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Top Travel Destinations & Trends (Upper-Intermediate EFL Lesson)

• The reading passage describes the top four countries to visit from the Lonely Planet's 2022 list. It also includes a paragraph on travel trends.
• Speaking activities also include an activity asking students to design an itinerary for a foreign visitor, and two roleplay scenarios.
• All lessons come with warm-up questions, comprehension questions, a vocabulary section, and discussion questions.

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE Travel Lesson Plan (ESL): Warm-up (Pair Work)

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• Do you prefer traveling independently or with a group on an organized tour?

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• Travelling around the World

Answers 1. Flights 2. Accommodations 3. Food 4. Local Transport 5. Activities

How many times have you imagined around-the-world trip and then gave up on your dream because you were sure that you couldn’t possibly afford it? The good news is whether you’d love to see the world on your own with a friend that’s someone special or your entire family it will cost you a lot less than you think. In this episode of graph worthy we will look at various factors affecting your travel cost and how much you need to save to take a year break and travel around the world. Subscribe to us and click on the bell button to be the first to watch our new videos.

When we think about travelling around the world we usually imagine a one-week overseas vacation and simply multiply the cost for our imaginary long-term trip. However, long-term trip costs a lot less per day than your typical vacation plus if you plan smartly you can really reduce the costs.

You’ll need to think about the countries you wish to visit, the accommodations and your mode of transportation how often you move between the locations and your desired tours and activities. Seasonality is a huge factor while considering the overall cost of the around-the-world trip. Prices in a given location can vary wildly depending on the time of the year you’re there.

Flight – If you plan the routes optimally the average flight ticket cost is in the 2500 to 3500 range per person including taxes. Here are some cool apps you can explore to book the cheapest flight tickets. Also to get some cool tips you can check out our other video on flight ticket hacks.

Accommodation is the second most expensive part of your travel. Budget planning your accommodations wisely saves a lot of money overall during long term travel. Most people stay in two or three-star accommodations, hostels or apartment rentals, though, there are exceptions but accommodations in order of least expensive to most expensive are. For our budget, we will plan twenty-five to forty-five dollars per night in inexpensive regions and ninety to a hundred and forty dollars in expensive ones. Check out these applications to find the perfect accommodation in your budget.

Food is the next key parameter of your overall trip budget reducing your restaurant visits and preparing your own meal will save money. You can expect one dollar per meal per person if you are preparing it yourself even at expensive regions. Whereas a typical restaurant visit in an expensive region can go up to ten to thirty dollars.

Local transportation – local commute though a small part of the expense can be a major cost saver if you travel slower and take public transports the cost can come down significantly.

Activities these are things like safaris, monument tours, adventure and activities. These activities can range from five to 200 dollars each depending on the activity and location. Here is a table of actual travel cost breakdown by a traveller who travelled the world for a year. Most travelers who’ve done these trips on an economy budget estimate somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 dollars and for the sake of argument let’s average a comfortable RTW year-long trip at 24,000 which is around 2,000 per month. Taking everything into consideration as you can see around the world trip doesn’t have to cost you a fortune and for many people, it’s cheaper to be on the road than staying at home. If you have enjoyed this informative video check out our other videos on top travel hacks and share your tips on the comments section thanks for watching and don’t forget click subscribe to join us on graph worthy.

Speaker 1 – I’m really excited about going on holiday next Friday. Unfortunately, there’s going to be a bus and Tube strike that day, so I just hope I don’t have to wait too long for a taxi. If I don’t get to Milan until just before take-off, they probably won’t let me on the plane and then I’ll miss my connection in Rome, so I’m really nervous about the whole thing. Even if the flight’s delayed, I still have to check in about an hour beforehand, so I’m going to book a taxi now – just to be on the safe side – and hope the traffic jams aren’t too bad.

Speaker 2 – I’m dreading the journey on the motorway – the forecast isn’t very good for tomorrow. Getting there a bit late doesn’t worry me, but if it’s raining, the roads can be very dangerous. If you have to stop suddenly, you can be in trouble. We could go by train, but we’ve got so much luggage and the trains are always so crowded this time of year. Sally says we should fly, but it’s too expensive, and it takes so long to get to the airport that it’s just not worth the extra money.

