WA1X Holiday lesson series #1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Agenda Online Students:

Together:

• Lesson goals - 2 minutes
  
• What is this? - 2 minutes
  

Online:

• Write down 3 things you need to organise when you go on holiday?  And put in order of priority - 3 minutes
  
• Drag and Drop exercise - 3 minutes
  
• Task - write formal email to book accommodation - 12 minutes
  

Online students come back into meet 6 minutes before end of lesson. Stay online!

Together:

• Explain end assignment - 3 minutes
  
• Close lesson - 3 minutes
  

Agenda Students in Class:

Together:

• Lesson goals - 2 minutes
• What is this? - 2 minutes

In Class:

• Discuss and answer questions on the topic of holidays - 6 minutes
• Task - telephone conversation - 12 minutes

Together:

• Explain end assignment - 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
• formulate written questions 
• 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 

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

You are going on holiday.
What do you need to organise?
Put in order of priority

FORMAL

INFORMAL

Yours sincerely

Warmest wishes

Best regards

Dear Mrs. Johnson

Hi Lynne

Yours faithfully

Dear Sir/Madam

FORMAL

INFORMAL

Long sentences

Short sentences

No introduction paragraph

Introduction paragraph

Slang & abbreviations

Closing paragraph

No contractions

Put this email in the correct order.

From [e-mail]

To [e-mail]

Cc / Bcc

Subject Great news!

Hi Jason,

Can you write back to me as soon as possible? The sooner I book, the cheaper my ticket will be.

I hope you’re well!

How have you been? I am fine! Guess what? I have great news to tell you.

I talked to my parents about coming to your Sweet 16 Party. They said it was okay for me to come! I didn’t think they would agree! You live quite far away. My parents said I can go if I can sleep over. I will go by train. I already checked train tickets to get an idea of the costs.

Bye,

Lizzy

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

have 12 minutes to find a hotel/ youth hostel or other accommodation there and....

- Write a formal email directed to the accommodation you find and ask/include the below in your email.

• Greeting, introduction, main part, conclusion and ending (see SB p.88 ex. 4)
• 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 so you can finish as homework if you do not manage to finish it in class. Hand your work in to Google Classroom (all students) before Friday!

Finished writing your email and you have time over....

Look at your Student Book, p. 88 and complete exercise 4 

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 (so 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.  Maximum 2 minutes long. 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.