Unit 11
The Worldwide holiday & festival site
http://www.holidayfestival.com/
Festivals.com
http://www.festivals.com/

Find a festival site and ask your learners to give a brief rundown of their yearly calendar. They could talk about Christmas, New Year, their routine for the summer break and include as many of their local festivals as they can remember.

Unit 12
The trainline.com
www.thetrainline.com
Railtrack
http://www.railtrack.co.uk/

Online rail information and ticket sales. Use it to find information about train times. Put your students into pairs one of them is asking for information how far/how long etc and the second has to find the answers using information from the site.

Unit 13
Dumb laws
www.dumblaws.com

Strange laws from countries around the world. All fairly short and manageable although as the teacher you may well have to provide some help. Get your students to search some different areas, preferably their own countries and then to share their favourites with the class. Make sure they use can/can’t as much as possible but where appropriate.

Unit 14
Multi-map.com
http://uk2.multimap.com/

Click on area of the UK and you’ll be able to zoom in as far as street level. Excellent resource for direction exercises. Use it for cities that your students know or to find famous landmarks in London. You could prepare a kind of treasure hunt by giving them directions from one place and if they follow the instructions correctly they end up at…

Unit 15
Postcards from England
http://www.cardengland.com/
Blue Mountain
http://www.bluemountain.com/

Lots of sites on the net where you could send virtual cards, many funny, some serious, most free. If your class is studying in an English speaking country then ask them to send a virtual card to a friend, to a classmate or to you, (make sure you get a copy.) They should write about an experience they had during their studies or during their last holidays.

Unit 16
Earliest Memory
http://www.exploratorium.edu

Look through the earliest memories of people who have contributed. Use them as a memory prompt for your students' earliest memories. Most of the memories are short but learners may well need some help. Make sure they focus on the past forms being used.

Unit 17
Recipes - Yahoo.com
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Food_and_Drink

Choose a dish from your area make notes on the basic ingredients and method and give a summary to the class. (This should be kept as simple as possible.) Alternatively find the strangest food you can, again make notes on ingredients and method and tell the rest of the class.

Unit 18
Biography.com
www.biography.com

Great bank of biographies, all fairly short and manageable. Why not ask your students to think of a very famous person look them up on the site make notes on their basic details, then ask the other students to ask questions in order to guess the identity. E.g. When were they born? What is their nationality? (It could also be played as a yes/no game. Alternatively one student could give the class one piece of information at a time the quicker the other team guesses the identity the more points they get.

Unit 19
Describing People
http://www.kodak.com/

You’ll need to do a bit of searching but as you’d expect there are lots of very usable pictures and plenty of pictures of people. You could print some off before class or use the material online. Get a good variety of pictures of people and ask your students to describe them. Ask your students to print a selection of the pictures and to describe one, others in the group have to guess who is being described.

Unit 20
Travel - Yahoo.com
www.travel.yahoo.com

Choose a travel site and find information about the places your students went on holiday. Let them use this in order to give a mini presentation or a written homework with pictures and descriptions they found from the Internet. Encourage them to talk about how they travelled and what the journey itself was like.

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