Local Events
Aims
Goal: find out what's happening in town and get the details that matter — what it is, when it starts, and whether you need a ticket.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: What's happening in town?
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: Discovering a Festival
Read a 187-word text about Discovering a Festival
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Event Words
6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Event Sentences
Gap-fill exercise, 5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Match Events and Activities
Matching exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Ask About Events
Role-play: You're at a tourist information office (7 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: find the party
3 discussion questions
Open the full lesson
The remaining 6 stages of this lesson, with the procedure, the examples and the exercises, are included with Starter, along with the interactive version you can teach from. Lesson 1 of this course is free: the full plan is on this site, and a free account opens it in the interactive player.
Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
This plan comes from the Cultural Experiences course in the Tuton library. Browse all free lesson plans.