1 Check you understand the highlighted words. Then in groups, say which holidays you would/wouldn’t like to go on and why.
1 a one-day excursion to a theme park
2 a weekend city break in Abu Dhabi
3 a school trip to the University of Jordan
4 a package holiday to a Greek island
5 a three-week cruise in the Caribbean
6 a scientific expedition to the Antarctic
7 An adventure holiday in an African safari park
8 a nine-month journey around the world
Students’ own answers
2 Read the holiday reviews below. What kinds of holiday from Exercise 1 do they describe?
Answers:
Review 1: a school trip; Review 2: a package holiday.
3 In pairs, complete the table using the highlighted verbs from the reviews. Add words and phrases from the reviews to make collocations.
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Transport |
go/travel by train, coach, … take the underground, … |
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Accommodation |
stay in a five-star hotel, a budget hotel, … |
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Activities |
go climbing, put on your sunscreen, … |
Answers:
Transport:
go/travel by bus, taxi, underground, plane; take a train, a coach, a bus, a taxi; leave; miss the bus; get a taxi; board the plane; take off ; fly to Crete; land an hour late
Accommodation:
put up the tents; arrive at the campsite; check in a hotel
Activities:
go kayaking, windsurfing, mountain biking, hiking, sightseeing; visit museums; sunbathe.
4 Study Watch Out! and choose the correct verbs to complete the sentences. Use the holiday reviews to help you.
1 We got/went a taxi to the airport.
2 I stayed/travelled in a great hotel in Dubai.
3 What time did you arrive in/at the station?
4 We boarded/missed the plane early.
5 We put on / up the tent.
6 Yesterday we arrived in/at Thailand.
| WATCH OUT! We say arrive in a city/country or at a station/ airport, etc., NOT arrive to. We say leave for a place, NOT leave to. When travelling by plane, take off = leave |
5 SPEAKING Imagine a holiday. In pairs, ask and answer the questions. Use the vocabulary from Exercises 3 and 4.
1 How did you get there?
2 Where did you stay?
3 What did you do?
Students’ own answers
Workbook
1 ★ Match the kinds of holiday from the box with the definitions.
| adventure holiday cruise excursion expedition journey package holiday |
1 This is a holiday on a boat. cruise
2 Explorers go on this to dangerous places. expedition
3 You can go climbing. adventure holiday
4 This is a short trip, maybe just for one day. excursion
5 This includes your flights, hotel and food. package holiday
6 This is when you travel from one place to another. journey
2 ★ What kinds of holidays are they? Match adverts a–f with the holidays from Exercise 1.
3 ★ Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.
1 We arrived at / in the airport late in the evening.
2 We’re going to leave for / to Paris at five in the morning!
3 Our plane took off / landed an hour late – we were really bored waiting at the airport.
4 What time are we arriving at / in Venice?
5 We’re travelling on / by bus from the airport to our hotel.
6 Did you stay to / in a nice hotel in Prague?
7 The pilot said that we are going to take off / land at the airport in twenty minutes.
8 Nawal checked in /on the hotel immediately after she landed in Rome.
4 ★★ Complete the mini-conversations with one word in each gap.
Lubna Hurry up! We don’t want to 1 miss our train.
Hala Don’t worry. We can 2 get a taxi to the station.
Mother How was the journey?
Issa Tiring. We 3 boarded the plane at 6.30 but we didn’t 4 take off until eight o’clock. We 5 landed in Croatia at half past eleven and got to the hotel after midnight.
Omar Taxis from the airport are expensive. Let’s 6 take the train into the centre of Madrid.
Farid OK, but what about when we 7 arrive at the station? Can we walk from there to the hotel?
