This is awesome.
I have changed it slightly so that the kids have to guess the countries at the beginning of the travel powerpoint, Only a slight change, but my kids love games. Here is the altered one.

Wow, this is way better than the travel lesson I did last year with my students. Definitely going to incorporate some of the ideas here into a new lesson.

These are some resources I made for a Study Abroad Course that I taught for high school students.

My students always tell me that they really want to go to the U.S./the U.K./Europe/Australia ect. I figured it would be great if they could actually have the experience of planning a ten day trip, estimating airfare from Incheon + hotel + daily travel expenses^^

I looked up the top ten tourist destinations in the world--I showed them this video, which I also linked to in the ppt:


Then, I gave them spreadsheets of cost estimates. They are real numbers taken from kayak.com, hotels.com, and http://www.budgetyourtrip.com/. I had the students work in groups of two to three to complete the worksheet.

awesome idea! looking forward to using these ideas^^

Thanks guys, these are really good ideas...I tried some of them in my class yesterday and they went pretty well

I find that a my students are really curious about travel/tourism across the world...all I did was show a quick Youtube video about the top tourist destinations and showed some pictures of my own travels...then I had them plan their own fantasy vacation. There were still a few students who said that they didn't care and didn't have any interest in leaving Korea, so I just had them make fantasy trip for someone coming to Korea..

I took this lesson, made a new worksheet, polished it up, simplified the language, and updated the prices on plane tickets and daily travel costs. When students choose their city, plane ticket, hotel, I display it all on the TV and let the students take time to write it down.

This lesson is very effective because of the realness of it. My students loved it and even my co-teachers planned their trip too. I remind them that I looked up these numbers myself and you can really do this trip. When they pick their city I encourage them to think of either an expensive trip or a cheap trip, because a lot of classes will only choose first class plane tickets.

I end the lesson by writing on the board "If you want to travel the world, you must learn English", something to help motivate them. Sometimes the students will just say "no, tour guide" instead.

My students always tell me that they really want to go to the U.S./the U.K./Europe/Australia ect. I figured it would be great if they could actually have the experience of planning a ten day trip, estimating airfare from Incheon + hotel + daily travel expenses^^

I looked up the top ten tourist destinations in the world--I showed them this video, which I also linked to in the ppt:


Then, I gave them spreadsheets of cost estimates. They are real numbers taken from kayak.com, hotels.com, and http://www.budgetyourtrip.com/. I had the students work in groups of two to three to complete the worksheet.

This lesson worked pretty well with my class. I asked them simple questions about travelling and then showed them a short video. I them write about their most memorable trip and then had some of them present.