TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Come fly with me!

Activity Type Introduction

Role-play activity, pair In this intriguing role-play activity, students play an air travel
and group work board game where they role-play asking for air travel information
and practice booking airline tickets at a travel agency.

Language Focus Procedure

Asking for air travel
Divide the students into groups of four.
information
Give each group a copy of the game board, a dice and two counters.
Booking airline tickets
Explain that the centre of the game board shows air travel
information about return flights from London to Perth. There are
Aim
three possible flights and each flight shows the departure and
To play an air travel arrival time, stopover, flight time, cost and baggage allowance.
board game where you
role-play asking for air Give the students time to read the information in the centre of the
travel information and board and ask questions about vocabulary or abbreviations.
practice booking airline
tickets at a travel agency. In pairs, the students then take it in turns to roll the dice and
move their counter along the board. Each time a pair lands on a
square, they role-play the situation.
Preparation
One student takes on the role of a customer and the other is a
Make one copy of the
travel agent.
game board for each
group of four and enlarge
If the square contains an information symbol, the customer
to A3 if possible. Also,
asks for travel information about one of the flights. If not, the
provide a dice and two
customer's task is to book a certain type of flight.
counters for each group.
The travel agent refers to the air travel information in the centre
Level of the board during each role-play.

Intermediate The first pair of students to reach the finish wins.

Afterwards, invite pairs to role-play some of the situations in front

Time of the class and give feedback.
35 minutes

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 TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Come fly with me!

Find out what

START time the Thai Buy the
You want to Find out
You are very
land in Perth in which is the
Airways flight cheapest flight rich. Book a
the afternoon. fastest flight to
arrives in possible. flight.
FINISH Book a flight. London.
London.

Find out what

time the Daily Flight Information: London to Perth Flight delayed!
Singapore
Airlines flight Go back one
arrives in Stopover/ square
Airline Depart (LHR) Arrive (PER)
London. Flight time

1 stop BKK Find out when

12:30 15:05 (+1)
Buy a ticket 19h 35' the Singapore
for the fastest Airlines flight
flight to Perth. 1 stop DOH arrives in
15:25 18:25 (+1) Perth.
19h 55'

1 stop SIN You have a lot

Buy the 22:15 00:40 (+2)
19h 25' of luggage.
cheapest
Buy a premium
premium
economy
economy flight. Depart (PER) Arrive (LHR) ticket.

Your flight is 1 stop BKK You want to

16:20 07:15 (+1)
going to arrive 21h 55' fly at night to
early! London. Find
Go forward one 1 stop DOH out which flight
23:05 13:30 (+1) is best.
square 21h 25'
You want 1 stop SIN
17:30 08:00 (+1) Find out
to sleep
21h 30' where the
straightaway
Qatar Airways
on your flight
Premium Business flight has a
to Perth. Book Economy
Economy Class stopover.
a flight.
$1,280 $1,850 $3,700
Book a ticket
30 kgs 35 kgs 40 kgs Find out the
for the earliest
earliest flight
flight to
$1,350 $1,890 $3,550 time to Perth.
London.
35 kgs 40 kgs 45 kgs

Find out what $1,250 $1,895 $4,100 You've been

time the Qatar 35 kgs 40 kgs 50 kgs given a free
Airways flight upgrade!
departs from COST OF RETURN TICKET AND BAGGAGE ALLOWANCE Go forward one
London. square

Find out
You missed Find out which Find out what
Buy the You want to which airline
your flight! airline offers time the Qatar
cheapest arrive in Perth the travel
the best overall Airways flight
business class Go back one early evening. agent would
baggage arrives in
flight. square Book a flight. recommend
allowance. London.
and why.

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