Writing Reviews & Recommendations
Aims
Goal: give a clear review of a place you've visited — a rating, a highlight, and a recommendation other travellers can use.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Five stars?
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: Reading and Writing Reviews
Read a 212-word text about Reading and Writing Reviews
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Review & Recommendation Words
7 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Fix the Review Sentences
Error-correction exercise, 5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Make Review Sentences
Word-ordering exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Discussing Reviews
Role-play: You and a friend are reading reviews to plan what to do tomorrow (8 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: write the review
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 Tourist Attractions course in the Tuton library. Browse all free lesson plans.