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5: Holidays and Festivals
Task B:
A Tarsia puzzle
Task description
Students create a Tarsia puzzle around the idea of a trip to the target language country and develop
questions and answers related to the theme of holidays.
(i) Revise vocabulary from the previous task and build on it using the 'Tarsia questions' template.
(ii) Start by explaining and showing what a tarsia puzzle is.
(iii) Ask students to make their own tarsia, cut it out and exchange with another student to complete.
Learning
Outcomes
• Match questions and answers based on holidays.
• Use simple questions and answers with support to create a puzzle activity based on a holiday for their
classmates.
• Learn about places to visit and things to do while on holiday by playing games.
Observations for teachers
Resources
• Make a tarsia by scanning
the QR code:
• Tarsia questions template
(page 60).
• Devices.
• Printer.
• Scissors.
Tarsia puzzles are a jigsaw or domino
activity form of puzzle that students have to
solve. In a tarsia puzzle, each piece has a
question or answer in it. As students match
the pieces together correctly, answers to
questions are revealed. Each triangular piece
fits into another, creating a perfect triangle
shape at the end.
Expected time taken 1 to 2 hours
Names of countries, towns and regions:
München, Köln, Wien, Genf, Berlin, Stuttgart, Bern, Zell am See, Österreich
Wohin fährst du in den Urlaub?
Ich fahre nach Deutschland/nach Berlin etc
Key Language
Categories of people (family members, friends, etc.):
Mit wem fährst du?
Ich fahre mit meiner Familie/ mit meinem Vater/ mit meiner Mutter/ mit meinen Freunden etc
Seasons, days and months:
Wann fährst du in den Urlaub?
Ich fahre am Montag/am Samstag/ im Juli/ im Herbst etc
Types of accommodation:
Wo übernachtest du?
Ich übernachte in einem Hotel/ in einer Wohnung/ auf einem Campingplatz/ bei Freunden etc
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