Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Transport & Travel

Present Simple and imperative or modal verbs for giving advice, on the topic of travel in your country.

Transportation and transportation vocabulary in the UK and USA review, starting with a pairwork general knowledge quiz.

Students ask each other typical C2 Proficiency Speaking Part One questions on future transport and travel, the use the question stems to make other future personal questions on common exam topics.

Deciding what to take on your travels countable and uncountable nouns discussion.

Using there is and there are to describe and guess different parts of the world

Similar and different ways of describing how to get somewhere

Pretending to be people related to historic exploration speaking practice

Easy and then more difficult practice of different directions language in the UK and US, including different names for places.

Fun creating a town, office, etc through giving directions game, with useful vocabulary for describing places.

Giving more specific directions practice.

Directions made more memorable, easy to understand and fun through doing actions games, including directions language with similar and different meanings.

How to respond and not to respond in the airport, hotels, taxis, etc.

Transport and travel vocabulary and IELTS Speaking practice

Practising opinions phrases and travel and transport vocabulary speaking, with travel vocabulary word formation and travel vocabulary collocations.

Practising present tenses and writing with consequences

Practising through, over, around etc with a guessing game, with descriptions of places

Describing places with present tenses activities

Air travel processes to practise Present Simple Passive and Past Simple Passive, with useful phrases for describing the steps in a process, so also useful for IELTS Academic Writing Task 1.

Pronouncing numbers, giving advice and travel and tourism vocabulary speaking practice, including students discussing their own real travel suggestions based on typical situations for using numbers.

Minimal pairs practice for travel vocabulary

Rolling a dice to decide which typical exchange related to travel to roleplay, including practice of typical functional language for travellers like requesting.

Contrasting commands and offers from travel staff with please + verb with requests from travellers with can/ could, including the most common phrases to say and hear while travelling.

Staff and travellers phrases listening and speaking practice.

Distance communications related to travel speaking, with useful travel collocations and functional language phrases brainstorming.

Typical travel situations to roleplay, with useful transport and travel collocations in the roleplay situations and then in a joining words together task to test students' memory of the vocabulary.