English in elementary school teaching materials collection 2013 the jet p rogr amme

Suggestions and Advice: 
This activity gives the chance for the energetic students that learn by acting out and doing things to 
shine. It is their chance to contribute and be engaged, so let them be as noisy and crazy as they 
want, as long as it is within the context of the story. In fact, encourage them and they may start 
seeing English as what is should be, something that can be a challenge to learn, but fun to use.
Teaching English with Japanese Stories

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English
in
Elementary
School 
TRAVEL AGENT GAME
 
Submitted by Allison Ferguson (Joetsu City BOE) 
Target Group
: 6th year
Difficulty Level
: Basic Conversation, Conversational 
Activity Objective: 
To practice the grammar point "Where do you want to go?" "I want to go to ~~." 
Procedure: 
Split the class into groups of 4. Group 1 becomes the first set of 'Travel Agents' while the rest of 
the class becomes the 'Customers'. The 'Travel Agents' come to the front of the room, the 
'Customers' all move to the back of the room. The teachers arrange the country flags face down on 
the student's desks at random. The teachers practice the target grammar with the travel agents 
(Where do you want to go?) and the customers (I want to go to ~~.). Start the timer. The travel 
agents will each ask a customer where they want to go and guide them to their destination. They 
then go and get another customer. This continues until all the customers are sitting at their 
destinations. Stop the timer. Write down group 1's time. Group 2 becomes the travel agents. The 
teachers change the flag positions. Continue until all groups have had a chance to be travel agents.
The group with the fastest time wins.