Airport ABCs
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Airport ABCs

This ESL lesson plan introduces learners to essential airport vocabulary and situations in a 60-minute individual session designed for A1-level teens and adults. Students will practice speaking and reading skills by engaging with dialogues, matching tasks, and sentence completion exercises. The lesson focuses on building confidence in navigating common airport scenarios like finding boarding gates, lost items, and understanding departure information.

Skills

  • Can understand questions and instructions addressed carefully and slowly to him/her and follow short, simple directions.
  • Can act on basic instructions that involve times, locations, numbers, etc.
  • Can take part in a simple conversation of a basic factual nature on a predictable topic.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Study this image. Where do you usually see these signs? Match each icon with its description.

- no smoking - restroom - boarding gates - lost and found - information desk - security check - currency exchange
2

Some words in this picture are missing. Find the right place for each of them.

3

Read the dialogue. What happened to Emily, and what is she looking for?

4

Read the dialogue again. Choose the right answer to each question.

5

Read and complete the sentences with the words from the list.

6

Make sentences using the following words to describe the airport map.

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