UNIT 3_ALLENDE SANTAMARIA

SESSION 1- 55 MINUTES - INTRODUCTION
1. Students have to look at the pictures and answer these questions: Why do people travel
to these places? What can they do there? Have you been to similar places? (5 minutes)
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2- Geography. True or False? Ask the students to look at the followin sentences and
correct the false ones. (5 minutes)
1. Glasgow is the capital of Scotland
2. 2 The English Channel is between England and France
3. Africa is the largest continent
4. Tower bridge goes over the River Thames.
5. The Altamira Cave is in Asturias
6. The coast of Normandy is in Australia
7. Mt Everest is the smallest mountain in the world
8. Great britain is an island.
3. Look at the pictures. Which picture shows….? (5 minutes)
a)the bank of a river b) a bridge c) a field d) cliffs
4- Which pictures show famous landmarks? Can you name them? ( 5 minutes)
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5. Listening to the following speakers and complete the exercices. (10 minutes)
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/elementary-a2-listening/travellingabroad
5-A. Guess the places where each
Speaker is going to travel.
Speaker A:
The plane is going to _________
Speaker B:
The plane is going to _________
Speaker C:
The plane is going to _________
Speaker D:
5B. Listen again. Fill the gaps with information from
the recording.
1. The 9:25 flight to Rome is delayed by
___________ hours
2. Passengers going to Tokyo should go to boarding
gate_____
3. Passengers going to Athens should go to
boarding gate ______
4. The flight number of the plane going to
Amsterdam is _____. It will leave from gate
________
5. The temperature in New York is _____ ºF
The plane is going to __________
Speaker E:
The plane is going to __________
6. Play the game. Students should talk about the
places they have visited. Show them a world
ball. We will make a circle sitting on the floor.
When they get the ball they have two different
options
a. Close your eyes and point a part of the
ball. Can you guess the continent and
the country where your finger is?
b. Choose a country or city where you have
been. Try to convince your mates to
travel to this country. Give arguments.
Each player should describe a different country
or city in the world they have been to. The person who most people convinvince to visit that
place will win the game (15 minutes)
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7. Students should know there are different kinds of travel that we are going to study
in the following section. As a introduction. Tell them to complete this worksheet.
They should match the pictures to the activities. Rank their travel preferences and
discuss the questions. (10 minutes)
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SESSION 2. VOCABULARY – TRAVEL THE WORLD- TRANSPORTS – 55 MINUTES
1- Ask the students to name some means of transport they remember. Then, they will have
to complete the following worksheet with vocabulary about transports. (10 minutes)
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2- Explain the students the
differences between some
confusing concepts: travel,
voyage, trip, cruise, tour,
expetition and safari. Students
should complete the following
exercises dealing with vocabulary about travelling. (10 minutes)
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3. BY LAND, BY AIR, BY WATER & BY RAIL TRANSPORTS. Students will be placed into
groups of 4 people. They have to create an infographic about land and water
transportation. Here they have the example of air transports. (10 minutes)
https://piktochart.com/
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4. ROLE-PLAYING. Let the
students work in pairs.
