Unit 07

Drag and drop the verbs in the correct blank to complete the phrases.

1.________ a car.
2.________ a seat.
3.________ from home.
4.________ a destination.
5.________ by train.
6.________ a friend at the station.
7.________ a friend's house.
8.________ a bus.

Read the conversation at a travel agency; then say if the statements are true (T) or false (F).

Travel Agent: Good morning. Can I help you?
Tommy: Good morning. Yes, please. Can I have some more information about InterRail tickets? I saw the advertisement in your shop window and…
Travel Agent: Yes, of course. Now the InterRail system is a fantastic way for young people to travel around Europe. It is convenient and great fun. You can meet lots of young people and get the most of your holiday. As we say in the advert: 'Experience everything Europe has to offer and collect lifelong memories along the way'. And I can assure you that it is all true. I still remember my experience as an InterRail traveller years ago when I was about your age.
Tommy: It sounds exciting. But how expensive is all this? It is expensive, isn't it?
Travel Agent: Well, there are different options. Prices start from €159. You can get the so-called Global pass and travel around 30 different countries in Europe, or, if you go for a shorter holiday and you want to explore one country in depth, you'd better choose the one-country pass. It depends also how many days you want your pass for.
Tommy: I don't know yet. Can I keep the brochure and come back to see you in a week?
Travel Agent: Sure. Ah, don't forget that along with your InterRail pass, you get a free travel pack that includes a map of the European rail network, and a pass cover to hold all your travel documents, protecting them during your journey.

Turn the sentences into the opposite form, from negative into affirmative and vice versa.

1. Tom and Ann were travelling together around Spain.
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2. They were having fun.
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3. The weather was bad and they weren't enjoying themselves.
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4. In Seville he was eating too much.
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5. You were getting completely wet.
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6. They weren't going far and they were going on foot.
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7. We weren't going with them.
________

Rearrange the items to form questions in the past.

1. were / doing / when / the storm / what /  you / broke?
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2. choose / option / did / for the train pass: /  you / global or one-country? / which
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3. at the travel agency? / went / who / to book / with you / the flight /
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4. book / for? / what / did / date / you / your seat /
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5. to pick up / did / who / go / at the station?/ they
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6. new phone cover, / does / colour / which / she / her / orange or green? / want
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7. first? / which / leaves / train
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Drag and drop the words in the correct blank to connect the place with the activity.

1. Swimming pool ________
2. Hotel reception ________
3. Double-decker bus ________
4. Train ________
5. Waikiki beach ________
6. Railway station ________  
7. Port ________   

Sandra is giving her impressions about a package tour to Zanzibar. She gives her opinion about the journey, the hotel reception, the food, her room and the hotel facilities. Listen to how she evaluates each item and choose poor, adequate, good or excellent according to the opinions she gives.

1. Journey ________
2. Hotel reception ________
3. Food ________
4. Room ________
5. Facilities ________

Choose the best option between past simple and past continuous.

Look, these are the pictures I ________ during my holiday in Portugal. Here I was ________ on a very slow train which took me from Lisbon to a tiny village on the coast. At the station, where I ________ my ticket, I ________ a serious problem. The man at the window ________ where I ________ to go. I ________ when luckily another passenger, who ________ in the queue behind me, offered to explain to the man at the window where I ________.

Complete with the missing adjective or adverb.

adjective: steady   -->  adverb: ________                                                                                              
adjective: ________   -->  adverb: happily                                                                       
adjective: unfortunate   -->  adverb: ________                                                                                         
adjective: ________   -->  adverb: well                                     
adjective: beautiful   -->  adverb: ________                                                                                              
adjective: hard   -->  adverb: ________                                                                                                      
adjective: ________   -->  adverb: quickly                                                                        

Choose the best option.

I am going to show you the pictures I ________ during my trip through Europe. ________ they are not all ________. Some of them are blurred or out of focus because I ________ some problems with my camera and I had to use my phone instead. Look, here I ________ the TGV. I was so excited but excitement ________ long because on board I felt ________. This is me arriving in Paris: I was as white as a ghost. Look, here I ________ on a beach in Sicily. The sun was ________ hot and I ________ very red. The pictures are OK after all, aren't they? A nice record of an ________ holiday.

Complete the paragraph using some of the words from the list below: there are two extra words you don't need.

tour – unbearably – campsite – means – a ferry – was flying – by bike – holiday – flight – guide – to travel – boat

We decided that we deserved a very special ________ that year as we were both turning eighteen and our parents agreed to let us go away on our own. The idea was to ________ Corsica. Giorgio is from Livorno, Italy, and we agreed to meet there. I ________ to Livorno on a cheap ________ from London. From Livorno we were getting ________ to Bastia and there our adventure started. At first, my friend Giorgio and I wanted ________ only ________ and decided not to use any other ________ of transport except our own bikes, but then we started to have big problems with the steep roads and the ________ hot sun. Our backpacks were starting to hurt our backs and our holiday was becoming a nightmare when Giorgio had a bright idea: choosing a nice ________ to put up our little tent and enjoy a relaxing week.