Buying Tickets
Aims
Goal: buy a transport ticket at the counter — say where you're going, choose single or return, and check the price and platform.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: One ticket, please
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: At the Ticket Counter
Read a 153-word text about At the Ticket Counter
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Ticket Words
7 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Ticket Sentences
Gap-fill exercise, 5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Match Ticket Phrases
Matching exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Buy a Ticket
Role-play: You're buying a ticket at the station (7 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: the machine is broken
3 discussion questions
Open the full lesson
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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 Public Transportation course in the Tuton library. Browse all free lesson plans.