New Holiday lesson series #2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

We're all going on

Agenda Online Students

• Lesson goals - 2 minutes
• Introduction - 8 minutes
• Task - write an email - 12 minutes
• Assignment (Pitch) Q&A - 3 minutes
• Close lesson - 3 minutes

Agenda Students in Class

• Lesson goals - 2 minutes
• Introduction - 8 minutes
• Task - telephone conversation 12 minutes
• Assignment (Pitch) Q&A - 3 minutes
• Close lesson - 3 minutes

Lesson Goals

By the end of this lesson series you can.....

• research a topic and find useful information online
• distinguish between a formal and an informal email
• write a formal email in English to book accommodation
• work together in pairs to have a conversation and answer and ask questions
• record a 1 minute pitch that convincingly promotes why you should visit an English speaking country 

If you were really going on holiday to your chosen country, what would you want to see/do and why?

Motel

Youth hostel

Bed and Breakfast

Holiday park

Hotel

Glamping

Room service

Breakfast

By motorway

Bunk beds

Luxury tent

Spa

Motorhome

North America

United Kingdon

New Zealand

India

South Africa

Australia

Nelson Mandela

Moari people

Hollywood

Big Ben

Boomerang

Safari

Taj Mahal

Choose one country and one city/area in the country.  

As you will work with the person you sit next to in class, be sure to agree on the country/city before you get started on the tasks.

England	Wales	Scotland	Ireland	USA
- London - Bath - Cornwall - Manchester - Liverpool	- Cardiff - Anglesey - Snowdonia	- Edinburgh - Glasgow - Iverness	- Dublin - Galway - Cork - Killarney - Limerick	- Los Angeles - New Orleans - Miami - New York City - Seattle
Canada	New Zealand	Australia	India	South Africa
- Vancouver - Toronto - Montreal - Ottawa - Yukon	- Auckland - Rotorua - Wellington - Wonaka - Queenstown - Milford Sound	- Sydney - Melbourne - Brisbane - Uluru - Cairns - Tasmania	- New Delhi - Jaipur - Goa - Hampi - Mumbai - Udaipur	- Johannesburg - Cape Town - Durban - Garden Route - Kruger National Park

    Now that you have chosen a country and city....

Online Students:  Find a hotel/youth hostel or other accommodation and write an email and include the information in the next slide in your email.

Students in the class:  You will (pretend) to call an uncle who lives in your chosen country.  Follow the script and answer the questions asked (see handout). Remember to record your conversation and hand in the recording.  Make up your own answers!

If you are finished writing your email or recording you telephone conversation, start researching the answers to questions in the  "Holiday research organiser" sheet (see your email)

Online students - Write a formal email to book accommodation 

Can work in groups of two. Include in your email : 

- Dates of stay 

- Type of accommodation and number of rooms you want to book

- Ask the hotel/accommodation to confirm pricing and availability?

- Ask the hotel/accommodation one question about the facilities?

- Ask the hotel/accommodation about an airport transfer or transport options to the hotel?

- Ask the hotel/accommodation about what there is to do when you are there?

Remember to save your work to a shared Google doc so you both have access. Stay in the meet and call the person you normally sit next to in class and work together with that person. Hand your work into Google Classroom.

Working towards a final assignment.....

Over the next three weeks you will work on collecting information about an English speaking country that you will be travelling to on holiday . Each week you also answer a few of the research questions about your chosen country (see next slide).  

You pretend you have now been on holiday and at the end of the lesson series ( before lesson 4) you will need to hand in your final work in the form of a 1 minute pitch about the country and city chosen. Video yourself and include the real answers to at least 4 research questions in your pitch, plus tell me about where you stayed when you were there, what you did, something interesting about the culture and why you wanted to travel to your chosen country. Tell me just enough to convince me to also want to travel there and see it for myself.

If you go on holiday with your family, what type of accommodation do you normally stay in ? Do you like staying there? If yes/no, why?

End of this lesson

Hand in your work (email or recording conversation) in Google Classroom before Friday (all students)

Work on answering the research questions for your chosen country and share the document with me.

Next week we are going to look at your handed in work.