This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching English to 4th form students about traveling. The objectives are to revise travel vocabulary, practice the present continuous tense and "be going to" structure, develop reading, listening, speaking and presentation skills, and foster cooperation. Activities include discussing types of travel, singing songs, reading passages and guessing the means of travel, vocabulary practice, drawing pictures based on sentences, role plays about desired destinations, and a matching game. Students are assigned to write a composition about going on a picnic.

1. We are going to travel (4 form)
Горлова Олена Іванівна
ЗОШ № 4, м. Мелітополь, Запорізька обл.
Objectives: by the end of the lesson students will be able to
- revise vocabulary on the topic;
- use The Present Continuous Tense and be going to;
- improve their reading skills;
- develop their skills in understanding;
- enrich their knowledge about sights of different cities;
- develop attention and quick reaction;
- foster their speaking and presentations skills;
- share the information with their peers;
- consolidate their cooperationand friendship via team and group work.
Level: Elementary (4th form “Way Ahead”)
Equipment: pictures on the topic “Travelling”, a record of the songs “Down by
the station” and “We’regoing on a picnic”, a script of the text, cards with texts
about kinds of travelling, a map “How to get to the RockyIsland”, sheets for
writing and drawing.
Procedure
I. Introduction. Warm-up
T: Good morning, children! I’m glad to see you. Today we have many guests at
our lesson. Greet them, please. How are you? Are you in a good mood?
Are you ready to start our work? The topic of our lesson is “We are going to
travel”. The motto is “The world is a book, those who don’t travel, read only a
page”. Let’s read it together.
Tell me, please, do you like travelling? As for me, I adore travelling. How can we
travel? I have some pictures with different kinds of travelling. Look, answer the
question and put the picture on the blackboard.
Ps: We can travel by car (plane, bus, bike, ship, boat, train, on foot, on horseback).
T: Let’s remember the poem “We go by car”. Stand up, please. Recite with
movements.
We go by car

2. We go by car,
We go by train,
We go by boat,
We go by plane,
We go on land
And sea, and air,
We go, go, go…
Everywhere!!!
II. Main part
1. Reading. Work in groups
Let’s work in groups. The names of your teams are “Pilots”, “Captains” and
“Engine drivers”. I’ll give you a card with the text. Read it attentively, discuss and
say what kind of travelling it is. Use the phrases We think, In our opinion, We
guess.
1. It is the fastest way of travelling. It can take you from one town or city to the
other one in no time. The seats are comfortable. That's a pity but sometimes you
can see very little from the windows. The things are too small to see them. When
the weather is rainy or foggy you can't travel by it.
2. This is the slowest way of travelling. Both young and old people like it. You
needn't worry about the tickets. The only thing you need is a rucksack. You can
visit many places in such a way.
3. This way of travelling is fast. The carriages are comfortable. It is so pleasant to
travel in them. You can see a lot of interesting things from the carriage windows.
You can make a long journey on land by it.
Ps: 1. We think it is travelling by plane.
2. In our opinion it is travelling on foot.
3. We guess it is travelling by train.
T: You are right. I have an additional text for all teams. Who will be the first to
answer?
4. This way of travelling is fast. You can stop at any place you like and go where
you like. You need no tickets. Usually families travel by it.
Ps: We think it is travelling by car.

3. T: Good work. Now imagine, please, we are at the railway station. We can see a
train that goes past our station. Let’s sing a song “Down by the station”. Stand up,
please.
Down by the station
Down by the station, early in the morning
See the little puffy bellies all in a row.
See the engine driver pull the little handle.
“Chug, chug! Toot, toot!” Off we go!
2. Vocabulary revision. Team work
T: I have a big wish to travel! But before travelling we must pack our bags,
rucksacks or suitcases. Answer the question “What do you usually put into your
bag (rucksack, suitcase) when you are going to travel to the seaside? “Captains”,
you pack this bag. “Pilots”, you pack this rucksack. “Engine drivers”, you pack this
suitcase. Use only one word. Don’t repeat the words, please.
Ps: 1. I usually put a toothpaste into my bag.
2. I usually put a bookinto my rucksack.
3. I usually put a swimming suit into my suitcase, etc.
T: Good for you. Who is the winner? Now I can see you are ready to travel.
3. Pair work. Writing and drawing
T: Where are you going to travel and how are you going to do it? Take a sheet of
paper and write the sentence, for example, “I’m going to travel to the seaside by
car”. Then change your sheets with your classmate, read his sentence and draw
what you have read. Take your felt-tip pens or pencils and draw. You have two
minutes to do it. (A lovely quiet music plays.)
T: Masha, show us your picture and read the sentence above it.
Masha: I’m going to travel to the mountains on horseback.
T: Illia, is Masha’s picture right?
Illia: Yes, it is right. (No, it is wrong.)
4. Speaking
T: Which town or city would you like to visit and why? Some pupils have
prepared the dialogues about it. Listen to them attentively.

