Class Level: Intermediate
Lesson type and subject: Speaking and Role-plays- holidays.
Materials: Travel magazines, price list, hand-outs, quiz.
Lesson objective: Students learn new vocabulary and phrases and can converse on subjects to do with holidays and travelling.
Assumptions: Students have good, basic vocabulary including food, weather, clothing from previous lessons.
Anticipated problems and solutions:
1. Will struggle with speaking fluently during some of the conversational topics on the quiz.
2. Demonstrate some examples before splitting the students into pairs. Write down and make corrections after mingle exercise.
1. Students may not know some of the new vocabulary introduced in this lesson.
2. Pre-teach vocabulary during presentation.
1. Confusion over instructions for information-gap role-plays.
2. Clear instructions with a clear example in-front of the class.
Strategy 1: Interaction Patterns T>S S>T S>S
Purpose: To introduce the topic and some new vocabulary. Students are able to express their preferred holidays.
Presentation/warm-up
1. Introduce the topic, begin basic discussion, ask students about holidays. When was your last holiday? Where did you go? How did you get there? Boat, plane, car? Did you do any fun activities? Skiing? Did you stay in a hotel? Write all vocabulary on the board, under four headings- Where? Transport? Activities? Accommodation?
2. Give hand-outs that include some typical vocabulary to students.
3. Instructions: In pairs students have to find an example of a place, accommodation, activity and transport in a travel magazine.
4. Students relay there findings back to the class, quote page numbers.
Strategy 2: Interaction Patterns S>S S>T Timing 15 min.
Purpose: Students use new vocabulary to design questions and practice topical conversation.
1. Instructions: students are to design a short quiz of 5 questions by themselves. The quiz contains questions that are asked by student A to evoke a short conversation with student B. Write some example questions on the board:
How long would you like to go on holiday for?
Are you going somewhere hot or cold? Why?
Which continent would you like to visit?
Will you need to get time off work?
Will you need to book a flight? How much will it cost?
2. Once students have completed their quizzes, clear a space and do a mingle exercise. Allocate a student A and B, for the first round get B’s to put there questions in their pockets and then swap for the second round.
3. After this exercise, everyone is seated, the teacher can ask students what questions they were asked and the answers they gave. Write down any errors on the board and elicit the correct answers from students.
Strategy 3: Interaction Patterns S>S S>T
Purpose: Students demonstrate use of their new vocabulary, gaining fluency through conversation. Better grammatical accuracy.
Information-gap role-plays
1. Instructions: in secret, students make a list of where they want to go, two activities, a type of accommodation and a type of transport.
2. Instructions: students are split into pairs, Student A is a tourist and student B is a booking agent, student A has a budget of £500 and uses their secret list to book their holiday. Student B has the list of prices (see below) relating to the alphabet, so the price is dictated by the letter student A’s request begins with. Example A=£100 B=£50 C=£25. So a cycling activity costs £25. If student A goes over budget after placing 1-5 requests then they need to change their place/activity/accommodation/transport. Do an example in front of the class.
3. Allocate students A and B, give B the price list.
4. Students swap roles after completing the role-play.
5. Feedback to class, did they go over budget? Why?
Student B’s price list:
A £55 I £500 Q £1 Y £20
B £70 J £200 R £200 Z £15
C £100 K £120 S £500
D £150 L £5 T £150
E £60 M £50 U £10
F £10 N £30 V £15
G £50 O £30 W £220
H £40 P £70 X £1
Example: If student A went to Greece on a plane, did hiking and kayaking and stayed in a villa it would cost £295
Lesson type and subject: Speaking and Role-plays- holidays.
Materials: Travel magazines, price list, hand-outs, quiz.
Lesson objective: Students learn new vocabulary and phrases and can converse on subjects to do with holidays and travelling.
Assumptions: Students have good, basic vocabulary including food, weather, clothing from previous lessons.
Anticipated problems and solutions:
1. Will struggle with speaking fluently during some of the conversational topics on the quiz.
2. Demonstrate some examples before splitting the students into pairs. Write down and make corrections after mingle exercise.
1. Students may not know some of the new vocabulary introduced in this lesson.
2. Pre-teach vocabulary during presentation.
1. Confusion over instructions for information-gap role-plays.
2. Clear instructions with a clear example in-front of the class.
Strategy 1: Interaction Patterns T>S S>T S>S
Purpose: To introduce the topic and some new vocabulary. Students are able to express their preferred holidays.
Presentation/warm-up
1. Introduce the topic, begin basic discussion, ask students about holidays. When was your last holiday? Where did you go? How did you get there? Boat, plane, car? Did you do any fun activities? Skiing? Did you stay in a hotel? Write all vocabulary on the board, under four headings- Where? Transport? Activities? Accommodation?
2. Give hand-outs that include some typical vocabulary to students.
3. Instructions: In pairs students have to find an example of a place, accommodation, activity and transport in a travel magazine.
4. Students relay there findings back to the class, quote page numbers.
Strategy 2: Interaction Patterns S>S S>T Timing 15 min.
Purpose: Students use new vocabulary to design questions and practice topical conversation.
1. Instructions: students are to design a short quiz of 5 questions by themselves. The quiz contains questions that are asked by student A to evoke a short conversation with student B. Write some example questions on the board:
How long would you like to go on holiday for?
Are you going somewhere hot or cold? Why?
Which continent would you like to visit?
Will you need to get time off work?
Will you need to book a flight? How much will it cost?
2. Once students have completed their quizzes, clear a space and do a mingle exercise. Allocate a student A and B, for the first round get B’s to put there questions in their pockets and then swap for the second round.
3. After this exercise, everyone is seated, the teacher can ask students what questions they were asked and the answers they gave. Write down any errors on the board and elicit the correct answers from students.
Strategy 3: Interaction Patterns S>S S>T
Purpose: Students demonstrate use of their new vocabulary, gaining fluency through conversation. Better grammatical accuracy.
Information-gap role-plays
1. Instructions: in secret, students make a list of where they want to go, two activities, a type of accommodation and a type of transport.
2. Instructions: students are split into pairs, Student A is a tourist and student B is a booking agent, student A has a budget of £500 and uses their secret list to book their holiday. Student B has the list of prices (see below) relating to the alphabet, so the price is dictated by the letter student A’s request begins with. Example A=£100 B=£50 C=£25. So a cycling activity costs £25. If student A goes over budget after placing 1-5 requests then they need to change their place/activity/accommodation/transport. Do an example in front of the class.
3. Allocate students A and B, give B the price list.
4. Students swap roles after completing the role-play.
5. Feedback to class, did they go over budget? Why?
Student B’s price list:
A £55 I £500 Q £1 Y £20
B £70 J £200 R £200 Z £15
C £100 K £120 S £500
D £150 L £5 T £150
E £60 M £50 U £10
F £10 N £30 V £15
G £50 O £30 W £220
H £40 P £70 X £1
Example: If student A went to Greece on a plane, did hiking and kayaking and stayed in a villa it would cost £295
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