They should look at the
following situations and
simulate a dialogue. They
can use connectors and
vocabulary related to the
topic. They and also use
some specific vocabulary
about the airport
environment in order to
enrich their speaking. (10
minutes)
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5. Real life. Students should understand a train timetable or a ticket, to be prepared in case
they travel by train. Ask them to have a look at the following timetable and ticket and
answer the questions. ( 5 minutes)
The ticket is for trains to Oxford
TRUE/FALSE
All trains leave from platform 1. TRUE / FALSE
The first train leaves Oxford at 10:43. TRUE /FALSE
The 10:43 train from Oxford takes 58 minutes to get to London. TRUE/FALSE
You don't have to change trains if you take the 11:01 train. TRUE /FALSE
The 11:16 train from Oxford arrives in London on platform 3. TRUE/FALSE
The ticket is for a single journey only. TRUE/ FALSE
With this ticket you can go to any station in London. TRUE/FALSE
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6- Play the board game. Students will work in pairs. They should role a dice and answer the
questions about transports. This can be a way to motivate them and use the vocabulary
learnt in the unit. (10 minutes)
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SESSION 3- LET’S GO ON HOLLIDAYS- 55 MINUTES
1. BRAINSTORMING. Students have to look for words of the lexical field of holidays
and create a cloud. They can use the app https://wordart.com/. They have some
examples below. We will go to the computer room (15 minutes)
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2- Ask the students the following questions: Do these people travel? Are they
tourists? What kind of tourism do you think they are practising? ( 5 minutes)
3- Different types of tourism. Explain the students that when they go on holidays
they are tourists. There are different types of tourism. They have to read the text
and answer the following questions. (15 minutes)
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4- Students will listen to Rose and Jack talking about holiday plans twice. They have
to check their listening comprehenshion by answering true or false in the following
exercise. https://www.examenglish.com/B1/b1_listening_holidays.htm (5 minutes)
1 Rose and Jack are planning to take a holiday in spring.
true
false
2 Rose and Jack are planning to take a holiday in Greece.
true
false
3 They are planning to stay there for two weeks.
true
false
4 They are planning to go on holiday in May.
true
false
5 Rose prefers staying in cottages to staying in hotels.
true
false
6 They plan to travel around by bus.
true
false
7 The palace apartment does not have enough bedrooms.
true
false
8 The second cottage is not near the town.
true
false
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2. Students will have to create an online TRAVEL GUIDE. They will be divided into 12
groups of 2 people. Each group will have a month of the year. They have to look for
information about best destinations for their month and write a brouchure (one
page) like the ones that appear in the catalogues of the travel agencies. Talk about
the weather forecast at that time of the year, the travel essentials, the kind of
tourism, the most famous landmarks, etc. Ideas here
https://www.globotreks.com/tips/best-places-visit-each-month-year/ (20 minutes)
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SESSION 4- PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINOUS
1. Remember the students quickly the rules of the past simple and past continous.
2. Write a story. Students will
work in groups of 4. The
teacher will give them the
following worksheet with
pictures. They have to invent a
story about a travel. Tell them
to use regular and irregular
verbs and narrative conectors.
They will be given a list of the
most frequent irregular verbs
and a list of connectors they
can use to enrich their writing.
(10 minutes)
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2- Once the students have practised the regular and irregular past verbs they should
complete the following crossword with the past simple of the verbs to get the
password. (10 minutes)
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3. Explain the student that couchsurfing is another way of travelling. They have to
complete the following text about coachsurfing with the correct form of the past
simple (5 minutes)
BE A COUCHSURFER!
The website couchsufring.org _____ (be) created on 2004. Here’s how it works. Patrick, and
experienced traveler, was planning a trip to Italy. He _____ (not want), do he _______ (decide) to
try couchsurfing.org. On the website he ______ (list) the cities he was planning to see and Italians
____ (offer) him accommodation ( on their couches) for free!. Now he’s near the end of his journey
and he has stayed with five different people so far. They ____(show) him what their lives
______(be) like and have introduced to their friends as well. This hasn’t been an ordinary tour he
wrote from Rome. I ____(never meet) so many fascinating people! Since the website started, over
1.5 million people _____(become) couch surfers. Would you like to join them?
