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Перед вами настольная онлайн игра, с помощью которой можно не просто повторить лексику по теме «Путешествия», но и проверить себя на правильное написание этих слов (spelling). Настольная, потому что имеется игровое поле, как у настольной игры (назовем его «menu») и используется обычный кубик, а онлайн игра, потому что она интерактивная, полуавтоматическая (подсчет верных и неверных ответов приходится вести самостоятельно).
Как играть
Читаем определение-подсказку и набираем слово, щелкая по буквам в нижней части слайда. Если буква в слове встречается повторно, щелкаем по ней еще раз. Для слов из 4-5 букв, есть возможность ошибиться один раз, для более длинных — два. Если ошибок больше, появляется надпись «Fail». Возвращаемся в меню и идем дальше.
Внимание! Если встречается незнакомое слово или непонято его толкование, не отчаивайтесь, попробуйте угадать (как в «Поле чудес»).
Варианты
1. Играем в парах или двумя командами, бросая кубик. Если попадаем на номер с лестницей, поднимаемся по ней (но при этом возвращаемся назад). Если игра заканчивается быстро, повторите её ещё раз. Уже пройденные номера будут помечены звездочкой. При повторном попадании на них, переходите на следующие неиспользованные квадраты.
2. Играем без кубика, просто по очереди перемещаясь по табло и щелкая по четным и нечетным номерам. Можно бросить жребий, кто пойдет первым.
3. Играем самостоятельно с кубиком или без него.
Лексические игры для младшего возраста смотрите здесь.
It’s almost the end of the school year! We may be still waiting for the sun to come out in the UK, but lots of us are winding down for the end of term and getting ready to go away! Whether you are at home or away during the school summer break, you are likely to be travelling somewhere at some point. Keeping children entertained on the move is always a challenge – but it’s also a great time for conversation and to expand language skills in a fun way.
So today I’m going to share some of my favourite word games to play with children while travelling. Most of them are aimed at primary school aged children (5-11), but I have included ideas for making the easier or harder for children with varying levels of language skills.
- I Spy. OK, so you didn’t need any help to think of that one! Of course, the traditional version involves spelling or phonemes (I spy something beginning with s etc). You can also play other versions though. When my daughter was 3-4, and couldn’t yet play the traditional version of the game, we used to play this with colours (I spy something green for example) or categories (I spy something you can eat). For older children you could make the categories harder – EG I spy something soft or I spy something edible.
- 20 Questions. Choose a category (eg animals, famous people or things in the car). Each person takes a turn at choosing something which fits into the category. The other players have to take turns to ask questions to work out what it is. This is quite a difficult game and works on all sorts of skills – inferencing, auditory memory, vocabulary, asking questions etc. Make it easier by talking about the sorts of questions that might be good to ask before you start – eg for animals – where does it live? how many legs does it have? what colour is it? etc. Make it harder by only allowing questions with yes/no answers.
- I went to market. The first person says, “I went to market and I bought…” and then chooses an item. The next person repeats it and adds one to the list. Play continues until someone can’t remember all the items. You can vary the starting phrase to all sorts of different things. On the way home from a trip, we often do “when I went to x I saw…”. Make it easier by just asking the child to add to the list and not repeat back the other items that were said. Make it harder by using consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- Invent a story. Make up a story together. Each person in the car takes a turn to add a little bit to it. Make it easier by telling the story yourself and just asking your child to fill in the gap (eg “suddenly they saw a…”) Make it harder by doing one word each.
- Bingo. At its simplest level, this is great for really little ones. Who can be first to see a tree? A bus? A sheep? Make it harder by asking for a list of things, or more complicated things. You could look for things starting with each letter of the alphabet, or take turns to choose an attribute and look for things to fit it (eg who can see something spiky? Who can see something transparent?”)
- Buzz. Someone thinks of a word. Either one person tells a story or you can listen to the radio. Every time someone says the word you are listening for, you shout “Buzz”. You can make this harder by asking the child to listen for several different words and do different things. Alternatively, give each person in the car a different word to listen for.
- Simon Says. This one might be good at an airport or somewhere with a little more space, but with a bit of imagination, there are still plenty of instructions you can give in the car too. Ideas – clap, shout, stick out your tongue, make different animal sounds, close your eyes etc. NB The driver probably shouldn’t join in with this game!
- Draw a picture. This one is better for airports and train stations as it requires a pen and paper. Each person has a piece of paper. One person draws a picture and then tries to describe it for other people to draw the same thing. This is quite a difficult game and is great for a range of skills – listening, following instructions, position words, asking questions etc.
- Just a minute. Take turns to choose a topic, either for yourself or someone else. (If you have several children of different ages, pick suitable topics for each one). Each person has to talk about their topic for one minute without deviating from the subject. If they manage it, they win a point. If the others think they strayed too far from the topic, they don’t.
