advice, recommendations and suggestions/ describing places/ travel and tourism
Landmark Advanced Unit 10
Choose a situation from this list, make a suggestion about what to do in or near here, listen to your partner’s reaction, discuss for longer if you like, then take turns doing the same. Your teacher will tell you if and how you can use the list on the next page to help.
- A weekend break for people in their late teens
- A short break for people in their early teens
- A city break for twenty-somethings
- A long weekend for a couple in their mid-forties
- A dirty weekend/ A romantic getaway/ A honeymoon
- A family with a toddler/ small children
- A beach holiday/ A sun worshipper
- A history buff
- A nature lover
- Just strolling/ wandering around
- A shopaholic/ Retail therapy
- A retired couple
- A culture vulture
- Understanding the culture of your country
- Chilling out
- Sightseeing
- People watching
- A party animal
- A fitness freak
- A thrill seeker/ An adrenaline junkie/ An adventure holiday
When your teacher stops you, share a recommendation you agreed on and see what the class thinks.
Ask about situations above and vocabulary below you aren’t sure about, discussing them as a class each time.
Optional: Take turns choose a recommendation from the next page and saying who you recommend it for, including specific recommendations when relevant.
Discuss the last situation on the list above as a class.
Continue discussing adventure holidays with these discussion questions:
- What types of adventure holiday can you think of?
- What ages and types of people enjoy the kinds of holidays you have been talking about?
- Why do you think adventure holidays are becoming more popular?
- Why are beach holidays becoming less popular?
Listen to tapescript 10.1 and write the answers to those questions in the recording
Suggestions
- Town centre/ City centre (= Downtown)
- Skyscraper district/ Business district
- Museums and art galleries
- Amusement parks/ Theme parks/ Fairground
- Amusement arcades
- Shopping centres (= shopping malls)/ High street/ Shopping areas
- Religious buildings (churches, mosques, cathedrals, temples, synagogues, abbeys, monasteries, convents and shrines)
- Water features (rivers, lakes, streams, fountains, etc)
- Green spaces (parks, gardens, botanical gardens etc)
- Squares
- Zoos, safari parks, aviaries and aquariums
- Markets (e.g. street markets, flea markets, or antiques markets)
- Historical areas
- Statues
- Hills and mountains
- Palaces, forts and castles
- City walls
- Ceremonial gates
- Ceremonies (e.g. changing of the guards)
- Stately home/ Mansion/ Manor house
- Clock towers
- Stations
- Department stores
- Casinos
- Public transport (e.g. cable cars, tram, the underground, double decker buses, shared taxis)
- Harbours
- Piers
- Parliament/ Senate
- PM’s or President’s residence
- Ferris wheel (= big wheel)
- Town hall/ City hall
- Theatres, opera houses or concert halls
- Islands
- Bridges (including pedestrian bridges)
- Waterfront/ Riverside
- Local history museum
- Natural wonders/ Nature park/ Nature reserve
Do the vocabulary and language focus exercises on page 75, then use the phrases below to describe one of the countries below until your partner guesses which one it is.
- It’s like…, but not as… as.
- I picture it as…
- I’d imagine it’s like…
- It looks like/ feels like…
- It looks as if…
- As it’s a very… country, …
- If you work as…, you’ll like it.
- It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen.
- As you can… there, it’s suitable for…
- If it’s anything like…, it must be…
- The perfect age for a holiday here would be…
- If you are around … years old, you’ll love/ hate/ quite like it.
- Like…, there is a (famous)…
France Italy Belgium Austria
Australia Brazil Russia Netherlands
Turkey Indonesia Norway Switzerland
Greece Denmark Argentina Ireland
Iceland Thailand Portugal Czech Republic
Philippines Egypt Vietnam Croatia
Cuba Burma Malta Wales
The UK Georgia Germany Northern Ireland
Do the same with the cities below
Cologne Munich Bruges Brussels
Florence Geneva Venice Rome
Paris Athens Naples Turin
Milan The Hague Moscow Beijing
Prague Seville Kiev Warsaw
Belgrade
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