Holiday in France R-407 ESL Lesson Plan

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

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

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. 5

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. 5 10

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 5 10

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

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

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

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!