7 Get ready for English travelling
A: TOURIST AND VISITOR ATTRACTIONS
Develop your vocabulary: aquarium, botanical gardens, castle, cathedral, church, fountain, harbour,
market, monument, mosque, museum, national park, old town, opera house, palace, park, restaurant, ruins,
shopping district, square, statue, temple, theatre, theme park, tower, water park, wildlife park;
Activity 1: Where can you do these things? Complete the words.
1. see animals from places like Africa in natural, open spaces: ___________________________
2. see unusual fish: ____________________
3. buy fruit, vegetables: _____________________
4. find a wide variety of shops: ____________________________
5. see where kings and queens live or lived: _______________________
6. see ships and boats: _____________________________
7. see a play: ____________________________
8. see a lot of beautiful, old buildings: _______________________
9. see beautiful countryside: _____________________________
10. see interesting, valuable, old objects: _______________________
11. climb up high and get a good view: _______________________
12. got on rides: __________________________
Activity 2: Holiday activities – Complete the holiday activities with the words below:
the beach, beach volleyball, a bike, a bike ride, cards, an excursion,
kayaking, a castle, mountain biking, a theme park
visit a museum / 1 ________________ / a cathedral / 2_________________
go shopping / swimming / cycling / 3__________________ / abseiling / 4_________________
go for a walk / for 5________________ / on 6_______________ / on a boat trip
hire 7 ____________ / a kayak / a car / a boat
play table tennis / 8 __________________ / 9__________________ / board games
lie on 10_________________
eat out
buy souvenirs
sunbathe
7 Get ready for English travelling
B: TRANSPORT AND TRAVEL
Activity 3: Complete the text with these words.
arrivals cancel catch delay departures fare
luggage miss platform return single ticket office
When you go to the station to a___________________ a train, if you don’t already have a ticket, you go and
buy one at b_____________________ . You can buy a c__________________ (if you’re only going one
way) or a d______________________ (if you’re coming back). The e__________________ is more
expensive when you travel first-class because it’s more comfortable and you have more space. There isn’t an
extra cost for f___________________ - you can take at least two or three big bags.
When you have your ticket, you need to find the g__________________ where your train is leaving from. If
you arrive late, you may h __________________ your train. But sometimes there can be a i ______________
j
and your train doesn’t arrive on time. And sometimes there’s no train at all because they
________________ it! It’s important to keep looking at the information screens which show the
k
_________________ (the times that trains are coming into the station) and the l___________________ (the
times that trains are leaving).
