Taking a Taxi

A2 · Elementary57 minTravelLesson 5 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: take a taxi with confidence — say where you're going, agree the price, and speak up if the route looks wrong.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Where to?

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: The Taxi Ride

    Read a 99-word text about The Taxi Ride

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Taxi Words

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Taxi Sentences

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Make Taxi Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Take a Taxi

    Role-play: You're taking a taxi to a restaurant (6 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: the long way round

    3 discussion questions

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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.

faremeterkeep the changetrafficdrop offpick up

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