Holiday In France: A Free ESL Lesson Plan

Notre Dame, Marseille, Montpellier. If you’re looking to add a bit of color and culture to your student’s reading activities, this new ESL Lesson Plan on holiday in France offers just the ticket.

Suitable for intermediate learners, the lesson plan is built around the theme of holidays. It offers students the chance to practice their reading skills while learning about intensifiers, idioms and informal language.

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1. Holiday in France
   R-407
   ESL Lesson Plan
   

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3. What is your favorite kind of holiday?
   A B
   C D E
   

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4. When you go on holiday, how do you
   communicate with your family and friends back
   home?
   A B
   D
   E
   C
   

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5. How’s all with you? OK, I’ve got a lot to tell you. In my last email I
   think I was still in Barcelona, right?
   Anyway, after that, we started to head north into France. But not
   too far… first we took the train to a really wonderful town called
   Perpignan. Typically European, lots of totally gorgeous squares
   with old buildings and a massive fort. Here’s something incredibly
   interesting. People speak Catalan here. I always thought that
   Catalan was spoken only in parts of Spain. But no, the street
   signs here are in French and Catalan.
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6. Anyway, our next stop was Montpellier, another utterly gorgeous
   place further along the coast. Montpellier is a very interesting
   place because it does not have any Roman or Greek history.
   Weird, right? Wherever you go in Western Europe, the cities and
   towns were always founded by the Romans or the Greeks. Still,
   it’s not a young city. It has one of the oldest universities in the
   world. Lots of really excellent food here too. I can’t get enough of
   the seafood!
   After a few days wandering around and enjoying the sun, we
   visited the historic city of Arles. OMG! Too beautiful! It was so full
   of historic monuments that we didn’t see it all. And I didn’t even
   know that the very famous Vincent Van Gogh painted 300
   paintings in Arles. Alex went to watch a football match while we
   were here too. Loads of fun.
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7. OK, we are about to go for breakfast so I’ll finish here. But today
   we are in Marseille. We arrived quite late last night on the train
   from Arles so we just got up! We’ve got a great view of the harbor
   from our hotel window… but that’s all I can tell you. We’re going
   to eat breakfast (yep, more seriously delicious croissants!), and
   then we plan to visit Notre Dame de la Garde, a massive
   cathedral that sits atop a hill and dominates the town. Absolutely
   spectacular!
   Alex and I both send our love. Gotta go!
   Katie
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8. Katie, who wrote this email, is a 25-year-old
   woman from Coventry in England. Who do you
   think she wrote this email to?
   Alice
   Alice
   Anyway, our next stop was Montpellier, another utterly gorgeous place further along the coast.
   Montpellier is a very interesting place because it does not have any Roman or Greek history.
   Weird, right? Wherever you go in Western Europe, the cities and town were always founded by
   the Romans or the Greeks. Still, it’s not a young city. It has one of the oldest universities in the
   world. Lots of really excellent food here too. I can’t get enough of the seafood!
   After a few days wandering around and enjoying the sun, we visited the historic city of Arles.
   OMG! Too beautiful! It was so full of historic monuments that we didn’t see it all. And I didn’t even
   know that the very famous Vincent Van Gogh painted 300 paintings in Arles. Alex went to watch
   a football match while we were here too. Loads of fun.
   K, we are about to go for breakfast so I’ll finish here. But today we are in Marseille. We arrived
   

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9. How does Katie express how much she is
   enjoying her holiday? Look for particular words
   and phrases that convey strong meaning.
   

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10. utterly
    Match the intensifiers with the adjectives in
    highly
    completely
    seriously
    bitterly delicious
    intelligent
    unbelievable
    talented
    disappointed
    

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11. Katie’s letter is very informal. How
    would you re-write this paragraph if
    you wanted to include it in a formal
    essay?
    Anyway, our next stop was Montpellier, another utterly gorgeous
    place further along the coast. Montpellier is a very interesting
    place because it does not have any Roman or Greek history.
    Weird, right? Wherever you go in Western Europe, the cities and
    town were always founded by the Romans or the Greeks. Still,
    it’s not a young city. It has one of the oldest universities in the
    world. Lots of really excellent food here too. I can’t get enough of
    the seafood!
    

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