Summary
This A2-B1 level ESL lesson plan equips students with the essential English skills needed for navigating an airport. Through engaging activities, learners will master key airport vocabulary, understand check-in procedures, and practice using the present perfect for travel experiences. The lesson includes video comprehension, reading tasks, dialogue practice, role-plays for check-in and security scenarios, and a writing exercise, ensuring a well-rounded understanding of common airport interactions and language.
Activities
Travel talk: Students initiate the lesson by discussing their personal travel habits and airport experiences, activating prior knowledge and setting the context for the topic of air travel.
Essential airport vocabulary: Learners match key airport terms like check-in counter, boarding pass, baggage claim, and gate with their definitions to build a foundational understanding of airport-specific language.
Video: At the check-in counter: Students watch a video depicting a check-in scenario and answer comprehension questions to practice listening skills and understand practical airport interactions.
Useful phrases at the airport: Learners complete common airport questions and statements using a word bank, reinforcing functional language for situations like checking in and asking for seat preferences.
Grammar focus: Present perfect for experiences: This section introduces and provides practice for using the present perfect tense (e.g., "Have you packed...?") to discuss past experiences relevant to airport security questions.
Reading: Airport procedures: Students read a text detailing the check-in process, from arriving at the airport to boarding, and answer true/false questions to check comprehension of procedural information.
Dialogue practice: Learners reorder a jumbled check-in conversation between an agent and a passenger, enhancing their understanding of typical conversational flow in an airport setting.
Speaking: Role play at the airport: Students engage in paired role-play activities covering scenarios like check-in, security issues, and lost baggage, applying learned vocabulary and phrases in communicative contexts.
Writing: Travel problems: Learners write a short email to a friend describing an airport problem, using vocabulary from the lesson to practice written communication about travel mishaps.
Airport announcements: Students listen to and note key information from sample airport announcements, then create and practice their own, focusing on understanding and producing critical travel updates.
Vocabulary focus
Key vocabulary includes terms for airport locations and documents like check-in counter, boarding pass, baggage claim, gate, and security. Students will also learn words related to flight status such as delayed and scheduled, types of luggage like carry-on, and phrases used in interactions, for example, "Where are you flying today?", "Are you checking any bags?", and "unattended bags".
Grammar focus
The main grammar point is the Present Perfect tense used for talking about experiences and recent actions relevant to airport situations. Students practice forming questions and statements like "Have you packed your bags yourself?" and "Has your flight been delayed?", focusing on the structure Have/Has + subject + past participle to inquire about past events with present relevance.
