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UNIT 6 Travel and tourism

Colourful holiday collocations

Level

Upper-intermediate

to advanced

Warm-up

1 Dictate the list of features listed in bold in the Key vocabulary (i.e. alleys , beaches , cliffs, etc.). Tell

the students to write these nouns in a list down one side of a piece of paper. Check that they

understand each of the words.

2 Ask students to think of adjectives which are used, for example in holiday brochures, to describe

these different features of the landscape, e.g. stunning / spectacular beaches . There is no need to

elicit the exact vocabulary used in the activity because this will emerge during the activity.

3 Ask students which adjectives could collocate with which nouns, e.g. spectacular

cliffs/panoramas/coastline , etc.

Time

40–45 minutes

Aim

To encourage students to create

their own colourful collocations

of the kind used in tourist

brochures to describe attractive

holiday destinations

Main activity

Materials

One set of Adjective and Noun

cards, cut up, for each group of

three to four students

Dictionaries may be useful

For Homework B, a copy of the

sheet, not cut up, for each

student

1 Divide the students into groups of three to four.

2 Give each group a set of Adjective and Noun cards and ask them to find appropriate adjective-

noun collocations. There is a range of possible collocations, so encourage students to see how

many different collocations they can find, using dictionaries if necessary. There are at least three

possible adjectives for each noun. Check some collocations with the class and write any difficult

vocabulary on the board.

3 When students are familiar with all the vocabulary, ask them to sort the cards back into nouns and

adjectives. Then ask students to turn the cards face down and spread them on the table, the

nouns on one half, the adjectives on the other.

4 Students take turns to play. The first student turns over two cards – one adjective and one

noun – and places them on the table so that the others can see. The student says whether they

think the two words collocate successfully. If they say ‘no’, they put the cards back in the same

places, face down. If they say ‘yes’ , the student has to produce a sentence using the collocation

correctly. The rest of the group judges whether the sentence is acceptable, and if it is, the student

keeps the two cards.

5 Students should try to remember where the cards are so that they can pick correct pairs.

The students continue, until all the noun cards have been taken. Monitor and help as necessary.

6 The student with the most cards at the end is the winner.

Key vocabulary

Suggested collocations:

cobbled/hidden/winding alleys

abandoned/isolated/sandy

beaches

craggy/ precipitous/ towering

cliffs

dramatic/rocky/rugged

coastline

parched/rain-soaked/

undulating countryside

barren/parched/sun-drenched

deserts

dense/lush/verdant forests

dusky/windswept /wooded hills

dusky/remote/shimmering

horizons

grassy/leafy/lush meadows

breathtaking/dramatic/

spectacular panoramas

jagged/snow-capped/towering

peaks

barren/craggy/crumbling rocks

grassy/undulating/wooded

slopes

ice-cool/meandering/

shimmering streams

cobbled/tree-lined/winding

streets

hidden/picturesque/plunging

valleys

abundant/lush/overgrown

vegetation

breathtaking/dramatic/

spectacular views

ancient/crumbling/remote

villages

Variation

For a quicker game, students play in groups of three to four and begin by selecting just one Adjective

card to match each of the twenty Noun cards. They then play with those forty cards and put the

unwanted cards aside. They place the forty cards face down on the table. Players take it in turns to

turn over two cards. If they find a collocating pair, they keep the cards and have another turn. If they do

not find a pair, they put back the two cards in the same places. The winner is the player with most

cards at the end of the game.

Follow-up

Discuss with the class which of the possible collocations for each noun would be most appropriate for

the area where they are.

Homework

A Write the text for a tourist brochure based either on a picture, or their memory of a place they

know well.

B Choose ten adjectives from the lesson and find one new noun which collocates with each of

them, e.g. snow-capped mountains .

Colourful holiday collocations

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Adjectives

windswept

barren

sun-drenched

meandering

breathtaking

jagged

dusky

rocky

snow-capped

winding

verdant

parched

rugged

precipitous

craggy

isolated

dense

spectacular

abundant

picturesque

cobbled

lush

plunging

dramatic

undulating

sandy

hidden

leafy

grassy

ice-cool

ancient

crumbling

towering

remote

overgrown

abandoned

wooded

rain-soaked

tree-lined

shimmering

Nouns

horizons

slopes

villages

vegetation

streams

cliffs

alleys

valleys

beaches

meadows

rocks

peaks

forests

countryside

deserts

views

panoramas

streets

coastline

hills

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