Opinions on Travel Vocabulary with Collocations
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Practising opinions phrases and travel and transport vocabulary speaking, with travel vocabulary word formation and travel vocabulary collocations.
Lesson Plan Content:
Opinions on travel vocabulary
Choose one of the things below and give your opinion on it (talking about pros and cons, popularity, future predictions, causes, consequences, solutions, etc). Your partner will ask you for more details on your opinions and/ or give their own opinions on the same topic. Discuss as long as you like, then take turns giving opinions on other topics from below.
- (disabled/ wheelchair) access/ accessibility
- Airbnb
- (budget/ no frills/ national carrier) airlines
- (regional/ international/ hub) airports
- (hotel/ free) amenities
- (self-catering/ timeshare) apartments/ flats
- B&Bs
- backpacking/ backpackers/ backpacker hostels
- (hand/ carry-on/ oversize/ check-in/ lost) baggage/ luggage
- baggage reclaim (carousels)
- bargaining/ haggling
- (sandy/ pebbly/ rocky) beaches
- (double/ over-)booking
- border(check/ controls/ guard)s
- (local/ shuttle/ long-distance/ open-topped/ tour/ hop-on-hop-off/ night/ highway) buses
- bus stations/ coach stations
- business class/ first class
- (black/ radio/ shared) cabs/ taxis/ Uber
- cabin crew
- (log) cabins/ (beach) huts
- cable cars/ funiculars/ funicular railways
- camper vans/ caravans
- campsites/ camping/ glamping
- cancellation/ cancellation charges
- (hire/ renta-)car/ driving (on the other side of the road)
- charges/ costs/ fares/ fees/ bills
- check-in (clerk/ desk)
- (late) checkout
- churches/ cathedrals/ mosques/ shrines/ synagogues/ temples
- communication (phrasebooks, interpreters, language apps, etc)
- compensation/ (full/ partial) refunds
- (dealing with/ making) complaints
- (holiday/ thatched) cottages
- (street/ violent) crime (pickpocketing, bag snatching, mugging, etc)
- (Mediterranean/ Caribbean) cruises/ cruise ships
- customs (officer/ inspection/ rules)
- delays
- departure (lounge)/ take off
- duty free (shops/ shopping/ limits)
- eco-tourism (safaris, birdwatching, etc)
- (premium) economy class/ coach (class)
- e-tickets
- (historical) enactments
- (on-board) entertainment (in-flight movies, etc)
- (foreign) exchange (bureaus)
- (car) ferries
- final call
- (budget/ domestic/ international/ connecting/ direct/ indirect) flights
- food poisoning/ dodgy stomachs (Delhi belly, etc)
- fraud (rip offs, false advertising, etc)
- (modern art/ contemporary art) galleries
- guidebooks (Lonely Planet, Rough Guide, etc)
- (tour/ official/ volunteer) guides
- hiking/ trekking
- hitchhiking/ hitchikers
- historic quarters
- holding pattern
- (adventure/ beach/ domestic/ family/ overseas/ public/ winter sun/ package) holidays
- (holiday/ mobile/ second) homes
- homestays/ host families
- (youth) hostels
- (two-star/ three-star/ four-star/ five-star/ luxury/ capsule/ resort) hotels
- (historic/ haunted) houses
- immigration (officers/ policies/ restrictions)
- (health/ travel) insurance
- (avoiding/ recovering from) jet lag
- (forced/ bumpy/ emergency) landing
- (antiques/ fish/ flea/ flower/ farmers/ street/ night/ Sunday) markets
- mini-bar
- (local history/ ethnographical/ science/ natural history/ anthropological) museums
- (construction/ traffic) noise/ noisy
- overcharging
- (royal) palaces
- (Lord Mayor’s/ carnival/ Easter/ gay pride) parade
- (free/ valet) parking
- (amusement/ theme) parks
- pests (bugs such as mosquitoes, etc)
- pilgrims/ pilgrimages/ pilgrimage sites
- (cycle) rickshaws/ tuk tuks
- (single/ double/ twin/ adjoining) rooms
- (ancient/ castle) ruins
- sailing/ yachting
- (aisle/ window) seats
- security (guards/ checks)
- (car/ home/ sea/ travel) sickness
- sightseeing (spots)
- skiing (lodges/ vacations)
- sleeper cars/ couchettes
- souvenirs/ souvenir shops
- (city/ town) squares
- (street/ market/ food) stalls
- street cars/ trams
- subway/ underground/ metro
- summer camps
- (landing/ airport/ resort/ hot springs/ tourist/ visitor) taxes
- (season/ single/ one-way/ return/ round trip/ day return/ contactless) ticket
- time difference
- tipping
- tourist information (counter/ office)
- (guided/ package/ study/ factory/ sightseeing) tours
- tout(ing)
- (bullet/ local/ express/ steam/ commuter/ driverless) trains
- transfers/ stopovers
- travel agents
- traveller’s cheques
- (business/ day) trips
- turbulence
- (business/ free) upgrades
- vaccinations/ jabs/ injections
- (tourist) visas
- waterfronts (riverfronts, canal sides, lakesides, etc)
- (good/ bad/ extreme) weather (forecasts)
- (long/ three-day) weekends (away)
Share two opinions that you agreed on with the class and see if other groups agree.
