Activity 5. Traveling around the world!

Objective: Present continuous comprehension by talking about actions happening right now
Requirements: Study and practice:
1 Simple present 2 Present Continuous 3 Vocabulary: Weather and Seasons 4 Can & Can’t

Instructions:
1. First, use format activity in order to do the following:
Go to “Helen, a world traveler.” Look at each photo and try to identify the place. Then
read the different travel posts written by Helen and match them to the correct photos.

2. Read about “Helen´s typical Sunday”, find and correct the 12 grammar mistakes.

3. Moreover, imagine you are on vacation in your country or abroad. Write four different
posts describing what you are doing in these places.
Use present continuous and simple present to write the posts. Write from 30 to 35 words for
each post.
1. Give a detailed description of the place.
2. Include its location, weather and the season of the year.
3. Do you recommend this place? Yes or no and why.
4. Illustrate the posts with real photos.
Activity 5 “Helen, a world traveler”
Helen is traveling around the world. Every time she travels she writes different posts and
puts photos from different places and countries on a traveling website.

Read each of her posts and match them to the photos. What countries do you think she is
talking about?

Post Answer
A. I’m taking some photos of this Rome ancient site. Can you believe this? People fought
for their lives in here, I’m glad I was born in this century.

B. Right now I’m lying on the beach and looking how the big waves come and go. I’m also
watching how my friends play volleyball. Two more days left and I don’t want to go!

C. You won’t believe this, I’m on the fastest train in the world “the Shanghai Maglev”. It is
an unbelievable experience, this train can reach its top speed of 267.8 mph from 0 mph
in just 4 minutes. BUT my car is faster :P

D. I’m standing right in front of Eiffel Tower. Oh my! It is huge and amazing, please check
out my photos and write what you think.

E. My favorite team is winning the game and all the people are going crazy. I’m so happy
right now, if I come back to Spain, I will come back here!
 2 __E_ 3 __C_
1 __D___
Spain __ The shangai maglev__
Torre Eiffel

4 __A_ 5 __B
Rome __ Beach
__
Helen’s Typical Sunday Find and correct the 12 grammar mistakes
Today is Sunday and my friends and I are staying in
Peter’s house. My friend Peter washes his car on
weekdays, but he is not doing it right now. He is
videogames now. Meanwhile, my friend Gina is, a
magazine about fashion. She often cooks for us, but she
is not cooking now. Moreover, my boyfriend usually
watches football games on weekdays, but he isn´t football
games. He, videogames with Peter right now. And what
about me? I usually clean my house on weekdays, but Im
not my house now. Im a great day with them! How about
you? What you doing right now?
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Train Chepe.
1. Its original name
is Ferrocarril
Chihuahua Pacifico.
Travels from
Chihuahua to
Mochis Sinaloa
2 It is located in Chihuahua, Mexico it
goes through Barrancas del Cobre, which
they say its pretty nice. During Winter its
very cold and it snows a lot.

3 I recommend this train travel because

it is a very intresting way of knowing new
places and doing something different.

Be patient because it takes a long time to

get from one place to another.
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