- Naming items. Choose a category. Take turns to name something in that category. Keep going until someone can’t think of any more. Topics can vary in their difficulty (eg animals or food for younger children or European countries or Shakespeare plays for teenagers).
- What could you do with… Choose a simple item. Take turns to think of an alternative use for it. EG a drink’s bottle could be a pen holder, a telescope, a trumpet etc.
- Planning your trip. If you’re going somewhere that your child knows well, see if they can remember the things they might do or see. If you’re going somewhere unfamiliar, they can guess. You can try this in categories – eg things we might do, people we might see, things we might eat etc.
Do you have any other favourite word games to share?
If you need some fresh, new ideas for the ESL travel and holiday unit that you can find in most textbooks, then you’re in the right place. We’ll share our top ideas for games and activities, along with travel vocabulary, worksheets and lesson plans. Let’s get to it!
ESL holiday and travel-themed activities
Let’s get into everything you need to know for an ESL holiday lesson. Keep on reading!
Here are the top ESL travel activities that you may want to try out with your students.
#1: Plan a Trip
Have your students plan a dream vacation in English! Instead of researching in their first language, use Google in English. In order to practice writing, keep notes only in English. Here’s an example of how you might plan your trip using English. You can have your students add as little, or as much detail as you’d like. However, the point of the activity is to practice writing in point form which is useful when writing outlines for tests or essays.
Day 1: Monday, January 1
Fly Seoul (3pm) —-> Vancouver (7am)
Check in Hotel ABC, 123 Avenue
Rest, relax
Day 2: Tuesday, January 2
Stay Hotel ABC
Tour Stanley Park
Eat Pub XYZ dinner
Day 3: Wednesday, January 3
Check out Hotel ABC
Rent car Budget 123
Drive Whistler
Rent skis shop ABC
Go Skiing
Lunch ski lodge
Check in Hotel ABC Whistler
Bed early
Procedure for one of my favourite ESL travel activities:
- Give students time to do some Internet research about a place they want to go. It’s helpful to specify the number of days. I generally make a rule that they must do this research in English. Suggest some helpful websites where they might like to start (Trip Advisor, Air BnB, etc.).
- Students can make a day-by-day itinerary of what they’re trip is going to look like.
- They can share about their trip with the class or turn it in for a graded assignment.
#2: A-Z Alphabet Game
If you know that your students already know a fair bit about holiday and travel, you may want to try this quick warm-up game. Or, you could consider using it as a review game at the end of a class.
The way it works is that students, in pairs or small groups write down the alphabet on a piece of paper. Then, they have to think of one travel related word for each letter. It doesn’t have to be done in order. For example:
B: Beach
F: Food
H: Hotel
P: Passport
S: Sun
The winner is the team with the most completed letters at the end of the allotted time. Do you want to find out more? Check this out: A-Z Alphabet Game ESL.
#3: Travel Word Association
This is nice ESL activity to do if you know that your students have studied about travel and holidays before. They can shout out vocabulary words related to this and you can make a mind map or sorts on the board. Group similar things together. For example, articles of clothing.
Find out more about this quick ESL warmer right here: ESL Vocabulary Word Association.
#4: Postcards
If you can get your hands on some cheap postcards or have some laying around your house or teacher’s office, try out this fun writing activity. It may just be the novelty factor, but students seem to love it. This activity is ideal for working on common greetings, the past tense (more ideas here: ESL past tense games), and using descriptive words, as well as using synonyms to avoid repetition.
Distribute the postcards to the students. You can do one per student, or put the students into pairs. They have to look at the picture on the front of the postcard and imagine that they went on this vacation. Then, they can write about their trip to a friend or family member.
Next, the students trade postcards with another student or group. After reading them, they can write a response back of at least a few sentences. Finally, you may want to display them around the class as they’re colourful and fun and other students may enjoy reading them!
Procedure:
- Give each student or pair a postcard. They look at the picture and imagine what they did on that vacation, and then pretend that they’re writing to a friend or family member.
- Exchange postcards and another student or group have to write a response to what they read.
- Display the postcards around your classroom (optional).
#5: Travel or Holiday Videos
I’m ALL about using videos with my ESL/EFL students. They’re fun, engaging and a nice way to grab student’s attention and introduce a topic. Of course, you can base an entire class around one too if you design the activities well.
If you want to find out more about using them in your classes and some activities and games to do with them, you’ll want to check this out: Using Videos for Teaching English.
#6: Dictogloss
This is a challenging activity that works on listening and writing skills. Find a short story related to holiday or travel. It could even be a description of your own vacation that you took recently.
Then, you read out the story to your students in a way that is a bit challenging for them to catch every word. Students have to take notes and then try to reconstruct what they heard based on their notes in small groups. You can read it again so that students have a chance to make some additions or corrections. Finally, students compare their version with the original.
