TP 7 - Travel and Hotels
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide speaking practice in the context of travel and accommodation using superlatives.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide writing practice in preparation for speaking activities.
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To provide clarification of key vocabulary about hotels and accommodation needed for speaking practice.
Procedure (48-60 minutes)
- Show Ss photos of some popular travel destination in Turkey. - Taksim, Bodrum, Antalya, Bozcada Iskile, Izmir, Marmaris... etc. (maybe include a photo of me in Bozcada or Bodrum for further engagement) - Ask a few Ss which place they prefer and why? - Tell your group members which places you have went or would like to go and why. - Hopefully eliciting some superlatives to be used in speaking about their favorite places, "the cheapest, most beautiful, most fun, etc.)
- Tell Ss they will read a text about someone's journey to Istanbul (my own). - Tell Ss to underline the superlatives they find in the text. - Give Ss a short amount of time to read the text. - Provide FB on the WB with Google Slides showing the different superlatives used in the text. - Ask Ss to discuss the story in PW and talk about why I liked visiting Istanbul the most.
- Give Ss a quick matching exercise using photos, with the definition underneath them to clarify/ explain the words that will be needed in one of the upcoming tasks: - Breakfast, dinner, hotel, lunch, meals, single-room, double room, charge.
- Tell Ss they will work in groups to plan a long journey, either in Turkey or to another country. - Tell Ss to make a list of 5 places to visit.. The most beautiful, the cheapest, the most famous, the most fun, the most relaxing, etc. (give them more options) - Prepare to tell the class about your journey as a group... "first we go.. then we visit the oldest/ most famous... in... At night we go to the cheapest/ most expensive hotel, and stay in a double room, have dinner in the most beautiful restaurant... etc". - Bring people from different groups to to other groups, and have them tell eachother about their journey and ask questions like: - "Where do you sleep at night? Where do you go during the day? What do you drink and/or eat?" - Ask Ss which journey is the most interesting and if they want to go on the journey with their classmates. - Tell Ss now they are on their journey and must find a place to stay, so they should call a hotel and ask about the details of the hotel or camping place. - Give everyone a letter of the alphabet, and ask them to remember their letter. -Give Ss cards to show what things they want the hotel to have, or what things the hotel has - Sit Ss back to back, and have them act out a phone call using the details on their card to help them. - Ask Ss to volunteer to act out their roles in front of the class.
(If time permits) - Talk about Ss journeys and hotel exchanges as a WC, or ask students to volunteer to show their dialogue about a hotel.