4. Ask the students to read the story about Murphy, the travelling gnome and choose
the correct answer from the choices below. (10 minutes)
MURPHY, THE TRAVELLING
GNOME
At the moment, Murphy, a garden gnome, ____ in the garden of his
Gloucester home. Murphy ______ like an ordinary gnome, but he’s actually
very special. He _____ to 12 different countries and has had _____
adventures. He even broke his feet while he _____ down a mountain. The
story _____ last year. One day, Murphy’s owner, grandmother Eve Stuart-
Kelso, ____ that Murphy was gone. Seven months later, she ____ shocked
to find him standing in the garden again- with a beautiful photo album. The
album had _____ pictures of Murphy travelling all over the world. “This is
_____ thing that I have A ever seen, thought B Eve. Several weeks C later, 23-
year-old student Simon Randles _____ to stealing Murphy and taking him
round the world. Fortunately, Eve has got a good sense of humor, but she
has made Simon promise that he ____ any tricks like that in the future!
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1 IS STANDING STANDS WAS STANDING
2 IS LOOKING LOOKS HAS LOOKED
3 WAS WILL BE HAS BEEN
4 MUCH A LOT OF ANY
5 RAPPELLED IS RAPPELLING WAS
RAPPELLING
6 HAS BEGUN BEGINS BEGAN
7 WAS NOTICING NOTICED HAS NOTICED
8 WILL BE WAS HAS BEEN
9 MANY MUCH ANY
10 THE STRANGEST THE STRANGER STRANGE
11 HAS ADMITTED WAS
ADMITED
ADMITTING
12 HASN’T PLAYED DOESN’T PLAY WON’T PLAY
5. Students have to complete each postcard with the correct form of the past simple
or past continous. Then match each postcard to the country it came from (10
minutes)
This _____ a great week. We ____ all sorts of
interesting places. However, yesterday when we
_____ it _________
I have always wanted to see the Alps and here I am. We
____ skiing this morning because it was too stomy. For
this reason we _____ the whole morning and _____ hot
chocolate instead
Have you ever gone shopping in a bazaar?
It’s amazing! I _______ presents for my
friends but although I ______ some
present for Julie, I ______ anything. We
are leaving Instambul tomorrow.
I have never enjoyed a holiday so much. Yesterday,
we ____ and _____ on the beach all day. This is a
tropical island so it’s warm , and luckily it _____
since we _______
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Students play bingo by listening to the infinitive form of irregular verbs
and matching them to past simple irregular verbs. Each student is given a
bingo card. The teacher calls out the infinitive form of irregular verbs from
the caller's sheet in a random order. If the students have the past simple
form of the verb on their card, they cross it off. When a student has
crossed off all nine verbs, he or she shouts 'Bingo'. When a student
shouts 'Bingo', the student reads out the nine irregular verbs, saying both
the infinitive and past simple forms. If the verbs are correct, the student
wins the round. Several rounds are played with students receiving a
different bingo card each time. (10 minutes)
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SESSION 5- TYPES OF ACCOMODATION WHEN YOU TRAVEL
1. Where do you usually stay when you go on holiday? Make a list of all the
different types of tourist accommodation you can think of. Tell the students to read
the text about the different types of accomodation and fill the gaps. (10 minutes)
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2. Provide the students with the following worksheet. They will have to complete it
with vocabulary about hotels. (10 minutes)
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3. Students should imagine they have gone to a hotel and they have had different
problems. Ask them to work in pairs. They have some examples of ways of
complaining and making suggestions about a problem. (15 minutes)
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4- Read the story quickly and find the answers to the writer’s questions. (10
minutes)
1- What did you see in the room?
2- You walked forward and looked behind the curtain and found something. What
was it?
3- You heard a noise. What did you think it was? What did you do?
4- You looked down into your hands. What did you see?
I was standing in the doorway of a large room. I didn’t know where I was or how I had
got here. It was a large empty room. There was hardly anything in it – no chairs, no
tables, no cupboards.
The only piece of furniture was a large mirror. It was broken and there was glass all over
the floor. At the far end of the room was a window. . There was a curtain across it.
I decided to open the curtains to let more light into the room, but when I got there my
foot kicked against something hard on the floor. I looked down and saw a foot sticking
out from under the curtains. It was then that I noticed the blood- it was everywhere.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of police cars. There must have been hundreds of them. I
panicked but I didn’t know why. I hadn’t know anything wrong.
