New Language Leader 2 - page 16

16
IN THIS UNIT
GRAMMAR
• past simple
• present perfect and past
simple
VOCABULARY
• travel expressions
• phrasal verbs (1)
SCENARIO
• discussing advantages and
disadvantages, making
suggestions
• organising a study trip
STUDY SKILLS
• making notes while listening
WRITING SKILLS
• a biographical profile
Travel
2.1
TOURISM AND TRAVELLING
2
Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller 1608–1661 English historian
LISTENING AND VOCABULARY
TRAVEL EXPRESSIONS
1
a
Complete the questions with the words in the box.
destinations travel journey abroad trip
package home
1
What’s the furthest you have travelled from
home
?
2
Have you ever been
? Where did you go to?
3
Have you ever been on a business
? Where to?
4
Do you like
holidays where everything is
arranged for you? Why?/Why not?
5
What is the longest
you have been on?
6
What are the most popular
for people from
Bahrain?
7
Do you think that
broadens the mind?
Why?/Why not?
1
b
In pairs or small groups, ask each other the questions.
2
a
2.1
Listen to Nadia, a Swedish student who has
travelled a lot. Tick (
ü
) the questions in Exercise 1a
which she answers.
2
b
Listen again and make notes on her answers to the
questions in Exercise 1a. Are they similar to your answers?
3
a
Complete the reasons for travelling with the words
in the box. Look at Audio script 2.1 on pages 164–165
and check your answers.
broaden experience explore find get
meet learn (x2) see become (x2) do
study escape earn
People travel in order to …
1
get
away from it all.
2
new sights.
3
new places.
4
new people.
5
different cultures.
6
new skills.
7
voluntary work.
8
more self-confident.
9
a new language.
10
money
11
themselves.
12
more independent.
13
their horizons.
14
for qualifications abroad.
15
poverty.
3
b
Inferring attitude
Listen again. How do you think
Nadia feels about the different reasons for travel? Is she
positive (+), negative (–) or neutral (+/–) about each one?
1
get away from it all +/–
3
c
Work with a partner. How important are the different
reasons, do you think? Why? Can you add any others?
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