Monday, 25 January 2021

Listening: Travelling

 




1. Choose correct answer
A. If you embark on a new project, you… 
a. are stuck with it. 
b. start it. 
c. accept it. 

B. If you put your friends up for the weekend, you… 
a. let them sleep in your house. 
b. throw a party. 
c. hang out with them. 

C. If you pick English back up, you… 
a. start to become more fluent. 
b. start learning it after a break. 
c. stop learning it. 

D. If you stopped over in New York on your way to Seattle, you… 
a. passed by New York. 
b. slept somewhere near New York. 
c. had a short visit in New York. 

E. If you set off tomorrow afternoon, you… 
a. start a journey. 
b. finish a journey. 
c. make a stop in your journey. 

F. If you get away for a few days, you… 
a. have to hide from someone. 
b. go on a business trip. 
c. go somewhere to have a holiday and rest

2. Complete the questions below with the correct forms of some of the phrasal verbs from the previous exercise. 
a) What do you check before ……………………….. on holiday? 
b) How often do you ……………………….. for a weekend? Does it help you rest? 
c) When you go on a city break, do you ever ask friends to ………………………..? 
d) Have your ever ……………………….. on your way to some distant places? Where? Why?

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain 

3. Match words from box A and box B to create pairs of synonyms
A: track     fleeting     immersive     abundance     face
B: plenty     confront     short     engaging     path

4.  Match halves to create phrases. 

1) off the beaten 
2) a fleeting 
3) an immersive 
4) to leave 
5) to provide food in 
6) to face 

a) abundance 
b) life/moment 
c) challenges 
d) experience 
e) track/path 
f) the comforts of your home 

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