travelling lesson #1

Lesson breakdown

Aim: Lexic + geography: Greece

Coursebook: Go Getter 3, Unit 3 p.34

Travel

Stage: warming up, eliciting some lexic

Look at the picture and describe what they have on their minds.

Tasya went on, she could describe every picture in those bubbles using her language - surprisingly she managed to put it in her own words - using not a single word from the book! Wow! It was an utterly different language. 

I stopped for a moment. Do I even have to teach her anything? She can express her ideas no problem. Is it a big deal if she says this:

"to spend a night in a tent" - instead of "to go camping"

or "to eat in a restaurant" instead of "to try some local food", 

or: "to ride a bike" instead of "to go cycling" 

or : "to listen to a guide" instead of "to go on a guidd tour" etc.

(Eliciting the target language)

However I listened to her carefully and took the notes. And then I said: There are so many ways to put ideas into the words, let's see if you can make the word combinations for the following verbs:

Stay - Where do people stayon holidays?

stay in the hotel

Visit - What do they visit?

Visit museums, galleries, places of interest

Do - What do people do on holidays? 

do watersports, new kinds of sports like horse riding, surfing, paragliding..

Go - Where do they go?

go sightseeing, hiking, swimming

Read - What do they read?

read books and magazines, guidebooks

Compound nouns: watersports, sightseeing, guidebook (mark the roots)

Stage: Practicing

Role-play a dialogue as if we've just met at the swimming pool area. I asked these questions:

What's your name? Where are you from?

The weather is nice, isn't it? 

How long have you been staying here? Where are you staying? Have you already seen anything special/ visited any places? Have you tried something new? What would you recommend to do?

Stage: Geography

Find Grece, Crete on Google maps.

Let's read a page from a guidebook:

What does this island look like?

What is its shape? Let's say it's like a long fish, shall we?

Does it sretche out from North to South? - No.

Then which way does it stretch?

From the left to the right? Let's say "from East to West". 

What country does it belong? (immediate testing :) - Greece! Right. What is the flag of Greece? - Blue and white, stripy, with a little cross on the top left corner.

Stage: Practicing target language

Take a look at the pictures and describe what you see:

To go on a boat trip, sightseeing, watersports

try local food

Would you like to try some of these octopuses?

no? They are deliscious! I love sea food.

to go on a guided tour, to explore the city

Stage: having fun :)

Let's imagine you are on the skype with your granny but your microphone is dead, you probably dropped it ito the water, so your gran can not hear you and you gonna mime, show what activities you've already had.

(I did my best not to give the right answer right away, just for fun, just to make her play more, show better, more carefully)

Ex 4. (not matching - GUESSing! Open-ended task! Your version. I've covered the part of the exercise with the picture of the castle - in order to make the ex. OPEN-ENDED (freer practice).

Homework

Write to your friend about Anapa. How it is a good place for a holiday?

This is how she performed her writing task (with lots of spelling mistakes - but she is never short of words - which is good! It took her not more than 5 minutes to compose this, isn't she good?