The Concept of Changes in Travel

Travel Changes

Unit: Travel and Tourism

Lesson objectives

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Listen and read to understand the details and do the tasks correctly

Refresh the phenomenon of INVERSION

Answer and keep short conversation in pairs/groups

Inversion (revision)

Adverb + Auxiliary verb + Subject

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Lead in

Distribute the following means of travelling:

Train bus or coach car plane bike hitch-hiking

Write 3 things in the chat box. Explain the reason orally.

The cheapest:

The most comfortable:

Your personal favourite? Why?

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Pre- Listening

How was travelling in the past different from travelling now? Consider some of the following:

-speed

-how often people travelled

-means of transport

-where they went and why

Listening

You are going to hear a grandpa telling his granddaughter about his travel experiences,. Decide if the statements 1-5 are true, false or not given.

• The girl describes the weather in Ireland as hot and sunny.
• The grandfather used to like flying.
• At the time of the conversation, there are fast direct trains from Ireland to Spain.
• Grandpa’s mother didn’t have a driving license.
• Air travel has been stopped for environmental reasons.

Post Listening

According to the author of the dialogue, what will travel look like in the future? Complete the sentences with the words from he box.

Bikes Cars. Planes. Transport. Trains.

• _________will no longer be used
• There will be fewer or no ___
• People will use public ______a lot
• There will be high- speed ______across Europe
• _____will also be popular.

Plenary Write a “+” in the chat box if you are satisfied with your listening skills at the lesson. Think about the ways for improvement.

It is READING time

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Read the text about a day trip.

Do the post reading exercise.

Underline words and phrases related to rail travel.

Multiple choice 6 questions.

Pre-reading

Pair/ group work in channels

• Discuss the following questions in pairs/ groups
• Tell others about your pair’s journey

Think about the journeys below. Choose one and tell your partner about it.

• The longest journey you’ve ever made (in km/in hours)
• A very enjoyable journey
• A journey on which something went wrong
• A trip to a place where you didn’t know the language

Sentence Transformation

took

been

was

We spent a long time deciding where to go.

It’s been ages since we last went to Egypt.

It _________to decide where to go

We ______to Egypt for ages .

The sun shone every day.

It ___every day.

able

than

had

I didn’t expect it to be so hot!

It was ____expected!

We could not swim in some parts of the sea.

We _____in some parts of the sea

There was a nice spa centre in the hotel.

The hotel______nice spa centre.

enough

unless

told

‘ pls, take sun lotion with you’ said the guide to us.

Our guide ____sun lotion with us.

If you don’t go to Egypt, you won’t see Pyramids.

You ___you go to Egypt .

The water in the pool was too cold.

The water in the pool___

Plenary

Write in a chat ​

• Something you did well this lesson ​
• Something you would like to recap next lesson ​
• Something you struggled with

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