Going on holiday

Ewa | Jul 23, 2025Jul 23, 2025

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson about going on holiday are to:

• discuss holiday experiences and travel plans;
• practise functional language for travel situations;
• watch a video on Australia’s highlights.

Students talk about holidays and travel, review holiday-related vocabulary (e.g. bottle of water, camera, tickets) and share their preferences for different holiday types. They watch a video about things to see and do in Australia and discuss what they’d like to experience. Students imagine planning a two-week trip to Australia and explain their travel choices. They also explore tourist problems by discussing photos and identifying common issues and practise useful phrases to ask for help in challenging situations (e.g. Excuse me! Where…?).

WARM-UP AND VIDEO

This lesson about going on holiday starts with a warm-up. Students say how different items in pictures (e.g. luggage, tickets, a map) are related to holidays. At this point, they can do an extra vocabulary task. Students pick cards and describe holiday-related words (e.g. plane, tourist, airport) for their partner to guess. Following that, they partner up, look at holiday situations (e.g. going on holiday to a big city OR going on holiday to a small town) and choose their preference. Students explain why. Moving on, they watch a video about Australia’s highlights. Students say which two they would like to experience the most. Afterwards, they imagine a two-week holiday in Australia. Students answer travel questions (e.g. Who are you going with?) by choosing the options they would prefer the least (e.g. family, colleagues, by myself). Students explain their choice.

FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE AND DISCUSSION

In this part of the lesson about going on holiday, students look at photos of tourists in problematic situations. They discuss tourists’ issues, ideas to solve them and their own experiences. Following that, students look at what some tourists say (e.g. Could you speak more slowly, please?) and explain what problems they might have. Finally, students imagine they are tourists in different situations (e.g. You have lost your passport). They think about who could help them and ask this person for help using phrases to request help and information (e.g. Could I…, please?; Could you…, please?). Students then choose one situation and continue the dialogue in pairs.

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