1. Your holidays
Tell your partner about some of the places where you have been on holiday.
Do you usually go somewhere different or do you go back to the same place every year?
What are the pros and cons of going to the same place every year and going to a different place every year?

2. [pictures of Brighton – in the rain!]
Can you guess
where this is?
[pictures of Brighton – in the rain!]

3. Have you ever been to Brighton before?
[Map of UK
showing Brighton]

4. Listen to the song “Brighton in the Rain”
Does the singer visit different places?
Where has he been?

5. Check your answers:
Sing along!

6. Some questions to discuss:
Do you think the singer is happy?
How do his travel experiences compare with yours?
Have you done any of the things he has never done?
Would you like to do any of the things he has never done?

7. Focus on form What tense do we use to talk about life experiences?
How do we form it? +: -: ?:
Short answers:

8. Focus on meaning Do we know when the experience happened?
Does it matter when the experience happened?

9. Detective!
Look at these lines from the song. What do the words in bold mean? Find more examples in the song. How would you translate the words into your language?
I’ve never been to Athens and I’ve never been to Rome.
I’ve only seen the pyramids in picture books at home.
I’ve always spent my holidays in Brighton in the rain!

10. Look at these questions based on the song
Look at these questions based on the song. What do the words in bold mean?
Have you ever been to Athens?
Have you ever been to Rome?
Work in pairs. Make some more questions based on ideas from the song. Change partners. Ask and answer the questions