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Teaching English for Traveling. Reviews of Hotels, Flights and Vacation Rentals - TripAdvisor. Videos, Pictures, & Reviews From Around Your World. Planning a Vacation. Planapple: an easy, free, complete trip planning tool. TouristEye Planner. TripHub Group Trip Advisor. HOW TO: Plan a Vacation Using Social Media. Vacation is a time to relax, or a time to seek out adventure.

HOW TO: Plan a Vacation Using Social Media

It's a way to let go of your stress and live out your fantasies. That is, if the stress and pain of planning the vacation doesn't kill you first. Whether you want to relax on the beaches of Hawaii, roam the English countryside, or visit the temples of Thailand, you've got to be informed, organized, and ready for what lies ahead. To that end, social and web tools can help. From utilizing wikis for collaborative planning to using social networks to share the YouTube videos you record, social media is a useful partner in experiencing the best vacation possible.

Maps: Tools for Adventure - Adventure Island. ESL survival English Lesson Plans, English for travelers, False beginners. Survival English & Business English: English for travels worksheets, Powerpoint and other lesson plan resources - Students Survival English self-study.

ESL survival English Lesson Plans, English for travelers, False beginners

Theme or Topic Worksheets : Plan your lesson around a theme with ready made pintables. Zero lesson planning time here. Cool!! Practicing English with a Travel Theme. Google + We've created this page about travel to help you practice your English.

Practicing English with a Travel Theme

There are quizzes to test your grammar and vocabulary, discussion forums where you can share your ideas, games, and activities about travel. Activities and Games Clearing Customs: Scrambled Sentences - When you arrive in a new country, you'll have to answer some questions. Try this scrambled sentence game to see how well you'll do on your next international trip. Travel English, Tourism and Study Abroad games/ worksheets. Travel. Many people like to travel during their school breaks or vacations, and these trips might include a visit to a nearby location or a place overseas.

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Listen to the words below and consult a dictionary if you need a definition. Write a sample sentence for each word to learn how it is used in context, as seen in the example. You can use the Internet to find such sentences. [ Other Audio Options: Play RealMedia | Play Window Media ] accommodations baggage boarding pass book a hotel car rental carry-on luggage cruise currency documents (passport, visa) e-ticket (electronic ticket) guidebook hotel inn plane tickets reservation travel agent travel brochure vaccinations youth hostel.

Survival English for Travelers. A Basic EFL Course with lesson plans and activities - By Yoda Schmidt Recently, I was asked to teach a one week course to some EFL students at a college near where I work.

Survival English for Travelers

The course aim was to prepare the students for going to New Zealand for 6 weeks as language exchange students. I was told (and expected) that their level was going to be very low: false beginners, but just barely. Some true beginners in the mix for sure. When I walked into the class, I said a very casual, "How's it going? " Nothing.

A look of relief on their faces as they replied, "Fine. OK. Airport English: Getting Through Customs. Telephone English: Making Plans. Time: 1 hour Focus: T he purpose of this lesson is to give false beginners the skills to call somebody and make plans or make excuses.

Telephone English: Making Plans

T his lesson follows a simple format of an introduction and discussion, followed by a line-up activity. Hotel ESL: Booking a room. Restaurant English: Ordering Food. Time: 1 hour Focus: The purpose of this lesson is to give false beginners the skills to order food in a restaurant.

Restaurant English: Ordering Food

This lesson follows a simple format of an introduction and discussion, followed by a role-play activity. Preparation: The teacher will need to print off and photocopy four sheets: restaurant menus, the waiters' activity sheet, the customers' activity sheet, and the role-play prompts. Hotel Front Desk Xtranormal. Travel Videos - Tripfilms. 10 Websites For Virtual Sightseeing With Travel Videos. Advertisement Whether it is the backpacking thrill seeker or the armchair traveler, the internet is definitely the first place on the itinerary for most.

10 Websites For Virtual Sightseeing With Travel Videos

The rich variety of travel websites cover every conceivable route to reach a destination and seek out its sights. You can start your foray with 10 Travel Websites That Should Be Bookmarked and then cruise through our travel tips. But one little bit is still missing. 10 Travel Websites that should be Bookmarked 10 Travel Websites that should be Bookmarked Read More For a bit of “live” virtual sightseeing, you need travel videos. Before you book your tickets, do some virtual sightseeing with the help of these ten websites. Travelistic When you land on Travelistic.com, the interactive map immediately tells you the number of videos each region has. Help » Mobile. Mobile Here’s what you can do in our mobile apps: 1. Create new maps on the fly 2. Access your existing Tripline maps 3. Find new places and and add to your maps 4. Best of all, the trips you create in the app are automatically saved to the main Tripline site where you can add photos and display your trip in our amazing animated trip player.

Tripline. Tripline. From Barcelona to Ferrol on Tripline. As the trip takes us two days we normally stop over in either Logroño or Burgos. Both of these cities are more or less halfway between Barcelona and Ferrol. Logroño is the capital of the Rioja wine region of Spain, so we often prefer to stop here to stock up on fantastic Rioja wines at a really cheap price ... Animating Trips. Animate your trips with Tripline Why not get your students to create Indiana-Jones-style animated maps with Tripline .

Click here to see an example, then have a look at the tutorial below which will take you through the main features of the application. Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo (@ Larryferlazzo ), on whose blog I first came across this great tool. Handouts Online: Travel English ESL / EFL Worksheets, activities and lesson plans. Jonathan's English: Vocabulary mind maps: travel and holidays. ESL hotel & tourism lesson plans for ESL Teachers. Travel & Vacations - Ideas for ESL Lesson Plans - Free English Resources Online.