“Create a theme park”
ACTIVITY
Students read about Disneyland
Paris and create their own theme
area for the theme park.
GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY
adjectives
describing theme park rides
LEVEL
A2 and above
TIME
POSSIBLE VOCABULARY
cannon
haunted
ride
roller coaster
sick
Picture credits
All images courtesy of Disneyland Resort
teaching
notes
WHAT TO DO
1. Draw an outline of Mickey Mouse’s head on the board. Inside the head write the words
Paris, Orlando, Los Angeles, Hong Kong. Under the head write the following caption:
“1992-2012 Share the magic”. Ask students to guess what all of these have in common.
Give them copies of the first activity page and ask them to read the introduction to check.
2. Ask the students if they have ever been to a theme park. What words do they associate
with theme parks? In pairs, students complete the adjectives on the activity page. Check
answers.
3. Tell students that in the next activity, they are going to role play the people in the
pictures. Pre teach the following expressions: I feel sick, I’m scared.
Now ask students to look at the dialogues. Tell them to read each dialogue and match it
to one of the pictures 1 to 5. Check answers as a class and read out the dialogues, going
over pronunciation.
4. Ask students to work in pairs. Tell them choose one of the dialogues. Give them three
minutes to try and memorise the dialogue. Then ask them to cover the dialogues and say
them, only looking at the photos. When they have finished, ask pairs to create a similar
dialogue to go with photo 6 or 7. Circulate and help pairs, then ask them to present their
new dialogues to the class.
5. Write the following questions on the board.
How often do you go to theme parks?
What theme parks do you know?
What’s the best part of a theme park and what’s the worst?
Ask students to ask and answer the questions, then do some feedback on this as a class.
6. Explain that now they are going to have a chance to design their own theme park. Give
students copies of the next activity page and ask them to tread the information about
imagineers. Now put the students into small groups (of 3 or 4). Tell them to create a new
themed section for Disneyland Paris. They should give their section a name and complete
the brief description of it. They can also include a picture or draw their ideas on the map.
Circulate and help groups as needed.
7. Once groups have finished, have each group present their theme park to the rest of the
class. Who are the best imagineers in the class?
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ANSWERS
Adjectives
1. amazing
2. incredible
3. scary
4. fun
5. giant
6. great
Dialogues
a. 2
b. 1
c. 3
d. 5
e. 4
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This month Disneyland Paris is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Construction started on the theme park in 1988 and it
opened to the public on April 12, 1992. After a disappointing start, the park changed its name from EuroDisney to
Disneyland Paris in 1994. In the years that followed, new rides including Space Mountain were opened, and a second
park was opened. In 2008, Disneyland Paris became the most visited tourist destination in Europe, and last year it
welcomed its 250 millionth visitor.
Complete the words to
make adjectives to
describe things in a
theme park.
_ m _ z _ ng
_ ncr _ d_ ble
sc _ ry
f_n
g _ _ nt
gr_ _ t
a day
at
disneyland
4
A
GIRL:
1
2
5
6
D
Look out, here comes another
one!
BOY: YAHHHH!
GIRL: I love this roller coaster!
BOY: So do I.
B
BOY: Where
are we?
MAN: I don’t know. Were we here
before?
BOY: No, we weren’t. Which way do
we go now, left or right?
MAN: Go left: I see some people
there.
What’s that?
E
WOMAN: It’s the Cannon of Space
Mountain.
GIRL: Oh, look, a haunted house!
MAN: What does it do?
BOY: I don’t want to go in.
WOMAN: It goes up, I think. Very fast. GIRL: Why not? Are you scared?
MAN: I don’t know. I don’t think I
BOY: No, I’m tired.
want to go on it.
GIRL: You’re scared.
BOY: No, I’m not.
MAN:
3
7
Look at the pictures above of a day at
Disneyland. What are the people
saying in the pictures? Match the
pictures 1 to 5 with a conversation in
the theme park. Then prepare a
similar conversation for pictures 6
and 7. When you finish, imagine you
are at Disneyland for the day and
role-play the conversations with a
partner.
C
I don’t feel very well. Make it
stop.
WOMAN: It’s OK; don’t look down.
GIRL: Oh, no. I feel sick.
WOMAN: Here, here’s a bag.
GIRL:
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Disneyland Park
Hotel Cheyenne
Hotel Santa Fe
Hotel New York
Disneyland Hotel
Disney Village
Sequoia Lodge
Walt Disney Studios
Newport Bay Club Hotel
Golf Disneyland
Davy Crockett Ranch
create
a theme
area
Imagineers of the future
Imagineer is the Disney name for a person who creates the rides and attractions at
theme parks. The first imagineers made rides that reflected the world of Disney’s
cartoon characters. Imagineers today need to have a great imagination. Each new
roller coaster needs to be taller, faster and more exciting than the one before. Each new building needs to be
more exotic and more fantastic than the one before.
Be an imagineer
Look at the map above. Imagine you
are a part of a team of imagineers.
Disney wants you to design for a new
theme area for Disneyland Paris.
What is its name? What do you want to
have there? Write your ideas for your
new area of Disneyland on the right.
You can draw a picture of your idea in
the space above. Present your ideas to
the rest of the class. Who are the best
imagineers?
Our PROPOSAL for a
NEW THEME AREA in
DISNEYLAND PARIS
Complete the text with your own ideas for a theme area.
Our theme area is called __________________. It has more than
(number) ____________ (adjective) ____________ rides. There
are (noun) ____________ and (adjective) ____________ (noun)
____________. The special attraction is a/an (adjective)
____________ (noun) ____________ . We also have ___________,
___________ and __________.
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