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Unit 6, Travel, is a highly practical ESL speaking unit designed for A1–A2 multilingual learners ages 6–18. Students practice real travel communication skills they will use in transportation, airports, and vacations—making this one of the most essential speaking units in the full K–12 ESL curriculum.
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…will find this unit ideal for building strong speaking fluency.
Students learn to talk about transportation, planning trips, airport steps, and different types of vacations—all through structured, guided, and engaging conversation tasks.
This unit helps students speak confidently about:
Bicycles, buses, trains, taxis, and ferry boats
How to pack, plan, and book a trip
Airport steps (check-in, security, gate, boarding, baggage claim)
Beach, mountain, city, winter, and cruise vacations
Every lesson follows a speaking-first design:
✔ Chat-a-Bit warm-up conversation
✔ Short, accessible readings to introduce speaking vocabulary
✔ Oral Q&A after each reading
✔ Speaking-focused vocabulary practice
✔ Four guided dialogues to build fluency
✔ Pair & whole-class conversation tasks
✔ “Would you rather…?” speaking choices
✔ End-of-lesson speaking reflection questions
This ensures students practice real conversation—not silent worksheets.
Students practice:
Asking and answering travel questions
Expressing preferences
Talking about experiences and plans
Using descriptive language about places
Sharing opinions (“I think…,” “I prefer…”)
Making comparisons
Giving reasons (“because…”)
Students learn to:
Listen to their conversation partners
Understand real travel vocabulary
Respond appropriately in dialogues
Students use travel vocabulary such as:
Transportation: traffic, schedule, crowded, cheap, journey
Trip planning: luggage, reservation, explore, destination, online
Airport: passport, security, scanner, gate, boarding, check-in
Vacations: view, culture, freezing, sail, glow, perfect
Vocabulary is introduced through speaking, not memorization.
Present simple (“I take the bus…”)
Future forms (“I’ll pack…” “We’ll go…”)
Preference language (“I’d rather…”)
Comparative speech (“faster,” “cheaper,” “safer”)
Real conversation drives every activity.
Students complete speaking tasks like:
Planning a trip
Comparing vacation types
Role-playing airport steps
Choosing transportation for a journey
Young learners: sentence frames, visuals, simple questions
Teens: longer answers, deeper reasoning, personal experiences
Encourages students to compare travel in their home countries with travel in their new environment.
This unit builds on earlier speaking units:
Unit 1: Daily Life Speaking
Unit 2: Neighborhood Speaking
Unit 3: Animals Speaking
Unit 4: Food Speaking
Unit 5: Hobbies Speaking
Unit 6 deepens students’ ability to speak about real-life situations, including movement, plans, choices, and travel experiences.
It also prepares learners for future units on:
Geography
Cultures
Outdoor adventures
Weather and seasons
Speaking Objective: Students describe different ways to travel and compare transportation options.
Speaking Vocabulary: journey, traffic, schedule, crowded, cheap, wave
Speaking Activities:
Warm-up questions about going out
Oral Q&A after each reading (bike, bus, train, taxi, ferry)
Partner speaking tasks about safety, comfort, and choices
4 guided dialogues (bus, train, taxi, ferry)
“Would you rather…?” transportation choices
Speaking Benefit: Builds everyday communication skills for moving around a city.
Speaking Objective: Students talk about planning trips, packing, booking rooms, and buying tickets.
Speaking Vocabulary: luggage, reservation, online, digital, explore, destination
Speaking Activities:
Warm-up about maps and hotel beds
Reading-based speaking questions
Vocabulary used immediately in oral practice
Partner dialogues about packing, reservations, ticket troubles, and destinations
“Would you rather…?” travel planning questions
Speaking Benefit: Helps students talk confidently about real travel routines.
Speaking Objective: Students describe check-in, security, finding the gate, boarding, and baggage claim.
Speaking Vocabulary: passport, check-in, security, scanner, gate, board
Speaking Activities:
Oral warm-up about airports
Short reading sections with WH speaking questions
4 functional airport dialogues
Pair practice using airport vocabulary in conversation
“Would you rather…?” airport situation questions
Speaking Benefit: Essential oral English for newcomers and international travelers.
Speaking Objective: Students compare beach, mountain, city, winter, and cruise vacations.
Speaking Vocabulary: perfect, view, culture, freezing, sail, glow
Speaking Activities:
Warm-up about weather and relaxation
Speaking questions after each vacation type
Dialogues for beach, mountain, city, winter, and cruise trips
Discussion about what to pack & what to do
“Would you rather…?” vacation choice challenges
Speaking Benefit: Encourages descriptive speaking, comparisons, and personal preferences.
Use maps, pictures, or travel photos to spark conversation.
Have students role-play airport staff, taxi drivers, or travel partners.
Encourage students to describe trips from their home country.
Provide sentence starters for beginners (“I usually…,” “I prefer…”)
Create speaking stations: transport, packing, airport, vacations.
Role-play: booking a hotel or buying a ticket
Oral description of a vacation
Dialogue performance (pair)
Speaking interview about favorite transportation
“Plan a trip” speaking presentation