Divide your class into groups and give them a budget. Ask them to organise a short trip for themselves. Encourage them to browse a variety of locations i.e. hot/cold, near/far, beach/city. When the students feedback make sure they provides some reasons and use the ing form with future meaning as long as their decision is very clear. To reinforce this point it would be sensible to ensure that they know exactly how they are travelling at what time and for how long.

Unit 32
Timeout magazine
http://www.timeout.com/london/index.html

Excellent resource and ideas for what to do when you’re bored. Choose between most of the major European cities. Ask your students to imagine that they want to go out this evening but don’t know what to do, one person makes suggestions the other makes excuses for not wanting to go.

Unit 33
Diaries
http://members.diaryland.com/

Any search for online journals will come up with hundreds of examples, as always it’s important to be selective and make sure you have a good choice before the lesson. When you have some examples you could do a grammar safari. Ask your students to find as many examples as possible for the target language was/were make sure they make a note of the pronoun.

Unit 34
Murder mystery games
http://nowtv.com/mystery/index.htm

It’ll take some patience and the students will need your help, but this could be a really motivating exercise. Designed for native speakers but all in very manageable chunks. The object is to solve the mystery by answering the questions.

Unit 35 & 36
Looking Back
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/

Look back at past television, film and music from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Ask your students to look back at a relevant decade and do a bit of remembering about what kind of music they liked, films they saw, TV they watched. Then they can compare with others in the class by saying the year and what they did.

Unit 37
Famous People
www.biography.com

Before the lesson prepare some questions about some famous people e.g. when was … born? How old is … Try it as a running dictation divide the class into groups you stay away from the computers with the questions and as your students come back with the correct answers then they get the next question. The first group to correctly answer all the questions is the winner.

Unit 38
Dead celebrities
www.biography.com

Before the lesson make a list of some very famous dead people. Divide the class into groups and give each one a couple of names. Ask them to go to the above site and find out some basic information (You could also help them with this by preparing some questions to answer e.g. Where did …live? Why was…famous? Etc Then as an open class, play twenty questions, during which students have to guess the identity of the person by asking questions with did and was.

Unit 39
New York
http://go-newyorkcity.com/

Huge list of links for New York includes all the museums theatres, shops restaurants and much more. Encourage students to look around areas of personal interest and to report to the others where they would like to go and why. You could ask them in groups to plan an itinerary for a weekend in the city.