The document provides a lesson about holidays for grade 4 students. It includes vocabulary about different types of holidays and accommodation. There are listening exercises where students match people to different holiday types and locations. The lesson also covers using the simple past tense to talk about past holidays and activities using regular and irregular verbs. Students are asked to complete sentences using the simple past and write their own sentences about past activities.

1. Trinity Grade 4
Lesson A: Holidays

2. Words and ideas
Can you match these types of holiday with the correct postcard?
- Four postcards (A, B, C & D)
- Four types of holiday

3. A

4. camping holiday

5. B

6. cruise

7. C

8. beach holiday

9. D

10. sightseeing tour

11. 1 b) Listening Task
Listen and match the people with the postcards. Put the numbers next to the
photos.
A camping holiday
B cruise
C beach holiday
D sightseeing tour

12. Listening Task
Listen and match the people with the postcards. Put the numbers next to the
photos.
A 4 camping holiday
B 2 cruise
C 1 beach holiday
D 3 sightseeing tour

13. 1 c) Holiday Vocabulary
Types of Holiday Accommodation

14. Holiday Vocabulary
Types of Holiday
● Adventure holiday
● Beach holiday
● Caravan (can be both)
● Sightseeing tour
● Mountain holiday
● safari
Accommodation
● Bed and breakfast (B&B)
● Friend’s home
● Family home
● Caravan (can be both)
● Hotel
● tent

15. 1 d) Question Time
Student A
What type of holiday do you usually have?
Student B
My family often go camping and we stay in a
tent. What about you?

16. 2 a) Listening
Listen to Bruno, Clare and Luke talking about their holidays. Where did they go?
Was it good? Circle the right words to complete the sentences.

17. 1) Bruno
Corfu
Rhodes
great
terrible

18. 2) Clare
wonderful
terrible

19. 3) Luke
awful
lovely

20. 2 b) Listening
Now listen again and answer the questions.

21. 1) Where did Bruno swim?

22. 2) What was the weather like during Clare’s
holiday?

23. 3) What did Luke do most of the time?

24. 3 a) Your own thoughts
In your notebook, answer these questions about yourself.

25. Your own thoughts
1 What was the weather like yesterday morning?

26. Your own thoughts
2 Where were you last weekend?

27. Your own thoughts
3 Where did you go on holiday two years ago?

28. Your own thoughts
4 What was the weather like (this morning)?

29. Lesson B: Holidays
Grammar & practice

30. The simple past (regular verbs)
-ed
We ‘make’ the past tense of regular verbs by adding ‘-ed’. For verbs ending in ‘e’,
we just add a ‘d’!
Q: What is a verb?

31. The simple past
Affirmative (yes) Negative (no)
I/you/he/she/it/we/they
walk
be
camp
decide
like
enjoy
want
rain

32. The simple past
Affirmative (yes) Negative (no)
I/you/he/she/it/we/they
walk
be
camp
decide
like
enjoy
want
rain
walked
was
camped
decided
liked
enjoyed
wanted
rained

33. The simple past
Affirmative (yes) Negative (no)
I/you/he/she/it/we/they
walk
be
camp
decide
like
enjoy
want
rain
walked
was
camped
decided
liked
enjoyed
wanted
rained
Which one is irregular?

34. The simple past
Affirmative (yes) Negative (no)
I/you/he/she/it/we/they
walk
be
camp
decide
like
enjoy
want
rain
walked
was
camped
decided
liked
enjoyed
wanted
rained
didn’t walk
wasn’t
didn’t camp
didn’t decide
didn’t like
didn’t enjoy
didn’t want
didn’t rain

35. 1 a) Complete the paragraph
Last year we were in Scotland for our summer holiday.
Scotland is lovely, but our holiday (1)_____ awful. Dad
(2)_____ a beach holiday. He (3)_____ something different.
We (4)_____ to go camping. What a mistake! We (5)_____
on a campsite in the mountains. We (6)_____ the place, but
we (7)_____ the weather. It (8)_____ every day for a whole
week. This year…
The beach!

36. The simple past (irregular verbs)
Irregular verbs are the ones without ‘-ed’.
They isn’t much logic to them, so you need to memorise them.
Many irregular verbs are very old words (ate, drink) and are used a lot.

37. Irregular verbs- close your books!
Verb
have
go
drink
do
eat
fly
Simple Past (Irregular)

38. Irregular verbs- close your books!
Verb
have
go
drink
do
eat
fly
Simple Past (Irregular)
had
went
drank
did
ate
flew

39. Irregular verbs- close your books!
Verb
sleep
write
come
buy
make
Simple Past (Irregular)

40. Irregular verbs- close your books!
Verb
sleep
write
come
buy
make
Simple Past (Irregular)
slept
wrote
came
bought
made

41. 1 b) Five sentences
Write five sentences about what you did yesterday or last weekend using the
irregular verbs.
For example
1) Yesterday I ate a pizza.
2) I flew to London last weekend.
3) Last weekend I wrote a story.
4) I bought a pen yesterday.
5) I did my homework yesterday.

42. 1 b) Five sentences
Close your books and try to remember what you wrote.
Tell me and our friends what you did.

43. 2 a) Pronunciation
Group 1 /t/ Group 2 /d/ Group 3 /id/
finished enjoyed started

44. 2 a) Pronunciation
Group 1 /t/ Group 2 /d/ Group 3 /id/
Finished
booked
cooked
Enjoyed
Arrived
loved
Started
ended

45. P43, 3a Topic Preparation

46. P43, 3b Topic Form
Pierre’s family skiing trip.
Family skiing trip
(1) destination
2) who I went with
3) what I did
4) what I liked most

47. P43, 3b Topic Form
My trip to Tokyo.
My trip to Tokyo.
(1) I went to
Tokyo...
2) I went with my dog...
3) I ate ramen… I played video
games...
4) I liked the food the
most...
Q1: Where did you go?
Q2: Who did you go with?
Q3: What did you do?
Q4: What did you like the most?

48. P43, 3b Topic Form
Your last holiday or school trip.
?
(1)
2)
3)
4)
Q1: Where did you go?
Q2: Who did you go with?
Q3: What did you do?
Q4: What did you like the most?