Listening, speaking and vocabulary: One journey, different travellers

VTypes of journey

1Choose the correct words. 

• 1You need to be very fit if you want to do that excursiontrek through the mountains of Nepal.

• 2I'd love to do a voyagean expedition across the Atlantic Ocean on a big ship.

• 3There are so many expeditionsexcursions to Antarctica these days – does it ever get crowded?

• 4My mum bought these Russian dolls for me on her business voyagetrip to Moscow.

• 5The longest non-stop flighttour is from New York to Singapore – nearly nineteen hours!

• 6It's worth taking a guided trektour around Pompeii because it's huge and you can learn so much from it.

• 7My language school had an expeditionexcursion every weekend to other cities in Britain.

2Complete the sentences with words in exercise 1. 

• 1Camilla Hempleman-Adams became the youngest person to complete an  to the North Pole when she was fifteen.

• 2I saw my favourite band when they did a  of Europe last year.

• 3Between 1450 and 1850, at least twelve million African slaves made the  across the Atlantic.

• 4Do you fancy a  to London at the weekend? I'd like to visit the Science Museum again.

• 5Some of the children lived miles away from the South African school I taught in, and it was quite a  on foot.

• 6An eleven-year-old boy went to Manchester airport and got on a  to Rome for fun – without a ticket or passport!

 Persuading and negotiating

3Study the lines from a dialogue. Then answer the questions. Play the recording, listen and check. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. You also need to use correct punctuation.

TimDad wants to know if we've agreed on which theme park we want to go to next weekend.

…

KellyAnd you said you loved Old Macdonald's Children's Farm, the first time we went …

…

TimWell, don't pretend you've seen those films. They're for over-eighteens only.

• 1What's the relationship between Tim and Kelly? 

• 2How old do you think they are? 

• 3What are they discussing? 

Persuading and negotiating

4Play the recording and listen to the dialogue. Read the sentences and decide who says each one, Tim, Kelly or no one. 

• 1That sounds brilliant! But I'm not so sure about Thorpe Park.

  TimKellyNo one

• 2OK, you've convinced me. I'll agree if you promise not to take any embarrassing photos of me screaming this time!

  TimKellyNo one

• 3OK, let's go for it!

  TimKellyNo one

• 4Let's say we want to go there. Come on, you won't be sorry.

  TimKellyNo one

• 5It's still definitely got the best rides. What do you think?

  TimKellyNo one

• 6And anyway, you've got nothing to lose – we can always go to Alton Towers another time because it only takes an hour in the car.

  TimKellyNo one

• 7I think we should try somewhere different. Why don't we go to Thorpe Park?

  TimKellyNo one

5Play the recording, listen and complete the dialogue with parts of phrases in exercise 4. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

• AI think ¹ try that new Japanese restaurant in town. They have really low tables and you sit on the floor!

  B² interesting, but I don't like Japanese food. Why ³ for an Indian?

  A⁴ sure about Indian food since I had that curry that was way too hot.

  BWell, try something different, then. You won't ⁵, I promise.

  AMmmm. I'm not convinced.

  BLook, if you come to the Indian restaurant, I'll pay, so you've got ⁶.

  AOK, you've ⁷. And I'll pay for ice creams in Gelato Mio's afterwards.

  BOK, let's ⁸ it!

6 CHALLENGE! You and a friend have won an adventure holiday, but want to go on different ones. Write a dialogue in which you persuade each other, negotiate and reach an agreement.

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