Lesson Topics: travel, tourism
Skill Focus: Listening, Reading, Speaking, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 2.25 hours
Lesson Plan Download: travel-destinations-2026-advanced-052026.docx
Lesson Overview:
- Students first warm up with questions about holidays and travel.
- This lesson contains both a video clip and a passage. Students first watch a short (1:36m) clip from Bloomberg featuring their Top Destinations for 2026. As students watch the video, they take notes about each destination. Afterward, so students can learn more about each of the five destinations, they read short paragraphs with more details about each.
- The video and passage are followed by comprehension and follow-up questions.
- Next, students review phrases from the video and match key vocabulary to definitions. Once complete, students use some of the new vocabulary to complete discussion questions.
- After a debate prompt on the social media's effect on tourism, students imagine they are travel bloggers and then complete an itinerary planning activity that requires them to chart an itinerary (on a map) for a holiday.
- Next, students attempt to guess the top tourist destinations of 2024 according to the World Tourism Rankings.
- As roleplay activities, students first debate the pros and cons of tourism as residents of Corsica. Next, they deal with a situation at a boutique hotel.
- After two famous quotations about travel, students then review vocabulary and the lesson's collocations.
- Finally, the lesson ends with a few final discussion questions.
Web Preview: ADVANCED (C1/C2) Lesson on 2026 Travel Destinations
Warm-up Questions
- Where was the last place you visited on holiday?
- Where would you travel if money were no object (i.e., if you had a lot of money)?
- What's the most famous place you know in Europe? Asia? The Americas?
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Comprehension Qs Ans Key
1) ...
2) Almaty — gateway to Central Asia's best hiking and skiing, set at the foot of the Tian Shan mountains.
3) Corsica — described in the video as offering "uncrowded European summer bliss," away from more heavily visited destinations like Amalfi.
4) Penang — widely regarded as having the best street food in Southeast Asia, with a unique mix of Chinese, Indian, and Malay influences.
5) ...
Vocabulary answer key: 1-h, 2-f, 3-g, 4-b, 5-i, 6-d, 7-e, 8-a, 9-j, 10-c, 11-k
Tourism Rankings: 1-France, 2-Spain, 3-United States, 4-Italy, 5-Turkey, 6-Mexico, 7-UK, 8-Germany, 9-Japan, 10-Greece
Collocations: 1-d, 2-g, 3-a, 4-e, 5-c, 6-h, 7-f, 8-b
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Liveability_Index
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings