Unit 6 Vocabulary

4 Match the adjectives from exercise 3 with the

Travel & transport descriptions below.
1 Something which is not the same is
1 Read the sentences and complete the words.
___________.
1 Once the a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ has taken off, you will
2 An area of town where people live is
be free to use the toilet.
___________.
2 A _ t _ _ s _ _ _ _, the Concorde could travel at
3 A person who wants to be very successful is
2,180 kph. That’s twice the speed of sound.
___________.
3 If you need help, please contact a member of the
4 A person who does a lot of sport and exercise is
c _ _ _.
___________.
4 Once we are i _ t _ _ a _ _, snacks and drinks
5 Something related to money and its organisation
will be served.
is ___________.
5 One of the advantages of being a f _ _ _ _ _
6 A person who has a lot of skills and knows how
a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is that you travel the world.
to do things is ___________.
6 I’m sorry, but I’m going to be late. There is a
terrible t _ _ _ _ _ _ j _ _ on the motorway!
Travel & holidays
2 Put the letters in the underlined words in order
to complete the sentences. 5 Choose the correct options.
1 My mum loves cruises. Last year she went on a 1 Don’t eat out on the main street because all of
two-week goevay around the Mediterranean. the restaurants are tourist traps / off the beaten
____________ track.
2 Shall we wait until shur ouhr has finished? I hate 2 Dave and I are planning on going on a city
being stuck in traffic at this time of day. break / back-packing around Asia when we’ve
____________ finished university.
3 The dudunonerrg is a great way to avoid busy 3 Sharon has booked a tourist trap / city break to
roads when travelling around London. Lisbon this weekend.
____________ 4 I hate touristy places. I prefer to go to places that
4 I live in the centre of the city so I can’t imagine are off the beaten track / sink or swim.
mgnmuitco into work every day. ____________ 5 My gran is always going on cheap package
5 More flights nur between Madrid and Barcelona holidays / holiday resorts with her friends.
than between any other cities in Spain. 6 New staff in the hotel are left to sink or swim /
____________ go hiking. They have to learn very quickly.
6 I’m afraid we’re going to be late. We’ve been
stuck in a fitcarf mja for over an hour. 6 Complete the sentences with words from the
box.
____________
at a holiday resort away from it all deep-sea diving
out of your comfort zone sightseeing with the flow
Adjective suffixes
1 I love to go _______________ on the first day of
3 Match the word halves to the suffixes to make any city break.
adjectives. 2 You really need to step _______________ and
1 act -cal go somewhere exciting on holiday this year.
2 ambiti -able 3 One day I’m going to go _______________ in
3 cap -ic the Caribbean Sea.
4 differ -al 4 Work has been really stressful so all I want to do
5 resident -ive is go somewhere to get _______________.
6 econom -ent 5 We’re not feeling very adventurous so this year
7 glob -ous we have decided to stay _______________.
8 music -ial 6 Dan’s not good at planning. He tends to arrive in
a destination and simply go _______________.

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