Then I looked down at my hand and I saw it- the knife at my hands and I saw it- the
knife, its shiny blade dripping with blood…
5- Now, think of four questions to help you write a new story or continue this one
(write an alibi). Swap your questions with a partnet. Answer their questions and use
them to develop a story. Write 120-180 words. Use the past simple and continous.
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5- Imagine you have a booking at a hotel in London. You have lost your mobile phone
and you just have a map of the london underground. Ask your partner for directions.
The students will understand the importance of using maps and ask and give
directions. (10 minutes)
- Which line connects Green park and Picadilly circus?
- How many stops is it from Queensway to Holborn on the Central line?
- Hhow many lines stop at South Kensington?
- Why do you think the yellow line is called the Circle line?
Jim and Brenda are at Baker Street station. Llook at the map in Exercise 5 and
complete the dialogue below.
Jim: Excuse me. How do I get to Knightsbridge?
Brenda: The best way is to take the _____ line to Green Park. That’s the station after
_____. Then change to the _____ Lline.
Jim: How many stops is it from Green Park?
Brenda: Only ______ stops. You can’t go wrong
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Jim: Great, thanks a lot.
SESSION 6- MISTERIOUS PLACES
1.Ask the students to read the text about misterious places to visit and answer the
questions. (15 minutes)
There are some man-made places in the world that are very mysterious. Here are two very
famous ones
2. THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA, EGYPT
1. STONEHENGE, ENGLAND
The stone ring at Stonehenge is a famous sight
for tourists in Britain. But there are a lot of
questions about it that we can’t answer.
One thing we do know about Stonehenge is
That it was started about 5000 years ago and
completed 3500 years ago. Experts think that
originally there were 30 stones, but only 17
remain standing.
The main thing that we don’t know about
Stonehenge is why it was put there. There are
Many theories- perhaps it was a religious place,
Or it might have been a place for observing the
stars and planets. We don’t know for sure. And
we also don’t know how Stonehenge was built.
Some of the stones came from 200 kilometers
away and some of them weigh 40 tons – a
tremendous wright. It can’t have been easy to
Get these huge stones into an upright position,
But we think that workers must have used ropes
to pull them up. But how did the stones get
There in the first place?
Just outside the huge metropolis of modernday
Cairo, we can see the Great Pyramids of
Giza. Built around 4500 years ago, they have
stood for centuries looking out over the
desert. We know why they were built- they
are enormous tombstones, marking the
burial place of some of the Pharaohs of
ancient Egypt. But there is still some mystery
surrounding them: exactly how were they
built?
The biggest pyramid- which marks the burial
place of the pharaoh Khufu, and is 147
meters high-consists of around two million
blocks of stone. Each one weights around
two tons. The stone was taken from the
ground and transported along the River Nile
to Giza. Then it was carried, cut into blocks
and lifted to build the pyramids. This was an
amazing achievement- even today; it
wouldn’t be easy to do, so it must have been
incredibly difficult then. And who did it’
Some people think the Egyptians might have
used slaves to move the stones, but experts
now believe that it must have been done by
tens of thousands of skilled workers.
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1- Which of the two places is older?
2- What two possible reasons are given for Stonehenge being there?
3- Why were the pyramids built?
4- In what way are the stones used at the two places similar?
