1 . Short field trips to local businesses can help English learners begin to try out their language skills. This lesson plan helps provide structure for your learners for a field trip.

●To develop speaking skills with native speakers other than the teacher.

●Short field trips to local businesses, government offices and other sites of interest.

●All levels except for absolute beginners.

●Begin the lesson with a short warm-up. Take shopping for example, Ideally, share with the students your first shopping in English locally, Invite the students to tell about their own stories.

●Gather information around the theme. For example, if students look into purchasing a home theater system, one group could explore the options for TVs, one group for surround sound and another group for blue-ray players, etc.

●Have students break up into groups of three to four and each group divides their own tasks into at least four separate parts. For example, in the example of buying a home theater system, the group responsible for researching TV options might have three tasks: Which size is best for which living situation? Which cables are required? What is the best payment option?

●Circulate in the room, helping students with their questions.

●Ask each group to role play situations depending on the context, like salesperson, tourist agency representative, employment officer, etc,

Here are some ideas to use as homework to help review what students have leaned on their short field trips:

●Create short role-plays based on their experiences.

●Draw up vocabulary trees employing new vocabulary studied during their short field trip.

●Short writing assignments summarizing their experience.

●Group reports back to class.

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