Level: B1 and up Time: 30-45 min

ELT Teacher Alert!

This is such a cool idea for the first lesson in the New Year!!!!

Purchase The World in 2021 edition of The Economist. It’s filled with articles that your students will love.

My personal favorite is the Calendar with The Economist selection of events around the world. From 63^rd Grammy Awards and electric SUV race in Senegal, solar and lunar eclipse, all the way to celebration of 30^th anniversary of fall of Soviet Union.

Let your students read the calendar and have a after-reading discussion. Let ss share their opinions on the event that they think is most surprising, interesting, scary, exciting etc.

After that invite ss to write a similar calendar for themselves. Skiing trip in February? Birthay party in March? First barbecue in May? Nothing is certain this year and it makes this writing activity even more fun.

Also… Collect ss’s calendars and read them together at the end of the school year to see how many things actually happened. You never know with the Corona Virus still aroud.