Assignment 2 – Travel and Tourism

1. Explain what are the students able to do in Travel and Tourism?

 There are lots of enjoyable activities students can do while they are traveling, they can try the
local food of the city, country or place they are visiting. They can walk around the place they
are visiting. And they can go to iconic places or popular places there.
2. What do you go on your holiday usually?
 When you go on a holiday, do you usually …
 in your own country or
 Stay  Go abroad?
 Stay in a resort with other tourist or  In a place near local people?
 Eat food you normally eat or  Eat the local food?
 Speak your own language or  Try to speak the country’s language?
3. Write the past simple form of the verbs below:

1) Ask Asked 8) Learn Learned

2) Buy Bought 9) Hurry Hurried
3) Dance Danced 10) Meet Met
4) Enjoy Enjoyed 11) Offer Offered
5) Find Found 12) Relax Relaxed
6) Forget Forgot 13) Prefer Preferred
7) Know Knew 14) Wear Wore

4. Complete each sentence with positive or negative form of the verb at the beginning of the line
conversation between Elliot and Victoria

ELLIOT VICTORIA
My fantastic holiday My terrible holiday
Be 1) My plane wasn’t late. 1) My plane was late
2) My bags wasn’t arrived at the airport
Arrive 2) My bags arrived at the airport.
3) The people at the hotel weren’t very nice
Be 3) The people at the hotel were very nice. 4) I didn’t eat the local food. It was awful.
5) It rained every day.
Eat 4) I ate the local food. It was great! 6) I spent a lot of money. It was so expensive!
Rain 5) It didn’t rain. 7) I didn’t speak to anybody.
8) I didn’t have a good time.
Spend 6) I didn’t spend a lot of money. It was so cheap!
Speak 7) I spoke to a lot of people.
Have 8) I had a good time
5. Write Elliot’s question to Victoria in the past simple about her holiday.

1) E : Why was your plane late? 5) E : What was the weather like?

V : I think there was a problem with engine. V : It rained every day.

2) E : When did your bags arrived? 6) E : What kind of food did you eat?

V : On the last day of my holiday. V : Nothing special.

3) E : What did you wear? 7) E : Did you have a good time?

V : I bought some new clothes. V : No!

4) E : Were the people friendly?

V : No, they were rude.

6. Choose the best form for each other verb. There is one past simple verb and one past continuous verb
in each sentence.

1) The internet stopped when I was watching a 5) We felt tired when we were getting home.
film. 6) I didn’t visit Cancun when I was working in
2) She walked down the street when she was Mexico.
seeing her friend. 7) I wasn’t looking when I crashed my bicycle
3) He left his job whe he was studying for his into a tree.
exams.
4) I did some cleaning when I was hearing the
news on the radio.

7. Use the past continuous and the past simple of the verbs in the brackets to complete the sentences
about each picture.

1) When I was walking down the street, I 3) When you called me, I was cooking dinner.
found ten pounds. 4) They were working quietly when the teacher came
2) It was raining when she left the house. back.

