My Favorite Travel Story
ESL Lesson PlansMy Favorite Travel Story

My Favorite Travel Story

This B1 lesson plan encourages teenage students to share their favorite travel story, practicing narrative tenses and descriptive vocabulary related to traveling. Learners read a sample travel story, then plan and share their own experience using past tense structures and sequencing words. The worksheet includes vocabulary support, comprehension questions, and speaking or writing tasks. This engaging lesson plan works well for teen ESL classes wanting a personal, motivating topic, helping students practice storytelling skills while discussing memorable traveling experiences.

Skills

  • Can describe a travel experience using connected sentences and appropriate sequencing words.
  • Can narrate past events using the past simple, past continuous, and past perfect.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Choose three things that make a travel story interesting. Compare your choices with a partner.

  1. an unexpected problem
  2. a beautiful place
  3. an unusual person
  4. a funny mistake
  5. a dangerous moment
  6. delicious food
  7. a surprising ending
  8. strong emotions
2

Match the words with the definitions.

3

Read the text. Choose the best title.

4

Read the text again and answer the questions.

5

Identify the narrative tenses. Match each sentence with its use.

6

Study the completed sentences. Then cover the sequencing words and try to remember them.

7

Choose a real experience or invent one. Make notes under each heading.