Travel and Holidays: Lesson 1

 Lesson 1:

Objectives: To ask and answer questions about holiday plans.

To talk about holiday plans.

What questions do you need to ask to get the following information?

Help: A question word + be + going + verb?

Holiday Destination: Where are you going on Holiday?

Transportation:

Departure date (day of leaving):

Length of stay:

Accommodation (place):

Planned activities:

In pairs complete the missing information:

Student A: click here

Student B: click here

Teacher's lesson plan 

Let's plan a holiday:

Using Tripadvisor, follow the steps below:

Step 1: Where to? Write a holiday destination. Example: London, New York, Madrid.

Step 2: Go Play: Choose three activities. 

Step 3: Go Rest: Choose a hotel

Step 4: Go Eat: Choose a restaurant and a meal/food.

Step 5:  Share your plan in padlet:

My holiday Plan

Example:

Step 1: 

Steps 2 and 3: 

Step 4:   

Helpful Vocabulary:

Types of Accommodation:

> Hotel

> Hostel

>couch surfing (sleeping on someone's couch)

> Camping

> Bed & Breakfast 

Activities

> relax all day

> sport activities: snorkelling; skydiving; skiing

> go out at night

> sailing

> sightseeing

> cultural activities: visiting a museum/park; practising cultural dances

> eating out

> shopping

> souvenir hunting

See your holiday plan here!

Pre-Intermediate Conversation Class

 Pre-Intermediate Conversation Class: September

Select your favourite topics: Topics 

Getting to know you: Snakes and Ladders

Let's play a snakes and ladder board game. You will need a counter and an online dice.

How to play:

• Each player puts his counter on "start here".
• Take it in turns to roll the dice.
• Move your counter forward the number of spaces shown on the dice.
• Ask a player one of the conversation questions below or create your own questions.
• If your counter lands at the bottom of a ladder, you can move up to the top of the ladder.
• If your counter lands on the head of a snake, you must slide down to the bottom of the snake.
• The first player to get to the space that says 'home' is the winner.

Materials:

Print: Snakes and Ladders board

Click: Online Dice 

Online snakes and ladders: online

List of questions for game: Conversation Questions

Find the differences:

Let's Talk about the picture:

Conversation Class: Intermediate

 Intermediate Conversation Class: September

Link to writing interesting topics: Topics

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