8 READING &

LISTENING EXTRA
STARTER UNIT 8

HOLIDAY
1 What’s your idea of a perfect holiday?
Which of the following things are
important to you?

QUIZ
• sun and good weather
• sports and outdoor activities
• museums and art galleries
• shopping
• good food
• nightlife
What’s the perfect holiday for you?
2 Work in pairs. Do the quiz together. Do our quiz and find out!
Are your answers similar?

3 Match the quiz answers to the types of

holidays. 1 It’s the first day of your holiday.
Mostly As culture and city tours What do you do?
Mostly Bs active holidays
A get up early and go for a run
Mostly Cs relaxing beach holidays
B stay in bed until late and just relax
4 Look at the quiz again. Choose a new
C find a map of the museums
answer for each question that is true
for you.
2 The most important thing about a
5 Compare your answers with a partner.
holiday for you is
6 8.1 Listen to some people A doing new sports.
talking about their holidays. What B sun and sea.
question are they answering?
What was the best of your holiday? C interesting places to visit.
7 Listen again and write the answer for
each person.
Person 1: went to the beach           
3 Your idea of a bad holiday is
Person 2: did water sport            A shopping – that’s really boring!
Person 3: museums            B visiting monuments and art galleries –
I hate that!
8 Complete the extracts with the verbs
C doing sports all day! No thank you!
did, went and was.
1 We went to the beach every
day and did nothing at
all! It was perfect!
2 The water sports, no doubt about it.
We did a lot of different
sports. It was fantastic!
3 The museums, definitely the
museums. We went to see
them all!

9 Work in pairs and discuss.

1 What was the best thing about your
day yesterday?
2 What was the best thing about last
weekend?
3 What was the best thing about your
last holiday?

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