Lesson Plan: Amusement Parks

Lesson Level: Senior  Duration: 45 Minutes

Lesson Title: Amusement Parks (Senior Version)

Grammar and Vocabulary

Vocabulary for amusement parks and rides.

Lesson Objectives

Students will practice listening for specific information.

Students will practice discussion skills in a design task.

Materials Required

Audio descriptions of four amusement parks.¹

Poster of questions ²

Paper (A4) for one sheet per group.

Pens for drawing.

Preparation

Prepare resources.

Procedure

1

Tell class that lesson is about amusement parks/them parks

Elicit or give vocabulary for these words

Amusement Park

Theme Park

Haunted House

Lego

building bricks

ride

roller-coaster

parade

attraction

2

Put the questions on the board.

Play the audio.

Check answers with students.

If still some unanswered questions play again, one park at a time and elicit answers.

3

Put students into groups of 4-6.

Add this question.

Your group is going to visit one of these parks.

Talk together and choose which park to visit.

4

Elicit responses.

5.

Write on board.

Your group will make your own theme park.

What is your theme?

What can I do at your park?

What can I buy at your park?

Where is your park (what country/what city)

Why is your park the best.

Draw a picture of your park..

6

Each group describe own park.

Write main points on board.

7

Get class to vote on the best park.

Notes

1.

Tapescript

Disneyland is the most famous theme park in America. It is in California. Every year more than ten million people visit it to ride on the roller-coasters, visit the haunted house, see Cinderella's fairy-tale castle or shake hands with Mickey Mouse.

Every day there is a big parade of all the famous cartoon characters.
It was opened in 1955. Since then Disney Parks have opened in Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Legoland is a different kind of amusement park. It is in Denmark and is visited every year by about two million people. What makes it different?

Every attraction at the park is made from children's building bricks called "Lego". There are models of many famous buildings from around the world for you to look at and enjoy including the Palace Museum. Since it opened in1968 more than fifty million guests have visited the park.

Ocean Park, in Hong Kong, receives about seven and a half million guests every year. It has over eighty rides and attractions including four roller-coasters but it also has  places where you can see animals. There are pandas and Jelly Fish and even a Killer Whale. Ocean Park was opened in 1977 and more than half the visitors come from Mainland China.

The strangest theme park of all is in South Korea. It is all about toilets and WCs. It is called the Restroom Cultural Park and is in the city of Suwon. Everything there is all about toilets. There are toilet themed rides, toilet themed art galleries, a toilet museum and shops selling toilet gifts.

2. Questions.

Which park gets two million visitors a year? (Legoland)

Where can you go on rides and also see pandas? (Ocean Park)

What is the them of the park that has art galleries? (toilets)

Who can you meet at Disneyland? (Mickey Mouse)

Which park is in South Korea? (Restroom Cultural Park)

How many roller-coasters are there at Ocean Park? (4)

What is different about Legoland? (all made from childrens bricks)

Whose castle is at Disneyland? (Cinderella)
Which park was first to open? (Disneyland)
Which park has had more than 50 million visitors since  it opened in 1968?
Which park has the most Chinese visitors?
What can you see in the Restroom Cultural Park? (Toilets)