Ask about any vocabulary above that you don’t understand, doesn’t seem to be connected to travel, etc, working together to make opinions on it each time.
Travel word formation
Each line below has a problem connected to word formation/ parts of speech (prefixes, compound nouns, etc). Find and correct each mistake, using the plural where possible.
- disable access
- budgetary airlines
- non-frills airlines
- national carrying airlines
- hub ports
- free hotel amenables
- self-catered flats
- timeshared apartments
- beds and breakfasts
- backingpacking
- hand luggages
- carrying-on baggage
- losed luggage
- sand beaches
- doubled booking
- overly booking
- locality buses
- shuttling buses
- long-distant buses
- buses stations
- share taxis
- logged cabins
- beached huts
- camp vans
- glamorous camping
- cancel charges
- train fees
- lately checkout
- phrasalbooks
- language applis
- dealing with complains
- thatcher cottages
- violence crime
- pickingpockets
- Carib cruise ships
- depart lounge
- duty freedom limits
- birdswatching
- premier economy class
- on-board entertaining
- in-fly movies
- foreign exchange bureaucrats
- car ferrying
- domesticated flights
- undirect flights
- dodge stomachs
- modernist art galleries
- contemporarily art galleries
- Loneliness Planet
- voluntary guides
- historical quarters
- oversea holidays
- winter sunny holidays
- mobility homes
- secondary homes
- hosting families
- young hostels
- two-starred hotels
- haunting houses
- immigrate officers
- health insurances
- emergence landing
- nature history museums
- trafficking noise
- overlycharging
- royalty palaces
- themed parks
- twinned rooms
- adjoin rooms
- ancient ruined
- travelling sickness
- sightseer spots
- sleeping cars
- time different
- guide tours
- packaged tours
- steamed trains
- businessman trips
- one-day trips
- tourism visas
- extremity weather
- three-days weekends
Check above or as a class.
Travel collocations 1
Without looking above or below, brainstorm as many collocations for the words given as you can by putting words before and/ or after the words which are there. Many collocations not above are also possible.
airlines
airports
amenities
apartments/ flats
baggage/ luggage
beaches
booking
buses
class
cabs/ taxis
cottages
crime
cruise (ship)s
duty free
flights
galleries
holidays
homes
hotels
houses
immigration
insurance
landing
museums
noise
parking
parks
rooms
seats
sickness
squares
tours
trains
trips
upgrades
weather
weekends (away)
Put words below before and after the words above. Some might be able to go in more than one place.
- adjoining
- adventure
- aisle
- amusement
- bad
- beach
- black
- budget
- bullet
- bumpy
- business
- car
- Caribbean
- carry-on
- check-in
- city
- connecting
- construction
- day
- direct
- domestic
- double
- emergency
- ethnography
- express
- family
- first
- forced
- free
- good
- guided
- hand
- haunted
- health
- highway
- historic
- holiday
- home
- hop-on-hop-off
- hotel
- hub
- international
- limits
- local
- local history
- long
- long-distance
- lost
- luxury
- Mediterranean
- mobile
- national carrier
- natural history
- night
- no frills
- officers
- open-topped
- over-
- overseas
- oversize
- package
- pebbly
- policies
- radio
- regional
- restrictions
- rocky
- sandy
- science
- sea
- second
- self-catering
- shared
- shop(ping/s)
- shuttle
- single
- steam
- street
- study
- summer
- thatched
- theme
- three-day
- time share
- tour
- town
- traffic
- travel
- twin
- two-star
- valet
- violent
- window
- winter sun
Travel collocations 2
Join words on the left and right below to make collocations, then check above.
- wheelchair access/ accessibility
- Air BnB
- bed and breakfast
- back cabin
- cabin car
- log charge
- beach crew
- cable hut
- camper packing
- cancellation van
- late check board entertainment
- pick class
- bag cruise (ship)
- Mediterranean/ Caribbean exchange bureau
- eco- flight movie
- (premium) economy out
- e- pocketing
- on snatching
- in- ticket
- foreign tourism
- car charging
- food ferry
- dodgy hostel
- historic lag
- home palace
- youth poisoning
- jet quarter
- over- spot
- royal stay
- sightseeing stomach
- sleeper agent
- street camp
- under car
- summer car
- time difference
- travel front
- tourist front
- water ground
- river side
- canal side
- lake visa
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