That's English! - Module 5 - unit 6: holiday

This is a very nice topic, isn't it? Let's start with general questions:

• What kind of holiday do you prefer: a family trip, a relaxing holiday, adventure...?
• How do you plan your holiday? Do you go to a travel agency or do you book everything on your own? Do you look for information before going away?
• Where did you go last holiday? Give as many details as possible: when, where to, how long, how, the weather, the food, the people...
• Where would you like to travel if you could? Why?
• What are the main differences between a tourist, a holidaymaker and a traveller? (p.64)

About grammar, we have the first and second conditionals. If you want to practise, have a look to previous posts or go to these links:

• first conditional is also called probable or possible conditional and it usually takes present/future tenses; e.g. if you don't hurry up you'll be late.  For exercises, click here , here and here
• second conditional is called improbable or hypothetical conditional and it's like in this example: if I had a better car I could travel more. For practice you can go to these links: click here, here, here or here
• If you like music, remember a famous song by Beyoncé: If I were a boy

ACTIVITY 1

In groups, one student starts with a probable conditional sentence such as If the weather is fine, I'll go to the countryside next weekend.Then the following student takes the result to use it for another first conditional: If I go to the countryside next weekend, I'll call my friend Peter. The round continues until you can't say anything else.

ACTIVITY 2

Then you should do the same with the second conditional, starting with If I could afford it, I'd buy a new car - If I had a new car, I'd go to France and so on.

ACTIVITY 3

If you want to practise with conditionals you may use this game with cards: go to this link . The aim is to join an "if"-card and an action-card. We'll play the game in class. Then you should try to turn the first conditional into a second conditional.

ACTIVITY 4

This link is another game we'll play in class. Again the idea is to finish an if-clause. This game uses first conditional but we can use it for second as well.

See you in class!