Culture & Arts ESL activities

Culture & Arts

What is art? How to talk about culture in the ESL classroom? Should you? Chances are your students have much more to say about this than you might think. Find out with this selection of activities on Culture and Arts to complete or replace your lesson plans and discuss, debate, watch, listen… and most of all have a casual conversation about it in English.

Let’s Talk About… Strange Museums

Activity, Culture & Arts, Intermediate (A2-B1)

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Adorkable ESL Discussion Worksheet

Advanced (B2-C1), Business & Commerce, Culture & Arts, No prep esl discussion

Are you dorkily awkward or adorably real? You may be both – adorkable! Learn about it with this adorkable ESL discussion worksheet.

Making Connections in English: Offensive Band Names and Appropriation (B2-C1)

Advanced (B2-C1), Culture & Arts, General, Lesson Plans, Listening, Politics & Society

Learn functional language of making connections while talking about appropriation in band names from the past and present.

Trendsetters in Fashion: How Did Pink Become a Girly Color?

Advanced (B2-C1), Culture & Arts, Lesson Plans

Talk about trendsetters in fashion with authentic material from Vox. Discuss the history of the color pink and how it became a “girly” color.

Third Conditional Hypothetical Situations: The Achievements of 2021

Activity, Advanced (B2-C1), Conditionals, Culture & Arts, Politics & Society, Science & Technology

Students practice the third conditional by imagining scenarios which would have prevented these achievements from 2021. A great end-of-the-year type activity!