8. Match the words 1-5 with definitions A-E. Compare your answers with your partner. Check in
dictionary.
a. Visiting places of interest while on holiday.
1) [d] Fight b. An exchange, when someone gives something
2) [e] Unpack and gets another thing.
3) [b] Swap c. A place where people ona holiday can put a tent.
4) [a] Sightseeing d. A journey by aeroplane.
5) [c] Campsite e. To take things out of a suitcase or bag.
9. Read the following discussion reading about holiday suggestions between Nadia, Juan, and Keira and
answer the questions.
BETTER READING: PREDICTION
1) What will the discussion forum be about?
 The discussion forum will be about holiday suggestions, particularly the idea of home swap
holidays and the experiences of individuals who have tried them.
2) How many suggestions can you think for Nadia?
 There are 2 suggestions that I thought for Nadia:
- Home swap holidays, as recommended by Juan and Keira.
- Trying a different way of experiencing holidays by living in someone else's home and
immersing in the local culture.
a. Read the rest of the discussion forum and answer the question.
i. Were your predictions correct?
ii. Did you have the same idea as Juan?
iii. Would you like to go on a holiday like this? Why / Why not?
b. Read the discussion forum again. Answer the question.
i. Why should you trust the people who stay in your home?
 We should trust them because, in a home swap, they are offering you their
home in return, demonstrating mutual trust.
ii. Why was Keira tired, stressed and nervous the first time?
 Keira was tired and stressed because their car broke down on the motorway
that morning, and she was nervous about the uncertainty of the home they
were swapping to.
iii. What were the two problems Keira had before the woman answered the door?
 The two problems were that their car broke down on the motorway, leading
to stress and tiredness. Additionally, her little boy lost his favorite toy,
causing distress.
iv. What was positive about Keira’s experience in Madrid?
 Despite the water damage issue, Keira's experience in Madrid turned positive
because a neighbor helped resolve the problem, invited them for dinner, and
they became friends.
10. Write your holiday travel blog by using of home swap stays with your friend or a foreigner/strangers
that you have known. See template above.
 Holiday Suggestions
Zetta : My family and I want to go on a really fun holiday for five days. But it also needs to be very
cheap! Any ideas, anyone?
Zacky : Hi Zetta! We do a lot of home swap holidays. They're fantastic! You live in someone else's home
during your holiday, and they stay in yours. You only pay for your flights so you can travel to lots of
places. Actually, a man called Dean Prince and his family have travelled non-stop around the world for
over three years, using home swap stays!
Zetta : That sounds amazing! But what's it like having strangers in your home?
Zacky : It was strange the first time, but now we find it normal. You should trust your visitors! Your
visitors offer you their home in return, so they are trusting you, too.
Gia : I agree with Zacky. My family and I have had six great holidays in other people's homes. We stayed
in Europe and Asia. We had one bad experience, but the rest were great. I remember the first time we did
it. My family and I were standing outside the front door of an apartment in Paris. That morning, our car
broke down on the motorway, so we were tired and stressed. We were nervous, too-we saw lots of photos
of the apartment before we left, but sometimes photos lie. Then my little boy lost his favourite toy, and he
started screaming. I went back to the car to look for it, and unpacked all our bags. So my little boy was
crying, and all our things were all over the pavement and suddenly a woman answered the door. She
looked really nervous too! And then we all started laughing. It was a nice way to start!
Zetta : That sounds like a stressful start to your holiday, Gia! I hope the rest of it was fun. What was the
bad experience?
Gia : Oh, it was last 6 months. It was a bit of a nightmare! We were staying in a family's home in
Barcelona, and we woke up one morning, and there was water everywhere! It was coming through the
ceiling. I tried to sort the problem out, but I couldn't. And my husband called the host family. He doesn't
speak Spanish and they only speak a little English, so they didn't understand. He kept shouting: There is
lots of water here! I was really worried. We didn't have a phone number for a plumber in Spain either.
Eventually, a neighbour came round. He found the source of the problem and stopped the water. He
called a plumber and also called the family and explained everything. He helped us clean everything up. It
was fine after that. He invited us round for dinner with his family, and we spent a lot of the holiday with
them. We're still friends today, so there was an upside!
Zetta : Oh, that sounds terrible! But do you still recommend home swap holidays?
Gia : Oh, yes, definitely! Usually on holiday, you stay in a hostel, campsite or hotel and you go
sightseeing with your guidebook. You spend most of the time with other tourists, and you speak your own
language. But when you live in someone else's home, you live in their culture. You go to their
supermarkets. You go to the same restaurants. Your neighbours are local people, not other tourists. You
see how people really live in that country. I strongly recommend it.
Zetta : OK, Gia. Thanks! I think we'll try it.
Zacky And Zetta, don't forget - it's free!