Unit 10 Travel and holidays

10a Holiday experiences

Vocabulary travel and holidays
1 Complete the three adverts with these words.
cam era cam p ing caterin g cruise
package sightseeing sleeping bags
cruise
See the world by sea and take a luxury 1.......................
with G&A Ferries. Your voyage can last for one month,
two months or half a year, with regular stops and
2........................tours
sightseeing of some of the world’s most
famous cities. Choose between regular and economy
five-star
rooms or 3........................cabins.
camping
The O utdoor Store con supply all y o u r4 ....................
needs this summer with high quality tents, cooking
sleeping
equipm ent, 5 ....... bags
— .......... -..ond the very best in
6 camera ........... equipm ent to photograph w ildlife.
Book online at www.holidaystop.com. We have great deals on
accommodation for every kind o f holidaymaker, including
self- 7..............................apartments
catering for the independent
traveller. Or perhaps you want to travel with a group on one
o f our all-inclusive8..............................
package tours.
3 Choose the correct form (past simple or past
perfect simple) to complete the conversations.
Conversation 1
A: 1 Did you ever go /Had you ever been to the Atlas
five-s tar
Mountains before?
B: No. I went to Morocco in 1999, but only to the
cities. There 2 wasn't /hadn't been time on that
trip to travel to the mountains as well.
Conversation 2
A: I didn't know that Sandy3 left /had left his job!
W hen4 did that happen /had that happened?
B: Months ago.5 He wanted/He'd wanted to leave
for ages and travel abroad.61 received / I'd
received a postcard from him yesterday from
New Zealand.
Conversation 3
A: Why are Josie and Bryony back from their
European tour already?
B: Well, by the time they reached Paris, the car
7 broke /had broken down three times, so they
8gave / had given up.
Reading a holiday story
4 Read the story about a holiday on page 77. Answer
the questions.

Grammar past perfect simple 1 Why had the woman chosen the cottage?
It had looked great in the brochure
2 Complete the holiday story with the past perfect 2 Why did the journey take longer than
simple form of the verbs. expected?
There'd been a delay on the motorway
B efore 1 visited 3 Why did it look like someone was living in the
n o rth e rn Norway, cottage?
had been it was full of furniture , books, pictures and objects
(be) to m any parts 4 Why did she wake up on the first night?
o f th e w o rld ,
She thought she heard someone in the hause
including th e
5 What was in her daughter's bedroom
so u th ern m ost
wardrobe?
p o in t o f P atagonia.
had seen clothes
(see) m any natural 6 What was strange when they returned from a
w o n d e rs , b u t I day at the beach?
3 imagined (n o t im ag ine) th a t a place so n ear my
The clothes were back
hadn't
ow n hom e co u n try o f Ireland w o u ld be so beau tiful. W e 7 Who was staying across the field from them?
4 had driven (drive) all d ay up th e coast o f N o rw ay he owner
and finally w e 5 ____________
had arrived (arrive) ju s t as th e sun 8 Why was the woman surprised?
w as d isap p earin g . A b o ve us w e re th e n o rth e rn lights in Because he asked them
th e sky. T h e colou rs w e re a m a zin g and th e y seem e d to
dance. W e 6 (n o t exp ect) th a t th e y w o u ld
hadn't expected
be so stunning.

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o o o Listening details of the story
5 2 .1 3 Listen to the woman in the story from

Holiday Horror Stories Exercise 4 felling her friend about the holiday.
The details in the conversation are different to the
story. Underline the differences in the story.
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It had looked great in the brochure. It’s true 6 Look back at the story in Exercise 4. Complete the
that there hadn’t been pictures of the cottage, questions about the story with who, what, when and
but there were photographs of the sea, empty an auxiliary verb where necessary.
beaches next to the cottage for the children 1 .......................
When did the family arrive at the cottage?
to play on, and nice long walks in the nearby
forest with the dog. 2 Where did the family drive from?
3 .......................
Who found clothes in the wardrobe?
We arrived late at night after a six-hour drive. 4 .......................
Who emptied the wardrobe?
It’s normally three hours from London, but
there had been a delay on the motorway. The What
5 ....................... happened when they returned
address on the booking form said ‘Green Tree from the beach?
Cottage’ on the Old Farm Road. In fact, we had 6 .......................
Who thought there was a simple
to drive across a field to reach the place. Inside, explanation?
the cottage wasn’t very clean. In fact, it was 7 .......................
Where did the woman see a light?
full of furniture, books, pictures and objects in
boxes. It was like someone else lived here. 8 .......................
Who appeared at the door of the shed?
9 ...................
Where ... they leave?
Anyway, it was late and we went to bed. I woke
up once because I thought I heard someone in 7 Match the questions in Exercise 6 with the answers
the house. In the morning, my daughter said (a-i). Then check your answers in the story in
there were clothes in her wardrobe. She was Exercise 4.
right. It was full of clothes. We emptied the a Late at night.
wardrobe and put the clothes in a box. b The mother and the daughter.
Later that day we had been to the beach (which c The next day
wasn’t next to the house but about two miles away) d Her husband.
and when we got back the clothes were back in the e A man.
wardrobe. My daughter’s clothes were in the box f The clothes were back in the wardrobe,
on top of the wardrobe. I wanted to leave but my g At the end of a field.
husband thought there was a simple explanation. h London.
i The daughter.
In the evening, as it got darker, I noticed a
light at the end of the field. We walked across 8 Which questions in Exercise 6 are subject
with the dog and we saw a small shed among questions? Which are object questions?
the trees. We knocked on the door and a man Write S or O.
appeared. He was the owner of the holiday 1 O 6 ..............
cottage and lived in his shed when visitors O
S
stayed. He also asked us not to move his clothes 2 ...........
O 7
because he needed to use the house from time 3 ...........
S 8 S
to time. I couldn’t believe it! The next day, we 4 S 9 O
loaded the car and left.
5 S