Becoming a Cultural Insider: How Holidays Can Help ESL Students' Acculturation and Language Learning
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Lvovich-Cultural_Insider.html
From Natasha Lvovich, based on experiences teaching low level English to young adults and adults at a U.S. community college.

Dave’s ESL Café, Idea Cookbook, Holidays
http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/sefer.cgi?Holidays:
Ideas for holiday activities in the English language class room.

Holidays Around the World
http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Stu/mippolit/webquest2.html
For this assignment, you and two partners will first answer the 10 questions below, in full (no short answers) . Then complete the analysis section below. Important web links are included in the Resources section.

Holidays in 2003
http://babel.ling.northwestern.edu/~esl/holidays.html
A calendar of holidays at the top of the page, with web sites to visit in the middle, and a list of ideas for ESL instruction at the bottom.

Holidays in the U.S.
http://www.eskimo.com/~cjh/esl/book1/chap2.html
A list of holidays for each month.

Holidays, The Tower of English
http://towerofenglish.com/holidays.html
A list of holiday sites with tasks to complete for each one.

New Year Celebrations Around the World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/webquest032.shtml
Students learn about New Year's celebrations in various countries around the world. Pairs of students select a country and research how people in that country celebrate the New Year.

Self-Study Holidays
http://a4esl.org/q/h/holidays.html
From I-TESL Journal, lots of holiday-related activities for English language learners.

Thanksgiving WebQuest
http://www.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/RW5Thanksgiving.html
A list of holiday sites with tasks to complete for each one, centered around the theme of U.S. Thanksgiving.

Winter Celebrations Webquest
http://aldertrootes.wcpss.net/winterholidays.html
A project for learning about a wide variety of winter holidays around the world.

ESL Web Guide, Holidays
http://www.eslcafe.com/search/Holidays/

The Holiday Zone
http://www.theholidayzone.com/links.html

NETEACH-L, Sites Neteachers Thought Were Cool!
http://www.tesol.net/neteach.cgi?FA=ShowCat&Category=Holidays