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How was your vacation-
Unit 1
Learning objectives
Communicative goals
Greet someone arriving from a trip.
Ask about someone’s vacation
Discuss vacation preferences
Describe good and bad vacation experiences
Vocabulary
Adjectives to describe trips
Intensifiers
Decline and accept help
Good and bad vacation experiences
Pronunciation
The simple past tense ending.
Regular verbs
1. Activity one
A: Watch the Video: “How was your vacation? Scene 1: Video 26” While
watching, listen and repeat the conversation. You have to listen to it at least
three times.
Then, you can pause the video to look up unknown words in your dictionary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSBAlaXXlk&list=PLi5aMhs0-
QFhQYVpQVo3Yn8mtPat6Tk2a&index=19
Dictionaries on line:
1- Word reference: English-Spanish.
http://www.wordreference.com/
C: Focus on language: Look at the scrip you have written down from the video.
With partners, find and write down expression following these criteria:
- Was right next to the café and the music was very loud.
3. An expression that means “the weather was not good”
- Vacation
- Wonderful
- Happy
- Weather
- Hotel
- Room
- Café
- Music
D: Role play: With partners from your study group, via skype, practice the
conversation model from the video. Then, using this model, with your partners
create a similar situation talking about a tourist place in Colombia. You have to
shoot a video clip as learning evidence and upload it.
E: Watch the Video: “How was your vacation? Scene 2: Video 27” While
watching, listen and repeat the conversation. You have to listen to it at least
three times. You can pause the video to write down the script and then, you can
look up unknown words in your dictionary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY62SeAoOqc&list=PLi5aMhs0-
QFhQYVpQVo3Yn8mtPat6Tk2a&index=20
F: Focus on language: Look at the scrip you have written down from the video.
With partners, find and write down expression following these criteria:
Welcome Back
3- A sea food
I went on a cruise
- a terrible vacation
- That was a horrible vacation.
- That´s your worst vacation?
It was amazing.
GOOD LUCK
AND GOD BLESS YOU