This A2 ESL lesson explores the topic “What’s the Best Type of Holiday?”, helping students talk about different holiday experiences and express simple opinions.
Learners discuss a range of holiday types such as beach holidays, city breaks, camping trips, safaris, cruises, and road trips, and explain what they like or dislike about each one.
Students learn useful vocabulary and phrases for describing holidays, preferences, and reasons, such as “I prefer…”, “I like… because…”, and “I don’t like…”. They also practise giving opinions and making choices using simple, natural English.
Through speaking tasks, ranking activities, and “this or that” discussions, students build confidence in talking about travel and personal preferences.
This lesson is ideal for A2 learners who are developing fluency in everyday conversation about travel, holidays, and free-time activities.
- Warm Up: Types of Holidays
- Types of Holidays
- Dialogues: Holidays
- Audio: Transport
- Picture Round
- True or False?
- Ranking and Discussion
- What Would You Do?
- This or That?
Homework
There is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome A2 ESL lesson plan on holidays. Students are challenged to write detailed answers to topic-based questions. Activity layout:
- Writing task
