AUTUMN BUCKET LIST: TEENS

Autumn Bucket List is a ready-to-use A2 English lesson that helps students talk about their autumn plans, wishes, and favourite seasonal activities while practising want to / would like to in meaningful contexts.
Through autumn-themed vocabulary, reading, listening, grammar practice, and personalised speaking activities, students explore different ways to enjoy the season and create their own autumn bucket lists.
The lesson combines practical grammar with communicative activities, encouraging learners to express preferences, discuss plans, and share personal ideas.
Inside the lesson

• Warm-up: Autumn Associations — brainstorming seasonal words and discussing favourite autumn activities
• Reading: Autumn Bucket List — exploring the idea of a seasonal bucket list through a short blog post
• Vocabulary: Autumn Activities — learning useful seasonal expressions and collocations
• Grammar: Want to / Would Like to — understanding and practising affirmative, negative, and question forms
• Speaking: Keep / Change / Add — discussing activities students want to continue, change, or try
• Listening: Alex's Autumn Bucket List — listening for specific information and completing comprehension tasks
• My Perfect Autumn Day — imagining and describing an ideal autumn day
• Final Creative Task: My Autumn Bucket List — creating a personalised bucket list with pictures and explaining choices
• Teacher's notes, lesson stages, listening transcript, and answer key

Students will learn to:

• Talk about autumn activities and seasonal preferences
• Understand and use common autumn vocabulary and collocations
• Use want to / would like to to express wishes and plans
• Make negative statements using don't want to / wouldn't like to
• Ask and answer questions about personal preferences
• Understand the main ideas and details in a short listening activity
• Describe their ideal autumn day
• Create and present their own autumn bucket list
• Explain their choices using simple reasons and examples

Key Vocabulary: bake an apple pie, carve a pumpkin, have a sleepover, read a good book, visit a cosy café, drink hot chocolate, wear cosy sweaters, watch a movie, buy a new blanket, light candles, go for a walk in the forest, take photos of colourful leaves, try a new recipe, learn a new hobby.
Grammar Focus: Want to / Would like to + infinitive for expressing wishes, plans, and preferences, including affirmative and negative forms and questions.
Perfect for

• A2 elementary and pre-intermediate learners
• Teenage English learners
• Autumn-themed English lessons
• One-to-one classes
• Small-group lessons
• Grammar revision and speaking practice
• Seasonal vocabulary development

This 60–75 minute lesson combines clear grammar explanations, seasonal vocabulary, reading and listening comprehension, and creative speaking tasks. Students move from exploring autumn activities to discussing personal preferences and designing their own seasonal bucket lists.
A practical, ready-to-use autumn lesson that helps students use everyday English naturally while talking about their plans, wishes, and favourite seasonal activities.
Topic: Season, Listening