2- Students have to read the bibliographies about famous explorers and match
them to the pictures. (10 minutes)
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3. Write a blog entry about a misterious place you have been to? What was different
there? How did you feel? Who did you go with?, etc. You also have to think about an
attractive tittle so that more people read it. You have some inspirational quotes
about traveling below. Add pictures, videos etc to prove that the place was
misterious in order to encourage people to visit it. (15 minutes)
https://www.blogger.com/switchprofile.g?switchProfileSource=2&continue=https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g
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4. Students will be given the following travel bingo. They have to circle the things
they have done. After this, they should move around the class in order to find their
soulmate (someone who has done the same things). (10 minutes)
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5. Pronunciation. Explain the students the differences between the three types of
pronouncing –ed. Listen to the poadcast and complete the worksheet about the
phonics of the verbs in the past simple. ( 5 minutes)
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SESSION 7- REVIEW – 55 MINUTES
1. Students should read the text about travel and tourism, which
includes vocabulary learnt in the unit and complete the vocabulary table with the
correct information. (15 minutes)
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2- Play the pictionary to review transport vocabulary. Students will be divided into
two different groups. One group will draw one of these pictures (with the eyes open
or closed) and the other group has to guess the name of that transport (10 minutes)
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3- Provide the students with this worksheet. They have to complete the song with
the correct form of the past simple. (5 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSMomBtWcY4
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4. QUIZ TIME. Students have to complete the following quiz with the correct forms of the
past simple or past continous. (5 minutes)
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5- Create your dream vacation place! Students start by filling in names on a vacation
island map. They then fill in the blanks of a paragraph that talk about the places and
activities on the Island. There is a speaking activity, and last they create their own
dream destination using all the models and vocabulary they worked with. (15
minutes)
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1- Students have to read the text about travelling and answer the questions (20
minutes)
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2. Students have to Read the text about travel and tourism and complete the
following exercises. Discuss the questions (20 minutes)
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3- Complete the following online travel search information. Imagine there is a
problem with the booking system. Write an email giving them the information in
your trip search. (15 minutes)
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4- Play the game. Divide the students into two groups. One group with draw one of
these hotel facilities in a piece of paper and the other group tries to guess it. (10 min)
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5- Phrasal verbs and idioms
about travel and transport. Ask
the students to work in groups.
Each group will write 3 fill the
gap sentences. They will swap
them to their classmates and try
to complete the exercices. (10
minutes)
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6. Students have to complete the following worksheet with vocabulary about
holidays. (15 minutes)
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7. Cut up a set of strops for each group and place them face down on the table.
Students take it in turns to pick up the strips. Each contains a sentence such as I went
to Egypt and I saw the pyramids. They must communicate the sentence without
saying the underlined words. The students can also ask yes/no questions. (10 min)
8. Look at the picture. You have 3 minutes to remember what the people were doing.
The student who remembers more things wins. (5 minutes)
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9. Give the students the following worksheet. Ask them to wok in pairs. They should
ask and answer the following questions about transport. (10 minutes)
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10. Listen to the famous song by adele: Someone like you. Complete the worksheet
with the correct form of the verbs in the past tense. (10 minutes)
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11. Make a list of pros and cons of being an exchange student.
https://www.groupmap.com/map-templates/pros-and-cons-list/ (15 minutes)
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1. Students have to complete the worksheet with the correct form of the past simple
or past continous. (10 minutes)
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2. Students have to read the text and complete with the correct form of the past
simple or continous. (10 minutes)
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3- Students have to practice the past irregular verbs filling the following worksheet
and answering these questions. (10 minutes)
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4- Students have to order the words studied in this unit to complete the sentence.
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5- Students should match the vocabulary with the sentences.
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6- Tell the students to read the text about Edinburgh. Ask them to answer the
true/false questions. (10 minutes)
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7- Ask the students to read the following text. Julie tells her experience about her
first Airplane trip. Tell the students to write theirs. Where did they go? Who did they
go with?, etc. (15 minutes)
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8. The teacher will give the students the following worksheet about things
that we do on holidays and they have to move around the class and
complete it with the names of their classmates. Find someone who…?
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9. Listen to the following podcast about people talking about horrifying travel
stories? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89eKNB2Ujw0 Have you ever
experienced something different. Choose one of the stories and explain why you
think it is the most horrifying. (15 minutes)
10. Tell the students to work in groups of
five people and create a kahoot about the
vocabulary we have learnt in this unit.
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