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CONTENT
• Let’s Start! • Let’s Explore! • Let’s Practice! • Extension Activity • Target Words • Learning Points

Let’s Start!

Let's catch up with Sally and Vanessa! Where are they now?

Learning Outcome Can Do Statements

Accurately use information about travel • I can talk about things to do on a trip.
and vacations in social situations. • I can ask and say where places are.
• I can talk about what people do and what people
Ask your partner: are doing.

• What places would you recommend to

a tourist visiting your country?
• What things could a tourist do when
visiting your city?

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Let’s Explore!

Sally is talking to Vanessa. What do you think* they are talking about?

* Listen to how Sally says “what do you think”. In spoken English, it's common to combine the words:
what, do and you.

Instructions: Read the text aloud.

Vanessa: Hey Sals!

Sally: Hey V! How's it going? How's Mexico?
Vanessa: Hot! I feel like I'm melting!
Sally: How's your Spanish?
Vanessa: Good! I get lots of chances to practice, especially when I'm shopping.
Sally: Awesome! What other things are you doing?
Vanessa: Well I'm going to a cooking class.
Sally: Cool. I'm going on a bike tour today. I'm looking forward to it! I'm going to
take lots of photos!
Vanessa: Whoa, that sounds fun! Where is it? Where do you go?
Sally: The tour starts right beside the Metro stop. It's a quick walk from my hotel
room. We go sightseeing to a few of the famous sites. Then, take a break at
a cafe near the Tuileries Gardens. I'm sending you a picture of my outfit!
What do you think?

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Let’s Practice!

What are you doing? Practicing the Present Continuous?

Instructions: Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence. Use one of the words
in brackets.

Sally: Hey! How’s it ______ (doin/doing/going) ?

Vanessa: I feel like I’m ______ (melt/melting/going)! What are you ______
(going/doing/do) today?

Sally: I’m ______ (biking/going/taking) a bike tour! I’m ______ ______

(look forward/looking forward/looking backward) to it! We are going ______
(sightseeing/sightsee/taking) to a few of the famous sites in Paris!

Let’s Practice!

Sally’s in Paris!

Instructions: Read the dialogue. Complete the sentences. Write the missing words. Use
Tuileries Garden, Metro stop, near, cafe, Where, right, beside, hotel room.

1) ______ does the tour start?

2) The tour starts ______ ______ the ____________ .

3) It’s a quick walk from my ____________ .

4) We take a break at a ______ ______ the ____________.

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Extension Activity

Find out about a bike tour!

Instructions: Complete the following steps. Fill in the Self-Assessment.

a) Choose a city.
Self-Assessment Yes No
b) Go on the internet and find a bike tour in
the city.
I talk about things to do on
c) Fill in the table.
a trip.
d) Share your information with a partner.
I fill in the table.

I share my table with a

friend.

City Where does it What places do you go to? What things do

start? Finish? you do on the
tour?

Paris The Eiffel Tower -- Alexander III Bridge,Louvre Have lunch at a

Place De La Museum,Tuileries cafe.
Concorde Garden,Napoleon's Tomb

Target Words

• I'm melting (expression): use this to say you
are really hot in temperature
e.g. It's hot in Mexico! I'm melting!
• cooking class (noun): a class in which you
learn about preparing food to eat
e.g. I'm going to a cooking class today.
• bike tour (noun): an activity where you go
through different parts of a city on a bicycle
e.g. I'm taking a bike tour of Paris.
• Metro (noun): an underground railway
system
e.g. The tour starts at the Metro stop.
• site (noun): a place where something
is located
e.g. We go to famous sites in Paris on
our tour.

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Learning Points

The Present Continuous

You use the Present Continuous tense to ask and say what you are doing now.

You often use time markers like now, at the moment, today or this week with the Present
Continuous tense.

Questions can start with Hw/Wh-words. Remember you use Wh-questions to get
information about places, people and things. You ask Wh-questions often when you travel.

Questions Statements

How's it going? I'm melting at the moment.

What are you doing today? I am learning about Mexican food today.

Where are we going? We are going sightseeing now.

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