Vacation

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 3

Vacation

Today we're going to be talking about Vacations. You'll also get to write about your ideal vacation

Do you remember last lesson?

You learned

• how to ask for information in general
• to talk about the future with will 

Tell the students that they will use these wh- questions in today's assignment

Tell the students that one of the items that will be discussed in class is the dream holiday

Then, watch 60 seconds of the video to get them to start thinking about their own dream holiday

If you could go anywhere on vacation, where would you go?

Activate the students by asking them where they would go on vacation if they could go anywhere. Have them fill in the name of the place via the interactive wordweb

Aims for today

By the end of this class:

• You practiced your speaking
• You know how to ask questions about vacation plans;
• You know some words related to vacation;
• You can describe your ideal vacation.

Discuss the aims for today

What will we be doing today?

The handout contains three exercises.

The exercises will also help you prepare for the speaking activity we will do next class.

Introduce the overall assignment for today. Every exercise will be explained in a different slide.

Explain to students that they have to fill in the blanks with the missing words in the box

Explain that they are going to practice their speaking fluency by reading aloud the conversation of exercise one.

Now comes the fun part. Tell the students about the imaginary situation and let them first consider some questions. This is to practice asking questions about travel plans.

Now let the students write down the answers to the questions their partner wrote by swapping their papers. This allows them to write about their vacation plans. Which in turn will also help with the speaking activity of next class

What are we going to do? 

What?	Complete the exercises on the handout
How?	Exercises 1 by yourself Exercises 2 & 3 in pairs of two
Help?	Finger in the air
Time?	30 minutes
Results?	You will share one of the questions that you asked about vacation plans and one of the answers you gave
Done?	Talk to your neighbour about your ideal vacation

Give the handout to the students and walk through the classroom to make sure everybody is working on it. When they get to exercise 2, walk around the classroom and focus on one item when it comes to pronunciation and provide feedback on it

What question did you ask your partner about their planned vacation?

This is a check to see whether we met one of the aims of this class and to check whether the students actually wrote some questions down.

Write down one of the answers that you gave to a question

Have we met our aims for today?

Everyone should: 

• Have practiced their speaking;
• Be able to ask questions about vacation plans;
• now know some words related to vacation;
• Be able to tell someone about their (imaginary) vacation plans.

Remind the students of the aim. One of the aims we checked. The next two aims will also be discussed in the next class. This will be mentioned again.

Sneak peek at our next class....

Inform the students about the speaking activity in the next class