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This is an activity to practise vocabulary about going on holiday in several tenses through translation.

You can easily adapt this resource to different abilities and could be helpful as a bit of end of term fun or to break up a topic with a ‘fizzy lesson’.

Some ideas for usage:

1. Give one student a sentence each at random around the room – they must talk to each other to find the missing sentences and translate them into English in the correct order.
2. Post these around the classroom or corridors (wherever you are allowed!!) for students to complete a translation treasure hunt.
3. Adapt the sentences into a tangled translation (put some parts in English) and give them the target to get it all into one language or both languages, depending on ability level.
4. Adapt the text into a gap fill – give them a sheet with missing words to complete and send them around to look for the answers.
5. Play bingo – give students the whole paragraph on the board and then give them one strip each. Read the sentences out in a random order – last one standing wins.
6. Speedy translation – in groups the students must reassemble to text and translate it correctly. You could remove the numbers if you wish.
7. Find a sentence with the ‘X’ tense / find the sentence with ‘X’ word.

A present tense freebie KS3 version is available here: /teaching-resource/resource-13281050