Page 1 - Pre-Intermediate English Course - Teachers Book 2

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