Planning a tour

Theme: Home, holidays and tourism

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Pre-lesson activities

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Lesson objective

In this lesson you will:

Ø design a city tour
Ø practise adjectives to describe places
Ø recycle vocabulary related to tourist activities
Ø practise the language for asking for, making and responding to recommendations
based on the dialogue in Prepare

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Lead-in

Discuss these questions with your

partner(s):
• How do you prefer to organise your
holidays? Do you book an organised tour /
package holiday or do you prefer to travel
independently? Why?

• What cities have you visited as a tourist?

What did you like about these cities? What
did you dislike?

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Language focus 1
Go to
https://jamboard.google.com/d/1z5Zm0tyLoSgrWq0rL_s7HZai5YLeeRUmX6XrMdVPdPA/e
dit?usp=sharing

and match the collocations that describe typical activities on holidays.

• Which of these do you usually do on city tours?

• Is there anything you have never done?
• Which ones do you like/don’t like doing?

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Language focus 2

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Language focus 2:
Think of 2 cities you have been to that can be described with the words below.
Your partners will try to guess why you wrote this/that city:

It gets really …. here.

It’s a bit ……
It’s really ……
There’s/there are ……….
atmosphere, views.

crowded peaceful
unsafe
modern
spectacular overrated
polluted touristy
cosmopolitan
lively

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Pre-task

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Pre-task

A: So what do you suggest I see first?

B: How about the Eiffel Tower?

A: Hm… I’m not sure about that...It’s so crowded...Wouldn’t it be better to go souvenir

shopping first?

B: That sounds like a good idea but I’d definitely recommend trying
some local cuisine!

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Pre-task

A: So what do you suggest I _____?

B: How about _______?

A: Hm… I’m not sure about that.. Wouldn’t it be better to _______________?

B: That sounds like a good idea. And it’d be good to _________.

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Task

1. Choose a city you talked about during this lesson. Think about reasons why you think it is a good
place for a three-day trip. What would you recommend?

2. Tell your partner about your city and make your recommendations. Your partner will comment
on your recommendations - they might like/not like some of them!

3. Decide where you’d like to go together.

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Feedback

Everything is affordable. It’s really cheap there.

If you want to see nature, you have to leave the city.
It’s a very picturesque city.
Did you visit this city? Have you visited this city?
You really must try the local cuisine.
We also have a lake.

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Review

Have you achieved the lesson objectives?

In this lesson you will:
ü design a city tour
ü practise adjectives to describe places
ü recycle vocabulary related to tourist activities
ü practise the language for asking for, making and responding to recommendations
based on the dialogue in Prepare

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Lesson materials

Make sure you have

• downloaded the *.pdf with this
presentation
• saved the Zoom Chat

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What’s next?

Ø Complete the Prepare and Practise activities. Do them again if you didn’t get 100% right!

Ø Listen to the recordings in Progress and try to repeat the recommendations with the
speakers at the same speed and with the same intonation.

Ø Make your own flashcards using quizlet.com

Ø Review the language rule we have practised today:

https://englishpost.org/give-advice-in-english/

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Teacher’s Notes

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