1. Vocabulary

Tell the students that you are going to talk about winter sports. Hand out one holiday advert (A,B, C or D) to each pair of students. Give each student a copy of the vocabulary sheet (or ask them to copy this into their notebooks). Tell students to go through their advert and find as many vocabulary items as possible for their vocabulary sheet.

Now put the students into groups of four so that there is an A,B,C and D in each group. The students tell each other the vocabulary that they found and complete their vocabulary sheets.

Elicit all the vocabulary and go through the meanings of each where necessary.

2. Personalisation

Ask the students to work in their groups of four and try to say which or the four holidays sounds the most and least interesting. They discuss this together giving their reasons. Elicit ideas in open class.

Write the following sentence beginnings on the board. Ask the students to write them down and complete them so that they are true for them about winter sports. If they can't make a true sentence using any of the stems, they should change them so that they are true (e.g I don't often go..) If they have never been skiing, they can replace questions 4-6 with similar questions about ice-skating or tobogganing.

1. I often/never/sometimes go skiing

2. I'd like to go…

3. I don't want to try…

4. I've skied in …

5. The best skiing holiday I've ever had was in…

6. The best / worst thing about skiing is…

3. Decide your perfect winter holiday

Write the following headings on the board:

Sport:

Country:

Place to stay (hotel, apartment, hostel etc)

Travel by (coach, plane, car etc)

Evening activities (swimming pool, discos, quiet town etc)

A good place for (young people, families, beginners etc)

Tell students to work alone and to write their own ideas.

4. Sell your holiday

Students work in pairs, A and B. A is a customer in a travel agents. B is trying to sell his/her perfect holiday. They should make it sound as exciting as possible. Tell the students to think of questions they might want to ask (How much is the holiday? What food do I get? etc)

When finished, A and B swap roles.

5. Make a poster

Students in pairs choose one of their ideas from the last activity and produce a poster advertising the holiday giving the main details. These are then displayed so that students can see them all and decide which is the best one.

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fun, healthy, tasty, dangerous, wild, extreme, basic

good quality, comfortable, exciting, strong, great, clean, expert, top quality

safe, fun, cheap, free, qualified, friendly,

PLACES

mountains, ski resort, (black) ski run, slopes, ice rink, hills, off-piste

PEOPLE

beginners, instructors, experts, skier

EQUIPMENT

Ski pass, skis, ski poles, ski lift, helmet, snowboard, boots, ice skates, goggles, gloves

SPORTS

Skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, tobogganing, ski jumping

D Something exciting and a little bit dangerous for experts…

Wild and extreme skiing holidays.

• black ski runs

• off-piste skiing

• ski jumping

No training given. You must be an expert skier already.

Bring your own:

• skis

• goggles

• helmet

• gloves

• boots

• poles

Cheap, basic accommodation in hostels.

C Ice skating school for children aged 11-16 in Slovenia.

• Learn with expert instructors. We have instructors who speak English, German, French, Italian and Spanish.

• Free top-quality ice-skates

• Morning lessons from 10-12. Afternoons free to practice at the ice rink or have fun tobogganing on hills near the town.

• Fun, evening activities for the children

Children are looked after at all times. They get three, healthy and tasty meals a day and sleep in rooms for 4.

B Exciting snowboarding holidays in Italy.

• Big ski resort with ten ski lifts so no queues

• Free helmet when you rent a snowboard from us.

• Comfortable, strong boots for all sizes

• Holidays for beginners and experts

• Great evening activities

Bed and breakfast. Stay in clean rooms for 4, 8 and 12 people. Free bus from the hostel to the slopes every morning and back at the end of the day.

ADJECTIVES

A Safe, fun holidays for all the family

Skiing in Austria

• Cheap travel

• Free ski pass

• Lots of ski runs for beginners

• Qualified, friendly instructors

• Good quality skis and ski poles to rent from our shop

Stay in a comfortable apartment with your own kitchen with a view of the mountains.

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