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LESSON PLAN #1

LEARNERS
AGE: 21 years old
LEVEL: intermediate
NUMBER: 20 students

TOPIC: TRAVELLING
TIME OF THE LESSON: 90 minutes

WARMER: The teacher will show students pictures of different holiday resorts in Argentina, and will ask students to name them, and mention (if they know) the province where they’re located. 

Then, the students will be asked to discuss in pairs the following questions. The teacher will monitor de discussion by walking around the classroom, helping when necessary and taking down notes of common mistakes. The teacher will write on the board students' answers to question 1.

WEB SESSION: The teacher will share with the students the  link to an online newspaper, and students will be asked to read the piece of news about 10 of the best hotels near the sights in Argentina, and to check their predictions of which holiday resorts were the most visited in Argentina.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/nov/10/top-10-affordable-hotels-hostels-argentina-buenos-aires-patagonia-mendoza

Students will be given 2 task sheets:

1) A photocopy

2) An electronic exercise:  students will be asked to look up the meaning of some selected words from the piece of news, in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, and then match the words with their definitions.

Source: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/characterful?q=characterful

WHAT'S NEXT: As follow up activities, students will do a crossword about vocabulary from the piece of news, and then they will make their own ranking list of the hotels, from the most to the least interesting for them. Finally, the teacher will give students general feedback on their performance. 

Sources: 

Moseley-Williams, S. (2018, November 10). 10 of the best hotels near the sights in Argentina. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/nov/10/top-10-affordable-hotels-hostels argentina-buenos-aires-patagonia-mendoza

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(n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/characterful?q=characterful  

LESSON PLAN #2

LEARNERS
AGE: 21 years old

LEVEL: intermediate

NUMBER: 20 students

TOPIC: TRAVELLING

TIME OF THE LESSON: 90 minutes

WARMER: The teacher will show students pictures of different tourist attractions in the world, and will ask students to name them and mention (if they don't know they can try to guess) the city or country where they’re located.

Then, the students will be asked to discuss in pairs the following questions. The teacher will monitor de discussion by walking around the classroom, helping when necessary and taking down notes of common mistakes.

WEB SESSION: The teacher will share with the students the link to a video of a travel destination:

Source:  https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/travel-source/00000169-25aa-ddf6-a37f-a5fb65b50000

Students will be given the following task sheets.

1)

2) An electronic exercise: students will be asked to do a DROP-DOWN exercise, where they have to choose the correct word to fill in the gaps. They can look up words in the Collins Dictionary Online.

Source: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/es/diccionario/ingles/trailblazer

WHAT'S NEXT: As a follow-up activity, students will be asked to write an email they would send to a friend, recommending him/her the best places to visit in San Francisco. First, students will make the draft of the email, and after teacher's feedback on it (oral suggestions), they'll type it and send it to the teacher's gmail account, for a final correction.

Finally, the teacher will give students general feedback on their performance. 
 
Sources:

Destinations: San Francisco. Retrieved from https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/travel-source/00000169-25aa-ddf6-a37f-a5fb65b50000

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Trailblazer definición y significado: Diccionario Inglés Collins. Retrieved from https://www.collinsdictionary.com/es/diccionario/ingles/trailblazer