Speaker 3 – I’m not really looking forward to crossing the Channel. We were going to take the fast ferry but if the weather’s too bad, they just cancel the crossing. I hate it when they do that. So we’re booked on the slower ferry, but I have to say, it’s not my favourite means of transport. It’s not that I’m afraid of accidents – it’s actually a very safe way to travel. The trouble is I’m not a very good sailor. I get really sick if the crossing’s rough. I’ve tried taking pills but they don’t seem to have any effect.

Speaker 4 – I can’t wait to go on holiday tomorrow. I’m thinking of taking the underground to the terminal. I wanted to take a taxi but the traffic’s so bad at that time of day that I know it would take ages – and it’s very expensive because it’s quite a long journey. I don’t actually mind travelling by underground, but for some reason, something always seems to go wrong for me. I don’t like the long escalators and I always seem to lose my ticket – but luckily not my passport! – before I reach my destination. Maybe I’d be better off going by bus.

Speaker 5 – I’m flying to the USA next week. I do a lot of flying, so it’s not something I panic about. I know some people really aren’t keen on the thought of being on a plane, but not me. No – what really gets me is making sure that I’ve got all the right things in the right places. However hard I try, I always seem to end up with something in my hand luggage I’m not allowed to take on board with me – then there’s all that stress of emptying everything out and feeling bad because you’ve got it all wrong yet again.

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Digital tools and ideas to transform education, 8 engaging esl activities for teaching about travelling.

Engaging ideas and activities revolving about the topic of travelling coming right up!

These are some of the activities I have been doing with my upper-intermediate students. I thought I might share them with you, in case it saves you some time.

I have split the activities into two days as some of the activities in Day 2 require studying the vocabulary introduced in Day 1.

As my students are upper-intermediate, it is not the first time they study this popular topic.  Therefore, to revise some of the words I thought they knew, I used the website Half a crossword. 

Addicted to using technology in my class, as I have confessed time and again, I have used Genial.ly to create some flashcards.  The flashcards were initially used in class and then shared with them to encourage revision outside the walls of the classroom.

The flashcards contain common collocations related to travelling, but some words are missing. Before flipping the card, students try to guess the hidden word(s). The initial letters are provided to make guessing easier for them.

Note: click on the 3 dots to enlarge the presentation.

Think about it: how many pictures are stored on our mobile phones? What could engage students more than talking about what is real for them, about their own experiences, about their own trips?

Ask students to take out their mobile phones and ask them to choose their favourite picture from their last holiday. Allow some minutes for this part. Ask students to work in pairs or threes. Ask them to show the picture to their partners, talking about it and sharing the story behind the picture.  Encourage the use of the collocations in the exercise above.

This “flexible seating” strategy is quickly becoming one of my favourites to pair students with different partners. I explained the strategy here

For this exercise, I sellotaped to the back of the chairs of the classroom the phonetic transcription of the collocations studied in the flashcard activity. This way, I killed two birds with one stone, as the exercise helped me to revise the collocations and ensure they pronounced the words in the correct way.  To transcribe the collocations, I used a website I have been using for years. Check it out here.

Using a presentation with some conversation questions I created on Spark Adobe some years ago, I asked my students to discuss the questions trying to use the collocations studied in Activity 4.

Every two questions, I gathered all the cards containing the collocations, shuffled them and redistributed them. This meant, standing up and finding the matching card with the corresponding pronunciation and then, sitting on that chair and talking to a different student.

Groups of 4 students.  I displayed the first dilemma and asked students to pair up within the group and discuss for some minutes what they would do.  Then, I asked them to share their ideas in their groups and finally, we had a whole-class discussion.

I created some posters using Canva.com and put them on the walls of the classroom. To form groups, I numbered them off and asked all number 1s to form a group, all number 2s to form a group, …etc. This way, I made sure they worked with different students.

Before the class, I put the 5 posters up on the walls of the class. Next to the posters, I also put 3 or 4 cards containing common collocations from Activity 4.

I instructed the groups to choose a poster and discuss the question in the poster, trying to use the vocabulary in the cards.

I did not set a time for each poster, I gave them the freedom to discuss as much as they wanted, but encouraged them to do at least three posters. I dedicated 25 minutes to this activity.

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Thanks, Cristina! You save my day! I’ve been struggling with warm-up activities that I can do with my intermediate students. And you gave me clues about that. Thank you so much!!

Glad you liked them!

Thank you for sharing your ideas. They are really helpful.

Thank you very useful and interesting ESL activities

Thanks. You’ve made my day!

You are amazing) Your work is fantastic! Thank you for sharing. Today you have inspired me to continue working and changing.

