A Trip to Madeira
ESL Lesson PlansA Trip to Madeira

A Trip to Madeira

This ESL lesson plan introduces key vocabulary for travel and accommodations while developing reading and speaking skills. Students explore practical tasks like understanding emails, identifying details, and matching events to dates. Engaging discussions, gap-filling exercises, and cultural insights about Madeira make this a fun, interactive lesson for learners at A1/A2 levels.

Skills

  • Can understand short, simple messages on postcards.
  • Can understand basic hotel information.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Warm-up

1. Share your favorite place to visit in the world and what you enjoy most about it. Example: Italy. The food is delicious there. 2. Have you ever rented an apartment on Airbnb or Booking.com? When you rent an apartment for a vacation, what is most important to you? (location, Wi-Fi, bathtub, kitchen, etc.)
2

Discuss the meaning of these words with your teacher.

3

Melissa is going on a trip to Madeira. She rented an apartment on Airbnb. Read the email she got and answer the questions.

4

Look at the brochure with some events that take place in Madeira in June. Match each event with the correct picture in task 5.

5

The pictures:

6

Fill in the gaps in the sentences with the vocabulary from the lesson.

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