Traveling in a post-Covid world

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – Study pandemic travel vocabulary including “sanitagging,” “travel bubble,” and post-COVID tourism terms while building vocabulary about global hardships in this advanced esl lessons.
• – Analyze travel industry changes through video comprehension about permanent shifts in tourism and New Zealand’s pandemic response for speaking activities.
• – Discuss vaccination policies and COVID passports while sharing personal travel experiences during pandemic restrictions using these english teaching materials for c1 lesson plans.

In this Advanced ESL lesson, students will learn hot vocabulary related to traveling during the COVID-19 pandemic and put it into practice in a number of exercises. Students will also discuss their own experience of traveling and life in new circumstances, as well as state their opinion on COVID passports.

Warm-up discussion

The lesson starts with a discussion about traveling after the pandemic.

Vocabulary

The student learns new vocabulary related to post-COVID tourism by filling in the gaps (prioritize, enhance, collaborate, etc.)

Video: COVID-19: Will travel ever be the same?

The student watches a video about traveling in a post-COVID world and answers questions based on the video.
New words are extracted from the video for the student to match them with their meanings (hardship, disrupt, exacerbate, etc.)

Vocabulary: traveling measures

The student learns some new vocabulary used to talk about traveling measures during the pandemic (sanitagging, travel bubble, mothballing, nonessential travel) and uses it to complete the sentences.

Discussion

The student gives their opinion about vaccines and COVID passports.

Video: I did a little dance!

The student watches a short video of a press conference in which the New Zealand Prime Minister discusses the country’s handling of the virus and the effects on the economy. They answer the questions that follow.