Experience the world Week 10 Experience the world

Experience the world Week 10

Experience the world Lesson overview: Speaking: Role Play Reading: The Fun and the Fear Listening: Making a reservation, expressing dissatisfaction Writing: A story

Experience the world Speaking: • Role play 1: Booking a hotel room over the phone • Role play 2: Complaining to a hotel manager about the room

Experience the world Reading: Think: Why do you think people are attracted to holidays involving extreme sports? Key words: apprehensive, haunted, exhilarated, tension, stunned, menace

Experience the world Listening: • Think: If you were going to visit a foreign country, what would you like to know beforehand about that country? Would a trip to Egypt appeal to you? • Key words and phrases: sightseeing, itinerary, package tour

Experience the world Writing a story: Useful story writing tips • Use past tenses. • After the first sentence, do try to use past perfect to describe history of the story. • Do try to use past continuous to describe weather. • Do try to use a great range of vocabulary. It helps to make a good descriptive story. • Don’t write about a topic if you don’t know some specific vocabulary related to it. • Do use direct speech. It makes the story more interesting. • Do add extra detail to add to the atmosphere of the story. • Do try to create some suspense. • Do try to have a dramatic ending. • Do use phrases to show when things happened in your story (while, before, after, during) • Double check singular and plurals. • A story should have: a good plot, with a dramatic, funny or unexpected ending; linking words and time markers to show the order of events; correct use of narrative tenses.