Collège Henri Cartan – Cours de vacances(2023)

UNIT 1 : Travel and world tourism

Lesson 1 : Tourism and holidays
Skills : Speaking
Warm up : We are the world (a song).
Lead in activity
- One of your friend defined tourism as a commercial organization and operation of
holidays and visits to places of interest.True or false ?
- Which touristic place do you know apart from Tour Eiffel ?
- Have you ever been in France for holidays ?
Learning context : During their English class, the students of 1ère A of ‘‘College Henri
Cartan’’ are discussing with their teacher, the main tourist attractions in Cote d’Ivoire in
ordr to share information.

Announce of the lesson : In today’s lesson, we will be talking about tourism and
holidays .Therefore , your attention is required.

I. INPUT PHASE

CONTENT

A . Vocabulary : Travel industry – tourist- adventurer- attraction- attractive places

(national park, zoo, high mountain)- fun- holidays- destination- guide – package tour-
Hotel

B . Language function : using the present perfect simple and progressive.

Structures : has/have + verb(PP) or has/have + been + verb(ing)

• I have already visited the mountains in Man.
• My Nigerian pen-friend has not yet gone to Yamoussoukro.
• Have you ever been in Korhogo before ?
• The president has been travelling for many years. I have been studying English since
primary school.
 A- VOCABULARY

Travel industry – tourist - adventurer- attractions - attractive places (national park, zoo,
high mountain)- fun- holidays- destination- guide – package tour- Hotel

Activity 1 : The text below is about tourism and holidays , complete it with the missing
words in the box.

Example : 1- industry

The travel…(1)… is growing fast. By 2015 there were more than one billion international
travellers……(2)….. around the world spend money to visit other countries , to learn about
other cultures and to have…(3).. . Some tourists prefer…(4)… tours , which are organised for
them.They hire…(5).. to show them the tourist…(6)…

Fun – industry – guides – attractions – tourists - package

Solution of the activity :

1- Industry
2- Tourist
3- Fun
4- Package
5- Guides
6- actractions

B- Language function : using the present perfect simple and progressive.

Structures : has/have + verb(PP) or has/have + been + verb(ing)
• I have already visited the mountains in Man.
• My Nigerian pen-friend has not yet gone to Yamoussoukro.
• Have you ever been in Korhogo before ?
The president has been travelling for many years. I have been studying English since
primary school.

Activity 2: the following sentences are about tourism and holidays.Put the verbs
between brackets in present perfect simple or progressive.
Example : 1- have taken
1- Most travelers and holiday-makers a camera with them to take
pictures of everything that interest them. (to take)
2- My children already the White House . (to visit)
3- Millions of people all over the world their holidays travelling. (to
spend)
4- They to France for holidays since 2014. (to come)
5- People by train, by plane, by ship or boat and by car. (to travel)

Solution of the activity :

1- have taken
2- have already visited
3- have been spending
4- have been coming
5- have been travelling

II. PROBLEM SOLVING SITUATION

As the chairman of your English Club, you are invited in Lagos to a summer camp to
present the main touristic attractive places in Côte d’Ivoire in order to invite your Nigerian
friends to come and visit your beautiful country.

1. Say what a touristic attractive place is.

2. Present the main touristic attractive places in Côte d’Ivoire.
3. Invite your friends to come and visit Côte d’Ivoire.