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THEME 5 TRAVEL

FUNCTIONS
F1 Talking about past and present events/experiences
F2 Booking
10 GRADE F3 Exchanging ideas and plans
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F4 Asking for approvals and/or confirmations

11 Holiday Destination

The activity aims to have students improve their speaking skills by exchanging ideas and plans through
an information gap activity.

Materials and Preparation
Information gap charts on page 130
Copy and cut out the information gap charts along the dotted lines and hand them out to each pair.

Procedure
1 Put students into pairs.
2 Tell students that they are going on a holiday with a friend for a week and that they are going to
decide on the destination. Also, explain students that they are going to have missing information
on the information gap charts. Ask them to ask and answer to find out the missing information and
take notes.
Tell them that Student A will study the information given and ask her/his partner the following
questions:

E.g. How can we get to …?
What can we do in …?
How long will it take to get to …?
What food would you recommend?

Then, Student B will study the information given and answer her/his partner’s questions.
3 Give students a suitable amount of time for the activity.
4 Once students have filled in their charts, ask them to exchange opinions on the holiday
destinations.

E.g. I’d like to go to … because …
Why don’t we go to …?
We could …
I think …
In my opinion …

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