Teaching "Speaking" Part 7

A Holiday to Remember 

By.Susan Kay

ACTIVITY: Pair work: speaking Whole class: speaking, writing

AIM: To describe a holiday using pictures and to collect information and fill in a chart about other students' holidays .

GRAMMAR AND FUNCTIONS: Past simple: questions

VOCABULARY: Travel and holidays.

PREPARATION Make one copy of the worksheet for each student in the class. Separate the chart from the pictures and cut the pictures out as indicated.

 TIME: 40 minutes

PROCEDURE:

1. Ask the students to think of a good holiday they have had. Explain that they are going to describe this holiday to a partner using pictures.

2. Ask the students to work in pairs.

3. Give one set of pictures to each student.

4. Ask the students to choose pictures which illustrate the following details of their holiday: where they went, who they went with, when they went, how they got there, where they stayed and what they did there. The students should lay out the pictures in the order in which events happened. They should do this without saying anything at this stage.

5. In their pairs, the students take it in turns to look at their primness pictures and tell the story of their partner's holiday. They should each confirm or correct the details of their own holiday, and give additional relevant information to their partner.

6. When the students have finished exchanging information about their holidays, give one copy of the chart to each student in the class.

7. Ask the students to put their partner's name at the top of the column marked 'Student A' and to fill in that column with details of their pantheism holiday.

8. Now ask the students to interview two other students about their partners' holidays, and to write details in the columns on the chart marked 'Student B' and 'Student C'. Make sure they know how to ask the questions before L/ they start.

9. Using the notes they have written on the chart, each student writes an account of Student B's or Student C's holiday.

10. The students read their stories aloud, without mentioning' the name of the student and the class guess whose holiday it is.