Summary
This ESL lesson for A2 English students introduces the essential language for business travel. This English class material covers key situations such as navigating the airport, checking into a hotel, and understanding travel plans.
This lesson helps beginner to pre-intermediate students learn fundamental vocabulary and phrases for their first business trips. Activities include a listening exercise about a travel plan, a vocabulary matching task, and comprehension questions based on a short reading passage.
Students will practice using the future simple with 'will' to discuss their travel arrangements and engage in guided speaking practice to plan a trip. The material is designed to build practical communication skills for common travel situations.
Activities
- A warm-up discussion to activate students' prior knowledge about travel and introduce key concepts like 'itinerary' and 'business trip'.
- A listening comprehension exercise based on a short audio about preparing for a business trip, helping students practice listening for specific details.
- A reading comprehension task based on a short blog post, reinforcing vocabulary in a new context.
- A grammar practice section focusing on the future simple with 'will,' allowing students to make sentences about future travel plans.
- Guided speaking practice where students plan an imaginary business trip, using the vocabulary and practical phrases learned in the lesson.
Vocabulary focus
The vocabulary section introduces essential nouns and phrasal verbs for business travel. Key terms include "itinerary," "check in," "departure," "arrival," and "flight." Students learn to describe the basic stages of a trip, from the airport to the hotel.
Grammar focus
This lesson concentrates on the future simple with 'will'. This grammatical structure is used to help students make predictions, promises, and talk about future plans related to their travel schedule and itinerary.
