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Many conversations HERE.

Planning a travel HERE.

More to practise situations at a hotel HERE

and at a restaurant THERE.

Your final task will be to write a page on your virtual travel journal.

On this site HERE, you can find ideas and tips about how to write a travel journal. Click on the link and check it out.

Now meet Réka Kaponay, a teenage traveller, in this article from The Guardian HERE and on her blog THERE.

She wrote the article to tell about her experience as a teenage traveller. The article is quite long but it is time for you to start reading longer texts. 

Read the beginning. The introduction is always the most important part. 

Read the headtitles and the first and last paragraphs in each parts.

Read the conclusion. This way, you will understand better the meaning of the article.

Who is she? What is so special about her life experience? Send me a short summary in French of what you have understood (no Deepl translations of course!).  

HERE, discover part of the novel, ‘It’s Only the Himalayas, and Other Tales of Miscalculation from an Overconfident Backpacker’ written by Sue Bedford in 2016. Go to chapter 1 page 13 to read the title of the chapter and get where the female characters are. Next go to page 17 and read from ‘The next day…’ to ‘far apart’. Do you understand this extreme adventure they experienced? Send me a short summary still in French of course!

FINAL TASK

You’ve travelled some place abroad, or maybe in your mother country, France. Write about a special day, a trek you’ve experienced, people you’ve met or anything about this adventure.

STEP ONE: MAKE NOTES ABOUT YOUR JOURNEY

• present your trip
• explain how you planned the journey
• give your first impressions
• tell an anecdote
• explain what you learnt from this trip

STEP TWO: WRITE YOUR TRAVEL DIARY ENTRIES

Use your notes to write your diary entries: 

• organise you ideas and use connecters
• add drawing, emoticons and photos
• DON’T SEND JPG DOCUMENTS! ONLY PDF OR ODT OR WORD. I’LL PUT YOUR TRAVEL JOURNALS ON THIS BLOG TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THEM. 

Allez ABSOLUMENT consacrer 25 mn de votre temps à regarder sa vidéo ICI. Lisez aussi les pages consacrées à ce chapitre dans votre manuel p.162 à p.166. Ainsi vous avez fait travailler toutes vos mémoires et mis toutes les chances de votre côté pour bien saisir et bien mémoriser cette leçon VITALE pour rédiger des textes niveau B1. 

WHAT IS A GAP YEAR?

Listen to this definition HERE.

Why should you take a gap year? HERE.

ORAL COMPREHENSION : ‘My gap year changed my life’

Now before listening to this MP3 audio document, anticipate by listing on your small training book possible questions you could ask to Melissa about her gap year. 

Now check and find the questions Melissa is asked. 

Renée explains why she thinks it is important to speak and learn languages HERE (B1). 

HERE she explains why she loves travelling so much (B1).

Erica has visited France, Italy and Germany. She tells us about her travelling experiences HERE. (B1)

Jessica has travelled all around the world… and she has done a lot of incredible things and seen many different things HERE.(B1)

Listen to Helen tell you about her holidays in Australia and try to understand all the exciting things she has done HERE. (B1)

Heather tells us about her trips to Scotland, England and Paris. She explains us what she visited and saw in these countries HERE.

Caitlin has been to the Fidji islands and on a tour of Europe ( France, Italy, Switzerland and England). She tells us about her experiences HERE.

Simonetta speaks about her passion for travelling to distant countries with her best friends HERE.

Watch this video and take notes in English: 

• Who speaks? 
• What is the video about? Who is it for? What is it made for? 
• Where does it take place? Can you recognize any countries?

Then make a short summary in French. 

Want to travel the world? Or just have a road-trip with your mates?

Watch this video HERE from the Engage team (New Zealand’s only web series about Kiwi teen culture) who have some handy tips to make it a great experience.

Note down the tips (conseils) you can understand in French. 

Learn words about travelling by plane on this Learning App HERE.

A crosswords HERE. You must click on the number in order to read the definition of the word.

Let’s go abroad and get through the different experience of a foreign traveller in a foreign country HERE. 

Holiday activities HERE.

Play this quiz HERE. It is a video with a fill in the gap exercise.

Air travel vocabulary practise HERE.

https://www.eslprintables.com/vocabulary_worksheets/travelling/tourism/Let_s_talk_about_TOURISM_231132/

ICI et ICI.

https://www.eslprintables.com/vocabulary_worksheets/travelling/tourism/Taboo_Cards_Travel_Tourism__546154/

STEP ONE – Choose a destination at the travel agency

Look at the video HERE to revise the PRESENT PERFECT which is very useful (utile) to talk about your experience and list the countries you have already or never visited. 

You may call the agency and book a flight HERE.

Listen to the conversation and do the quiz online.

Note down the questions asked by the customer (client). Then click on ‘See listening script’ at the top of the page and check your understanding.

Now you need to book a hotel room HERE. 

First listen to the dialogue and do the quiz online.

Note down the questions asked by the customer (client). Then click on ‘See listening script’ at the top of the page and check your understanding.

The trip has been successfully organized, You’re going to the States and you’ll spend the first two days in New York city HERE.

Listen to your leader give you the program. Can you get all the information? 

STEP TWO – At the airport

At the airport, you may hear some announcements HERE.

It’s really important to get the most of it if you don’t want to miss important information! 

First listen to the dialogue and do the quiz online.

Now you’re on the plane. Listen to your captain HERE.

First listen to the dialogue and do the quiz online. How much do you understand? 

At the airport, after landing, you will have to pass through immigration and customs (douane) HERE.

First listen to the dialogue and do the quiz online.

Note down the answers the lady gives. Then click on ‘See listening script’ at the top of the page and check your understanding.

STEP THREE – At the hotel

Now you’ve arrived at the hotel and you must check in HERE. Unfortunately there has been a mistake… even more than one! 

First listen to the dialogue and do the quiz online. What are the problems the man has to face? Summarize in French.