complete a crossword by describing and guessing words related to Easter. In two groups, students invent and write down clues for the Easter words shown...

ESL Easter Activity - Vocabulary: Crossword, Writing Clues, Describing, Guessing - Pair Work In this enjoyable Easter vocabulary activity, students complete a crossword by describing and guessing words related to Easter. In two groups, students invent and write down clues for the Easter words shown on their crossword. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group and take it in turns to ask their partner for a clue to one of their missing Easter words. Their partner reads out the clue and the other student tries to guess the word. If the student guesses the Easter word successfully, they write it on their crossword. If not, their partner continues to give more clues until the student is able to guess the word.

An Eggcellent Easter

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Easter activity preview with word search, gap-fill, matching and sentence completion for Upper-intermediate B2

ESL Easter Activity - Vocabulary: Word Search, Gap-fill, Matching, Sentence Completion - Pair Work

This productive Easter activity helps students practice vocabulary related to Easter. Working alone, students begin by finding eight words related to Easter in a word search. Next, Student A reads the beginning...

ESL Easter Activity - Vocabulary: Word Search, Gap-fill, Matching, Sentence Completion - Pair Work This productive Easter activity helps students practice vocabulary related to Easter. Working alone, students begin by finding eight words related to Easter in a word search. Next, Student A reads the beginning of their first Easter sentence to Student B, who listens and chooses a suitable ending from their worksheet, starting with an Easter word from their word search. Student B then reads out the second part of the sentence along with the Easter word. If Student A agrees it's correct, they write the ending down. If not, Student B reads other possible endings to find the right one. When Student A has completed all their sentences, the two students swap roles. Afterwards, review the correct answers and vocabulary with the class.

Easter Vocabulary Challenge

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
ESL Easter board game and worksheet preview with unscrambling, matching, discussion and gap-fill for Upper-intermediate B2

ESL Easter Board Game and Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Unscrambling, Matching - Speaking Activity: Discussion - Pair Work - Vocabulary Game: Gap-fill

Here is a fun Easter board game and worksheet to help students practice vocabulary related to Easter. First, students complete an Easter...

ESL Easter Board Game and Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Unscrambling, Matching - Speaking Activity: Discussion - Pair Work - Vocabulary Game: Gap-fill - Group Work Here is a fun Easter board game and worksheet to help students practice vocabulary related to Easter. First, students complete an Easter worksheet. Students begin by unscrambling words related to Easter. Next, students match verbs with the correct endings to create Easter collocations. In pairs, students then ask and answer three questions related to Easter. After that, students play a board game in competing teams of two where they try to claim as many squares as they can by completing sentences with Easter vocabulary from the worksheet. If a team rolls an odd number, they try to complete an odd-numbered sentence. If a team rolls an even number, they try to complete an even-numbered sentence. The team with the most squares at the end of the game wins.

Using Easter Vocabulary

Easter vocabulary includes the words and phrases used to describe Easter traditions, objects and celebrations. Learning phrases such as 'decorate eggs' and 'go on an egg hunt' helps students explain what people do, rather than simply name things associated with the holiday.

This page has eight resources across A2, B1 and B2, including bingo, crosswords, speaking activities and a board game, with one free download.

The table shows useful Easter words and phrases in short sentences.

Word or phraseMeaning or useExample
Easter egg An egg decorated or given as a gift at Easter, including one made of chocolate 'She gave me a chocolate Easter egg.'
egg hunt An activity in which people look for hidden eggs 'The children went on an egg hunt.'
decorate eggs Add colours or patterns to eggs 'We decorated eggs with blue and yellow paint.'
Easter Sunday The Sunday on which Easter is celebrated 'We are visiting our cousins on Easter Sunday.'

How to Use Easter Vocabulary

Describe customs accurately: Say who follows a tradition instead of presenting it as something everyone does, as in 'Some families decorate eggs at Easter.'

Ask without assuming: Give classmates room to describe their own experiences, including not celebrating the holiday, with a question such as 'Do you celebrate Easter?'

Explain unfamiliar words: Add a short explanation when a listener may not recognise a custom, as in 'An egg hunt is a game where people look for hidden eggs.'

3-Step Framework for Teaching Easter Vocabulary

1. Establish Meaning in Context: Start with an Easter story that students reconstruct by putting sentence strips in order. Matching words from the story to their definitions then checks understanding before students need to recall the vocabulary themselves.

2. Practice Recognising Words in Sentences: Read gap-fill sentences aloud, saying 'blank' for the missing Easter word. Students identify and cross off the matching word on a bingo card. This shifts the focus from recognising a word in a story to choosing it from a spoken clue.

3. Use the Vocabulary in Conversation: Move to questions about personal experience, such as 'Have you ever decorated an Easter egg?' Students ask classmates, record a name after a yes answer and ask a follow-up question. They now use the vocabulary to find out something about another person.

Mistakes to Avoid with Easter Vocabulary

Using a plural noun before hunt: In the expression 'egg hunt', egg stays singular even when people look for several eggs. Incorrect: 'We went on an eggs hunt.' Correct: 'We went on an egg hunt.'

Missing capital letters: Easter is the name of a holiday and takes a capital letter; Sunday also starts with a capital. Incorrect: 'We are visiting on easter sunday.' Correct: 'We are visiting on Easter Sunday.'

Common Questions About Teaching Easter Vocabulary

What is a fun game for practicing Easter vocabulary?

The game Easter Fact or Fiction? turns scrambled sentences into a quiz. Students put words in order to make Easter statements, then read them to a partner who guesses whether they are true or false. They record a tick for each correct guess, and the student with the most correct guesses wins.

What is a useful worksheet for teaching Easter vocabulary?

Use the worksheet Easter Vocabulary Challenge to connect Easter words with the verbs used alongside them. Students unscramble vocabulary, match verbs to endings and discuss three Easter questions. They then use the vocabulary in a board game, claiming squares by completing sentences. Odd or even dice rolls determine which sentences they attempt.

What is a good speaking activity for practicing Easter vocabulary?

Writing clues gives students a reason to describe Easter words in the activity What's the Word? Students prepare clues for words on their crossword, then exchange clues with a partner to fill the gaps. When a guess is incorrect, the partner gives more clues until the student identifies the word.

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