Travel ESL Activities, Role-Plays and Games
In this insightful travel routines activity, students practice asking and answering questions about how they travel to school. First, students complete a table about how three people travel to school and then complete information about their own travel routine. Next, students find out about one another's travel routines to school by going around the class asking their classmates questions and completing a table with their answers. After that, students use the information in the table to complete four sentences, summarising the travel routines for the class. Finally, students report back to the class on their classmates' travel routines by reading their sentences.
In this free travel information role-play, students practice asking and answering questions about train and flight schedules, prices, and baggage allowances between London and Paris. First, in two groups, students look at missing travel information in a box and prepare the questions they need to ask for the role-play. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group. One student takes on the role of a ticket agent, while the other acts as a customer looking for travel information. The pair then role-plays a conversation where they ask and answer train travel information questions with the customer noting down the answers. When the students have finished, they switch roles and move on to a second scenario, this time focusing on air travel information. Afterwards, pairs present their role-plays to the class.
Here is a productive hotel reservations activity to help students practice phrases for making and cancelling hotel reservations by phone. First, in pairs, students arrange sentence strips to form two dialogues about making and cancelling a hotel reservation. Students then refer to the two conversations and underline the correct words or names in sentences. Next, students complete sentences with keywords from a box. After that, in their pairs, students role-play two scenarios where they make and cancel a hotel reservation, taking turns to be the hotel receptionist and the guest. Finally, pairs role-play the two scenarios to the class.
Here is an engaging travel vocabulary activity to help students practice vocabulary and phrases for travel situations at the airport, hotel, and bus. First, students match travel words and phrases to the correct location. Students then complete three mixed-up travel dialogues with the words and phrases. Next, in pairs, students cut one worksheet into cards and place the three cards labelled 'At the Airport', 'At the Hotel', and 'On the Bus' beside each other on the desk. Students then arrange the other cards in order under the correct headings to form three related dialogues. Finally, students role-play the three dialogues with their partner.
In this enjoyable travel collocations game, students play dominoes by matching words together to form travel collocations and using them in sentences. The first player puts down one of their dominoes on either side of the domino on the table, making sure that the words match together to create a travel collocation, e.g. check-in desk. If the player forms a travel collocation, they score one point. The player then tries to make a meaningful sentence using the travel collocation for an extra point, e.g. I went to the check-in desk and gave the agent my passport and booking number.' The other players then take turns matching their dominoes in the same way by putting them down at either end of the domino chain and making a sentence when a travel collocation is formed. The first player to get rid of all their dominoes scores an extra three points and the game ends. The player with the most points wins the game.
