Listening
1. Tell students they are going to hear a TV programme about holidays. Ask them to answer the questions you write on the board or look on the web :
1 | Who is the interviewer? | 5 | Does she like the beach? Why / Why not? |
2 | How many people did she question? | 6 | Where did the second man go on  holiday? |
3 | Where does the first man like to go? | 7 | Why does he remember the holiday? |
4 | What type of place does the woman like? | 8 | What was the animal’s problem? |
2. Play the recording twice, and then ask if they want to hear it again.
3. Tell them to compare their answers with their neighbour before checking them.
Answer key
1. Martha Jones, 2 100. 3 Anywhere with a good beach, 4 Places with history. 5 No. She does not like all the people without clothes. 6 The Valley of the Kings near Luxor in Egypt. 7 Because of a crazy donkey that ran off with him. 8 It was jealous. It used to be the number one donkey, but was now the number two donkey because it could not see any more.
Speaking
1. Tell them they are going to do the survey from the TV programme. They are going to ask other students about their holidays. Put them in pairs and give out the photocopied sections.
2. Ask them to look at their section and ask about anything they do not understand.
3. Tell the pairs they are going to work apart and ask five different people. They should write the names and take notes about the answers.
4. Go around the class helping and noting interesting answers.
5. On the board, write or look on the web:
SECTION A
What did most people answer for questions 1-4?
What were the most interesting answers for questions 5 and 6?
SECTION B
What did most people answer for question 1?
What were the most interesting answers for questions 2-7?
Tell them to go back to their partner and exchange information.
6. Choose a pair and ask them to tell the class what their partner said. For information like ‘most people said’, ask other pairs if they got the same results. For the ‘most interesting’ information, get examples from other pairs.