Travel and Holidays ESL Worksheets and Lessons
211 worksheets, 63 lessons, 11 vocabulary decks and 21 shadowing scripts · Places & travel
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Travel & holidays worksheets
211 printable worksheets with answer keys; the 24 most used, easiest level first.
Travel & holidays lessons
63 ready lessons for the four skills: teach on the board, set online or print.
Travel & holidays vocabulary
11 word decks with meanings, examples and pronunciation: flip, quiz, print as flashcards or play as a game.
Travel & holidays shadowing
Listen, repeat, record and compare: short scripts for pronunciation and fluency.
About Travel & holidays
Travel is one of the main reasons people learn English, and the topic offers both practical survival language and a wealth of stories to tell. Few topics generate as much genuine speaking as holidays do.
Kids and A1 learners talk about holiday places (beach, mountains, city), packing a suitcase and weather, using I'm going to... A2 learners handle airports, hotels and tickets, describe past holidays with the past simple and plan trips with going to. B1 learners narrate travel stories using past continuous and past perfect, deal with problems when traveling and write reviews. B2 to C2 learners discuss tourism's impact, overtourism, gap years and travel writing, with rich descriptive language and collocations such as off the beaten track.
Here you will find printable worksheets, ready-to-teach lessons and vocabulary flashcard decks on travel and holidays, organized by level.
Teaching tips: Travel & holidays
- Set up an airport role-play with check-in, security and passport control stations and rotate learners through them.
- Contrast travel, trip and journey with example sentences, as learners often use "travel" as a countable noun.
- Ask learners to tell a holiday disaster story, real or invented, to practice narrative tenses.
- Use real hotel reviews at B1 and above for reading, then have learners write their own review.
Questions teachers ask
What is the difference between travel, trip and journey?
Travel is usually a verb or an uncountable noun (I love travel), a trip is a visit somewhere and back (a business trip), and a journey is the act of going from one place to another (a long journey).
What travel language do A2 learners need?
Booking and buying tickets, checking in at a hotel or airport, asking for information and describing past holidays with the past simple.
Is travel a good topic for exam preparation?
Yes. Holidays and tourism appear regularly across Cambridge exams from A2 Key to C1 Advanced, in both speaking and writing.