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Topic 16 - Travel Experiences

                                                       -   Develop and use the past perfect simple tense to talk
                                                           about past experiences in a narrative in speaking
                                                           and writing.
                 Aims for today                        -   Use sensory adjectives to tell a descriptive story

                                                           about a holiday.
                                                       -   Identify and use a range of phrasal verbs to talk
                                                           about travel experiences.
                                                    In pairs or in groups students could play the ‘association
                                                    game’ on the theme of travel (e.g. sun cream, beach, sand
                                                    etc.) It could be done as a competition, swapping partners
                 Optional Warmer                    as they go. Alternatively, students in groups are given a time
                                                    limit and they need to come up with an alphabetical list of
                                                    words associated with travel. They are awarded a point if no
                                                    one else has that word.

                 Task                              1

                 Skill                             Speaking

                 Time                              5 mins
                 Teaching Tips
                                                   Allow students some time to discuss the questions and then
                 Assessment
                                                   ask for some examples from the class.


                 Task                              2
                 Skill                             Listening and Writing

                 Time                              25 mins
                                                   Explain that this is a dictation task and students need to write
                                                   down everything that is said. Play the recording and allow
                                                   time for the students to talk about what they heard and
                 Teaching Tips
                                                   reformulate it. Once they have swapped roles and have a
                                                   complete text get them to think about how much they have
                                                   grasped. Doing this by percentage is useful.
                                                   Play or read the whole text at the end again so that students
                                                   can check their own answers. Once they have an accurate
                 Assessment
                                                   account give time for them to answer the questions and then
                                                   feedback.
                                                   Senses underlined in tape script.
                                                   Tape Script

                 Answers                           Every year I like to get away with groups of old school
                                                   friends. I look forward to this more than anything else. Last
                                                   year we went to Greece, which was amazing. I remember
                                                   when I got off the bus and felt the heat on my skin. It was so
                                                   nice as I’d been sat on an air-conditioned bus for hours. I
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