4. Dialogue 1
Artem: - Hi, Ann! How are you?
Ann: - Hi, Artem. I’m fine. And you?
Artem: - I’m fine, too. Ann, where would you like to travel and why?
Ann: - I adore the Crimea. So, I’d like to go to the Black Sea coast with my
parents.
Artem: - How would you like to go there?
Ann: - I’d like to go there by train, then by trolleybus.
Artem: - What would you like to do there?
Ann: - First, I’d like to go to the Yalta quay and see the symbol of the Crimea the
castle “Swallow’s Nest”. Second, I’d like to go to the Yalta Zoo and see a lot of
exotic animals: lions, tigers, monkeys, zebras, elephants, jaguars, parrots, peacocks
and so on. What about you, Artem?
Artem: - As for me, I’d like to go to Lviv in western part of Ukraine and see its
ancient buildings, historical monuments and churches, especially St. Yura’s
cathedral, the monument to Danylo Galytskyi and the Gunpowder Tower. I’d also
like to go to Feodossia to see the ruins of a famous ancient town Khersones and
visit the Aivazovskyi Art Gallery.
Ann: - It would be very interesting.
Artem: - I also think so.
Dialogue 2
Alina: - Vlad, where would you like to travel on winter holidays?
Vlad: - I’d like to travel to Paris, the capital of France, and go along the main
street of the city Les Champs Elyses. I’d also like to lift at the top of the famous
Eiffel Tower and visit the well-known museum Louvre. And what about you,
Alina?
Alina: - I’d like to travel to London, the capital of Great Britain, and visit the
Tower of London, Big Ben, the Buckingham Palace, go across the London Bridge
and feed doves in the Trafalgar Square. Sonia, what about you?

5. Sonia: - As for me, I wouldn’t like to go abroad, because there are so many
interesting places to visit in our country. For example, I’d like to go to
Zaporizhzhia and the Island of Khortytsia where the Cossacks lived and fought. I
would also like to go to Sevastopol, one of the Ukrainian hero-cities, and see the
monument to Admiral Nakhimov and the Sunken Ships, go to the historical places
where our soldiers fought during the Russian-Turkish war and the Great Patriotic
war.
Alina: - It would be so exciting.
Vlad: - I’d like our wishes come true.
Alina: - I hope so.
5. Matching
T: I hope you were very attentive. I need 8 pupils. Come here, take the cards and
match the city with its sight going around and shouting the words. When you find
the pair, you show it lifting your hands up. Ready, steady, go!
Paris the Tower of London
Yalta Big Ben
Sevastopol the Eiffel Tower
London Louvre
Lviv St. Yura’s cathedral
Zaporizhzhia the monument to Danylo Galytskyi
Feodossia the castle “Swallow’s Nest”
the Yalta Zoo
the Aivazovskyi Art Gallery
Khersones
the monument to Admiral Nakhimov
the monument to the Sunken Ships
the Isle of Khortytsia

6. T: Let’s check up. Read in turn.
6. Listening
T: Let’s have a picnic on the Rocky Island. Look at the map. How are we going to
get there? We are going to go there by boat. Listen to the text, please.
Script
Come and look at the map! First we’re going to go under the bridges and past the
castle. Then we’re going to go along the river. Look! Here’s Rocky Island. We’re
going to go round the island and stop at Rocky Beach. We can go onto the island
here and have our picnic.
T: Read the sentences and circle the right words.
We’re going to go (past, under) the bridges. Then we are going to go (along, onto)
the river and (round, past) the castle. We’re going to go (past, round) the island and
stop at Rocky Beach. Then we can go (onto, along) the island and have our picnic.
7. Relaxation.
T: Would you like to sing the song about the picnic? Stand up, please.
We’re going on a picnic
We’re going on a picnic,
Leaving right away.
We are going to stay all day.
Would you like some ice cream?
Yes, we’d like some ice cream.
Would you like some salad?
Yes, we’d like some salad.
Ready for a picnic.
Here we go!
8. Grammar Revision
T: So, we are on the Rocky Island. We are having a picnic. What are you doing
now? Look at the pictures, choose one of them and say the answer using the
Present Continuous Tense. (Children use pictures with the words: make the fire,
gatherfirewood, toast bread and sausages, make tea, play the ball, take pictures.)
Ps: I’m making the fire. We are gathering firewood. They are toasting bread and
sausages. She is making tea. They are playing the ball. He is taking pictures.
T: Do you like our picnic? Are you happy?

7. III. Summing-up. Home assignment
T: We have done so much at the lesson. I think it was very productive and
informative. You have worked hard. Thank you for your nice work. (Children get
marks.)
Your home task is to write the composition “I’m going to have a picnic”.
The lesson is over. Good-bye, children! Have a nice day!