Transcript Unit 5 MY KIND OF HOLIDAY. Reading Content Before you read Discuss these questions: Describe the best hotel you have been to. • Where was it? • When did.

Unit 5
MY KIND OF
HOLIDAY.
Reading
Content
Before you read
Discuss these questions: Describe the
best hotel you have been to.
• Where was it?
• When did you go there and why?
• What was special about it?
Before you read
1. Look at the photos of the three hotels
and answer these questions.
 Which countries do you think they are in?
 What do you think people can do on holiday
there?
2. Write another question about each hotel.
Vocabulary
 an igloo // (noun)
an
Eskimo house, usually built of blocks of hard
snow.
igloos
Vocabulary
 a sail /seil/ (noun)
Vocabulary
 a helipad /'helipd/ (noun) : a small area
where helicopters can take off and land
Vocabulary
 a safari sfri/ (noun) : a trip to see or
hunt wild animals, especially in east or
southern Africa
A safari
While you read
 Read the article and the brochure on p43. Which
questions from exercise 2 can you answer? With
a partner, answer these questions:
1. What is Karen’s job?
2. Why does she take working holidays?
3. What is her idea of a perfect holiday?
4. Why does she spend her holidays at home?
5. Animals are mentioned. Which ones, and why?
Answers
1. She has her own travel agency. She helps people plan
holidays.
2. She needs to know where she’s sending people.
3. A little bit of everything: lazing on the beach, reading,
exploring new places, going around markets and food
stores.
4. Because she travels a lot, and she’s not home very
often.
5. Deer – sleeping bags in the Ice Hotel are made of
deer skins.
Camels – you can visit camel races in Dubai.
In tanzania, you can see elephants, rhinos, lions,
crocodiles, hippos, and rare birds.
After you read
1. Complete the chart about Karen’s trips to Canada
and Dubai
Canada
Which hotel is she
staying at?
How long is she
staying there?
What’s special about
the hotel and her
room?
What’s she going to
do there?
Dubai
Answers
Canada
Which hotel
…?
The Ice Hotel
How long … ? Four nights
Dubai
The Burj al-Arab
A few days
The hotel is made of
ice. The room has a
sleeping bag made of
deer skins.
It’s shaped like a giant
sail. Each room has
sea views.
Visit the art galleries
and ice cinema, and
What’s she…? have drinks in glasses
made of ice.
Eat in the hotel
restaurant, shop in the
markets, and visit the
camel races.
What’s
special … ?
2. Work with a partner. Look again at the
brochure for the Baobab Rivers Lodge.
Ask and answer questions about Karen’s
trip there.
Language work
 Find words or expressions in the text with similar meanings.
 My ideal holiday
1. doing nothing
2. stopping to look around in
3. I’m very interested in
4. move around without any hurry
 My business holidays
5. in an exciting and impressive way
6. Things that should not be missed
e.g: lazing