Travel Vocabulary & Roleplays
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
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.
Lesson Plan Content:
Travel Vocabulary and Roleplays
Choose situations from below and roleplay the whole conversation from beginning to end.
Phoning a hotel – book one double room, one single room and one twin room
Phoning a hotel – change your booking
Phoning a hotel – ask about meeting rooms
In a hotel – ask the doorman if you should take a bus or taxi to the city centre (=
downtown)
In a hotel – you need internet access, so ask the receptionist for the password for the Wi-
Fi
In a hotel – ask the receptionist to recommend where to do some shopping
In a hotel – check out, paying for what you have used in the minibar
In a hotel – phone reception from your room and ask for an alarm call
In a hotel – you arrive before check-in time
In a hotel – you have booked a room, but want to change it a bit when you arrive
In a hotel – you need a room, but haven’t booked one before you arrive
In a hotel – you think you have reserved a room, but the hotel doesn’t have a booking for
you
In a hotel – ask about the details of using the hotel indoor pool
In a hotel – when you try to use your credit card to check out it has already passed its
expiry date
At a railway station – ask another passenger if you are on the right platform for London –
you aren’t
At a railway station – buy a single ticket (= one way ticket) for one person and a return
ticket (= round trip ticket) for the second person
At a railway station – the next train is in ten minutes but that is too soon for you, so buy a
ticket for the one after that
Phoning a travel agent – ask about travelling to Phuket – there aren’t any direct flights
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At an airport – buy some duty free goods, showing your boarding pass
At an airport – check in, asking for an aisle seat
At an airport – when you go through security they find scissors and hand cream in your
hand luggage
At an airport – you are queuing at the check-in desk but your flight leaves in 40 minutes
At an airport – you go to collect your luggage but isn’t on the baggage reclaim carousel
At an airport – you have three pieces of check-in luggage but are only allowed one
At an airport – you hear final call for your flight and rush to your gate
At an airport – you want to take your double bass on the plane as hand luggage when you
check in
At an airport – go through passport control
Before getting into a taxi – ask about using the taxi for a sightseeing tour
In a taxi – you want to go to the business district, but you are not sure exactly where
In a taxi – when you arrive at your destination check which direction to walk from the taxi
to the café in the park, and ask for a receipt
On a plane – the meal includes bacon and you can’t eat pork
On a plane – you can’t fasten your seatbelt
On a plane – you want to watch an in-flight movie but you can’t make the entertainment
system work
Look at the whole list of situations and ask about any vocabulary you aren’t sure of, e.g.
the things in italics above.
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Put the words together to make common collocations related to travel
1. aisle
pass
2. alarm
destination
3. arrive at your
call
4. baggage
reclaim
5. boarding
seat
6. book
a room
7. business
district
8. check
desk
9. check-in
room
10. check-in
out
11. check-in
luggage
12. direct
man
13. do
some shopping
14. door
flight
15. double
goods
16. duty free
time
17. expiry
date
18. fasten
call
19. final
your seatbelt
20. go through
security
21. hand
luggage
22. in-flight
control
23. indoor
access
24. internet
pool
25. meeting
room
26. mini
room
27. passport
movie
28. return
tour
29. sightseeing
ticket
30. single
room
31. single
luggage
32. take
platform
33. the right
a bus
34. three pieces of
ticket
35. twin
bar
Set up similar situations using the vocabulary above and roleplay them.
Set up similar situations connected to hotels, railway stations, airports, and planes.
Brainstorm more vocabulary connected to those places.
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