Do you want to try it out with your students? You can learn more about one of the best ESL travel activities here: ESL Dictogloss Activity.
#7: Holidays ESL Lesson Plan
It’s easy to plan an ESL lesson about any topic, including holidays. Check out this video for the steps to follow:
#8: Yes/No Questions and Answers
If you think about it, holidays and travel lend themselves to a ton of yes/no questions. For example:
- Did you fly or drive?
- Did you eat some delicious things?
- Was the food good?
- Did you have nice weather?
- Etc.
If you want to see some activities or games to work on these kinds of questions, you’ll want to check this out: Yes/No Activities and Games.
#9: ESL Food Activities and Games
I’m not sure if it’s the same for you, but when I travel, it’s ALL about the food. I want to try all the delicious things where I’m staying! The good news is that I have a ton of fun, interactive games and activities for food. You can easily adapt most of them to focus on holidays.
You can find out more details here: ESL Food Activities.
#10: ESL Surveys
I love to use surveys in my classes because they lend themselves to just about any topic. In the case of travel, they’re ideal for working on the present perfect and simple past together.
For example:
Have you ever travelled to another country?
Where did you go?
If you want to know more about how to design and use surveys in your classes for an ESL travel lesson, then you’ll want to check this out: Surveys for ESL Students.
ESL Travel Games and Activities
I also love to use ESL surveys to get students to express an opinion in English.
#11: Present Perfect Activities Related to Travel
The present perfect is often used to talk about vacations, travel and holidays. For example:
- Have you ever been to another country?
- Have you travelled to ______ before?
In order to incorporate this grammatical construction into some of your lesson, you’ll want to check this out: Present Perfect ESL Activities.
#12: Brochure Scanning
This is an excellent travel activity! You’ll have to get your hands on some travel brochures first. The way it works is that students get tons of practice with a reading sub-skill (scanning) because they have to look quickly through the brochures to find specific bits of information. For example, cost or number or days.
Do you want to try out this reading activity? You can find out all the details here: Brochure Scanning Reading Activity for ESL.
#13: Odd One Out ESL Warmer
This is a quick English warm-up activity that you can try out with your students. The way it works is that you write words, in groups of 4 on the board. 3 are similar and 1 is the odd one out. Students have to choose this one and say why it doesn’t fit. For example:
Bathing suit, sunglasses, boots, flip-flops
Answers: Boots because it’s not for a beach vacation. I accept many different answers as long as students support it well.
You can learn more about this ESL warm-up here: Odd One Out for ESL.
#14: Would you Rather?
I’m sure you’ve done this before with friends. You have to choose between two negative things, or two positive things. For example, how you want to die, or what you want to eat. In this case, students could choose between two types of vacation. For example:
Would you rather have a beach or forest vacation?
Would you rather stay in a big hotel, or an AirBNB?
Learn more about this nice activity for an ESL travel lesson here: ESL Would You Rather?
#15: Task Based Activity: Dream Vacation
I love to incorporate this style of teaching into my holiday lessons. It allows students more freedom to choose what they want to learn about and also builds opportunities for some serious teamwork.
In this case, I’ll have students work in groups of 2-3 to plan a dream vacation. They can do some research to find out all the details including how to get there, food, budget, where to stay, etc. Then, they either have to write a report and hand it in to me and/or do a short presentation to the class.
Need some more ideas for this style of a lesson? Check this out: Task-Based Learning.
#16: Travel Themed Charades
I love to play charades with my students. The way it works is that you can think of some travel-related phrases. For example:
- Flying on a plane
- Sleeping on a bus
- Surfing
- Eating noodles
- Buying souvenirs
Then, students have to act this out and their teammates have to guess what the phrase is. More details here: ESL Charades.
#17: Postcards ESL Writing Activity
If you have some old blank postcards laying around or can get your hands on a stack of them for cheap, consider trying out this fun English writing activity. Find out all the details you need to know right here:
Postcard Writing Activity for ESL.
Travel and Holidays ESL
#18: Eliciting in an ESL Travel Lesson
Unless your students are absolute beginners, then it’s likely that they already know a good amount of travel and holiday vocabulary. That’s often why I like to start off my ESL traveling lesson by using some eliciting techniques. There are two main reasons for this.
The first reason is that it’s possible to find out what the students already know about this topic to avoid wasting class time covering these things. The second is that it helps students activate their prior knowledge about travel/holidays to make the new things they learn more memorable. Learn how to do this tactic for an ESL holiday lesson here:
ESL Eliciting Advice.
