Creating a Travel Guide
ESL Lesson PlansCreating a Travel Guide

Creating a Travel Guide

This ESL lesson plan focuses on speaking, writing, and vocabulary skills. Students will explore the topic of travel guides through a flipped classroom approach, completing tasks such as unscrambling words, analyzing text, and discussing travel preferences. In-class activities include group discussions, reading comprehension, and creating their own travel guide using target vocabulary words. This lesson plan is designed for adult/teen learners at level B2 and aims to enhance their ability to give clear nad detailed descriptions.

Skills

  • Can give clear, detailed descriptions of real or imaginary events and experiences marking the relationship between ideas in clear connected text, and following established conventions of the genre concerned.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

At home: What is a travel guide? Unscramble the words to find out.

1
travelers
Travel
are
recommendations
information
with
to
on
guides
inform
places
factual
other
2

At home: Read the text about travel guide creation. What are the main points to consider?

3

At home: Match the words and phrases highlighted in the text to their definitions.

4

At home: Think of the points you could include in your travel guide.

5

In class: Look at the world map. Choose a country you would like to visit. In pairs, discuss if you would read a travel guide before going there or not and what you would hope to experience there. After a few minutes, share your discussions with the class.

6

In class: In pairs, discuss the following questions.

7

In class: Based on the text you read at home about creating a travel guide, decide whether these pieces of advice are true or false.

8

In class: Look at the travel guide. What is the structure of it? What are the main points included?

9

Work in pairs to choose a place you'd like to visit.

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