Thanks, Olga!!! Glad to have helped you!!

Christina!!! Thanks to your site I make my lessons the best in the world! It is perfect!

My advice?? One app at a time!! Once you master one, start with the next one!

Thanks Cristina for sharing everything… I´m learning to use all these apps to make my classes more interactive.. It’s driving me crazy hahaha… but I made it… I’ve already done a presentation with Adobe Spark and now I’m working on Genially.. uff.. hard work… thankssss

Hi Cristina, I did appreciate your tips. I teach English to Italian young learners, teenagers and adults and I really like the variety of tools you let students use as well as your teaching ideas in connection with technology. Congrats!

Yes. Seeing what other teachers are doing we can get better! Thanks for your comment!

Thank you very much Cristina! I always take inspiration from your lesson plans and I also love the tools that you use. Sharing is the best things that we, as teachers, can do!

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At a crossroads and other travel and transport inspired idioms

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LESSON OVERVIEW

This lesson plan deals with travel and transport idioms. Students get a lot of exercises to discover their meanings and practise them in writing as well as speaking. The worksheet can supplement our lesson plans on travelling which you can find here and here .

FROM THE LITERAL TO FIGURATIVE MEANING

First, students have to complete one exercise on vocabulary related to roads and travelling, however, they focus on the literal meanings of given words and phrases. Then, they have to analyse a picture and try to guess what the idiomatic meaning of the given phrase is. Then, they need to also think of an example of being at a crossroads . Next, students move to idiomatic expressions, read the sentences and decide whether they are true or false. If false, students have to explain what the underlined expressions actually mean. Moreover, students work in pairs and discuss some situations which include the idioms with their partners.

IDIOMS WITH DIFFERENT MEANS OF TRANSPORT

Students start with completing given idioms with different means of transport such as train, boat, car, etc. Of course, they also have meanings of these idioms. The list of idioms in that task includes, e.g. be in the same boat, a sinking ship, be on the gravy train , etc. To put them in practice, students finish some dialogues using the idioms and their own ideas.

The last part of this travel and transport idioms worksheet will help students to practise and remember all idioms from the worksheet. Students work in pairs and choose a card from a stack of cards. Each card has one word on it. They have to improvise a short dialogue using any idiom they remember with that word. The optional version of this task could be a Pictionary style game where students have to try and draw the idiomatic expression and the other classmates guess the idiom (thanks Audrey for the suggestion!).

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to set/ to put something in “train”. Is that correct? Isn’t it “motion”? on slide 12

Nope, not an error. It’s a thing 🙂 See: https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/set-something-in-train https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/put-set-sth-in-train https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/set-something-in-train

How do I get the magnifying glass?

It’s in the slides in the e-lesson plan (slide 23)

I think there is a slight mistake in slide 10. Tell your partner: “when was the last time you were at a crossroads” Should it not read “when the last time you were at a crossroads was” ??? Not sure but if they are are all indirect questions, shouldn’t the first one be too?

Deborah, thank you for your comment! I think you’re right. That should have been an indirect question, but it sounded a bit odd, so we’ve simplified it a bit and changed it to “tell your partner about the last time you were at a crossroads”.

It should read “The last time you were at a crossroads was when”?

No, forget that! Just checked again.

Awesome class. The explanation on how to use the magnifying glass was extremely valuable.

Thanks! Good to hear it helps 🙂

Can you offer more American English lesson plans?

Hi Cris! By default, we follow the British English spelling rules but we often provide vocabulary in both AmE and BrE versions. As you can see, we also often use AmE videos (there’s simply wider choice there) but we rarely do any lessons super-focused on American English. Would you like to see more lessons like that?

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LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

Travel and holidays.

Poziom: Upper-intermediate (B2-C1)

Rodzaj angielskiego: General English

Tagi: travel and leisure types of holiday Vocabulary lesson

Publication date: 2012-03-30

In this lesson, students learn and practise vocabulary related to travel and holidays.

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very useful especially at this time of the season. Also find this type of lesson can also be adapted to students of various levels depending on the kind of vocabulary that they are familiar with. Mariella EFL teacher, Malta

Variety of activities with lots of level of difficulties of words. Can adapt this worksheet to teach vocabs, short sentences then speaking with the last activities. Great resources. Nhung, ESL teacher, Vietnam

Very good lesson, it approaches lots of different vocabulary

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In this lesson, students learn and practice vocabulary related to travel and holidays.

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