#19: Travel Listening Lesson
A nice way to talk about any topic is through a listening lesson. In this case, find a conversation between two people talking about an upcoming vacation plan. Or, someone talking about a favourite vacation from the past (it could even be you). Then, design an entire listening lesson around that. Find out how here:
#20: Idiom ESL Traveling Activity
There are lots of idioms related to holidays, travel and transportation. Here are just a few of them:
- All hands on deck
- To send flying
- Bump in the road
- Off the rails
- Train wreck
- Asleep at the wheel
- Fall off the wagon
- Hit the road
One of the best ways to make these idioms super memorable is to do this fun activity. Afterwards, your students will never forget! Learn more about this ESL activity:
Idiom Activity for Language Learners.
#21: Concentration ESL Traveling Vocabulary
One of the best ways to review new words during an ESL holiday or travel lesson is to play this memory game. Depending on the level of the students, make some matching pairs of cards with the following:
- Word/picture
- Word/definition
- Word/clue about the word
Then in small groups, students play the game to find the matches. Find out all the details about how to set it up and play:
ESL Concentration Game.
#22: Speaking Fluency Activity
To use this activity with a unit on holidays or travel, have students talk about a past, or upcoming vacation.
#23: Me Too!
Students have to make a true statement about themselves related to holidays and travelling. For example:
- I’ve been to Japan.
- I hate the beach.
- My family goes on a big vacation every summer.
If other students can agree, they stand up and say, “Me too!”
Travel and Holiday Vocabulary
Here are some of the most common vocabulary words that you may want to teach your students related to traveling for an ESL holiday lesson.
- airplane
- airport
- backpack
- baggage
- bathing suit
- beach
- bicycle
- boarding pass
- bus
- camping
- carry-on
- check-in
- cruise
- customs
- ferry
- hat
- homestay
- hotel
- landing
- luggage
- passengers
- plane
- postcard
- rent
- sunglasses
- suitcase
- take-off
- taxi
- ticket
- transfer
- transit
- vaccination
- The months of the year in English
Travel Worksheets and Lesson Plans for ESL
If you’re looking for some worksheets or lesson plans related to holidays and travel, then you’ll want to check out some of our top resource recommendations:
ESOL Courses
ISL Collective
Lingua House
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ESL Travel Lesson
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Travelling is going from a place to a distant place. Movement of people is considered as travel. People travel by many vehicles such as car, bus, plane, train or ship. These are called means of transport.
Table of Contents
- ⬤ Pictures of travel vocabulary with pronunciations
- ⬤ Word list of travel vocabulary in English
- ⬤ Air travel vocabulary
- ⬤ Flashcards exercise about travelling
- ⬤ Flip the card game about travelling
- ⬤ Images of travel vocabulary to download
- ⬤ Picture quiz about travel vocabulary
- ⬤ Listening test
- ⬤ Writing test about travel
- ⬤ Spelling test about travel
- ⬤ Worksheets for travel vocabulary to download
⬤ Pictures of travel vocabulary with pronunciations
Here is a list of travel vocabulary in English with pictures. You can listen to the pronunciation when you click on an image.
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⬤ Word list of travel vocabulary in English
- travel
- passenger
- journey
- voyage
- trip
- tour
- cruise
- safari
- destination
- expedition
- route
- airport
- check-in
- board
- fly
- land
- take off
- arrive
- leave
- depart
- travel
- visit
- plane
- travel agent
- hotel
- hostel
- motel
- luggage
- ticket office
- ticket
- customs
- delay
- information desk
- map
- book
- flight attendant
- passport
- flight
- rent a car
- insurance
- by train
- by plane
- by bus
- by car
- on foot
⬤ Air travel vocabulary
- layover
- stopover
- gate
- domestic
- delay
- boarding pass
- airline
- aisle
- business class
- captain
- cockpit
- co-pilot
- economy class
- first-class
- life vest
- seatbelt
- stewardess
- flight attendant
- take off
- turbulence
- emergency exits
- departures
- board
- baggage
SIMILAR PAGES:
❯❯ Holiday vocabulary
❯❯ City life vocabulary
❯❯ Transportation vocabulary
❯❯ Business English vocabulary
⬤ Flashcards exercise about travelling
Learn travel vocabulary with flashcards exercise below. There are flashcards about travel vocabulary. Guess it and open the card to see the answer.
⬤ Flip the card game about travelling
Click on a card to open it. Then you will see a random word about travelling. Guess the meaning of it in your own language.
⬤ Images of travel vocabulary to download
⬤ Picture quiz about travel vocabulary
Let’s check your travel vocabulary with images. Select the correct option according to the given picture. For every correct answer you get 10 points.
⬤ Listening test
This is a free listening test about travelling. First listen to the audio about travel. Then select the corresponding picture from the list.
⬤ Writing test about travel
Below is a vocabulary writing test about travel. Look at the image and write the name of the picture into the input box.
⬤ Spelling test about travel
Below is a vocabulary listening and spelling test about travel. Listen to the audio and then write what you hear into the input box. For every correct answer you get points.