My kids did a two-week airport thing. The first week, they learned vocab and made passports. The second week, they did a role play.

It's a smidge complex and a little heavy on activities ~ I have some classes that finish everything super quickly, so I always have to have some extras just for those.

I hope this is useful to someone!  :)

Annnnnnnnnnnd that's it. :-)

This is amazing!! You must have put hours into this! thanks so much for sharing! I think I can use this for my winter camp! It's too advanced even for my grade 3 students.

I never saw the replies.  :)

Creeper ~ Thank you so much!
Rilakkuma ~ Thank you so so much! I'm so glad you can put it to use.
Nancy ~ Thank you! In my classes, we use signals for everything. It's a girls' high school, so they're pretty cutesy. For example, when I want their attention, I say "listen!" and they reply "carefully!" with their hands at their ears. There are six kids in each group. When they finish a task, they clap their hands all together in a short rythm that they use every time. That way, I don't deal with all the hands in the air / chaos that can ensue when the kids are trying to get your attention.  :)

I had to do a lesson on buying tickets. There was a dialogue in the text. I had the students go on the computers, go to travelocity.com and choose flights to where ever they wanted. They had to fill out a worksheet, then create a new dialogue based on the new information.

The kids were a more advanced level, and they really got into it. They we're all focussed and on task. It's nice to give students real-life applications, instead of just text-book work. I'm sure we all remember being in school and at some point saying "Why am I learning this, I'm never going to need it".

Here's the worksheet I made - nothing too special, you might want to make your own, but maybe it'll give you an idea.

I did a lesson on the airport before but this is so much better! Thanks for sharing your materials. For the customs role play I had premade passports with celebrity information. They really liked this part since I used characters from Twilight and Hyun Bin. Attached are the materials I used from another teaching site.

I had a great time with this lesson and so did my former high school students. I taught at a smaller countryside school and had fewer students in the 2nd grade classes, so it worked well. I haven't tried this lesson in the city with larger class sizes yet. I may re-think how to do this lesson in a larger class.

First I printed the badges, laminated and cut them and put them in to borrowed nametag holders from the school.

Passport Template has American spelling and the Edited file has Canadian spelling (although there's not much to change in that way at all in the file).

I handed out the worksheet first before introducing the topic concept. Then I went through the example expressions for customs officers, as well as the responses a traveller may give on the following slide.

Then I had students complete the passport worksheet after handing them out. I went around the class, with my co-teacher helping as well, to assist students filling in the blanks. Especially the lower-level kids. For the phone number section I told students not to worry about actually filling in their real numbers because they'll be keeping the worksheet anyway.

Then we went through the example dialogue on the next slide. I had students practice in pairs, asking them to change their information, before explaining the final task of forming small groups, positioning those groups in different areas of the class and allowing students to pretend they're going through an English-speaking customs section of an airport. I handed out one Customs Officer badge to each group and kept the 'Manager' one for myself to go around and hear any complaints or  help out with dialogs as if I were in charge. At one point I also allowed my co-teacher to wear the badge while helping me out with this task.

I expressed to the class that each group should have one officer who asks the questions to two to three members in the group, then change and allow the last one they've questioned to take the badge and that former 'customs officer' student to go to the back of the line. Most students should have a chance to be both travellers and customs officers.

My students really had a great time. The higher-level kids did a great job ad libbing their own ideas both as travellers and customs officers.

Be sure to tell students to use the worksheets to help them with the dialogue and have their 'passports' to be able to give to the customs officer to look over during the check.

And, of course, it can be changed for anyone's home country as the focus for the lesson since it's fairly universal: U.S., England, Australia, etc. Just have to make any changes to the PowerPoint and Word files as are required.

Here's a story you could use about visitors to Canada:

http://www.canada.com/ch/cheknews/news/story.html?id=38e10bcb-6ea6-4638-809b-31bd32019bdf&k=2219

And a "What happens next?"* video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPe_hf7aBXM






















* He dies.

hey Guys

Here is a lesson I did with my high school students. We have been talking about using English for travelling all over the world. So we did this drama based lesson where we set up the classroom as an airport. My coteacher and I did the lesson together and each had an airline (after our own names - CHANGE THE AIRLINE NAMES TO YOUR OWN NAMES if you use this). Each student had to come to our check-in counter and say one of the 2 "check-in" dialogues.

It worked really well. The only problem with this lesson though is that: it uses lots of resources (1 online ticket per child, 1 passport per child and 1 ailine ticket per child). And while the students are checking in with the teachers 1 by 1, the other students do not have much to do but fill  in their details on the ailine ticket.

Anyway :) It was a great success and I hope it helps you!

PEACE