Memorial Day Holiday is coming up in the USA, so here is a lesson you can download and use with your students! We’ve left this one as a Word file, so go ahead and edit and modify as you need to.

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Topic: History of Memorial Day

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Type: Reading and Vocabulary

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Level: Pre-intermediate/Intermediate/Upper-intermediate

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Note to the teacher: This lesson works best with multi-lingual and multi-cultural groups wanting to learn more about the American Holiday. It starts off with a quick quiz about their familiarity with Memorial day. If they don’t have any idea, they get to read about it! The lesson then moves on to students reading a brief history about Memorial day and creating a timeline of events. In the final activity, the students create a poster and share how Memorial day might be celebrated around the world.

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Text adapted from the following sources:

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/holidays/a/memorial.htm

http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/meaning/

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Click on the link below to download:

05 May – Memorial Day seasonal lesson plan and materials

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