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Holiday memories
Holidays
Destination: Julian Alps,
Slovenia
Programmes: hiking,
whitewater rafting, rock
climbing
Accommodation: tents
Food & drink: what you bring
with you
Destination: Red Sea resorts,
Egypt
Programmes: diving, swimming
in the sea
Accommodation: hotel with
swimming pool
Food & drink: all-inclusive at
the hotel
Destination: Budapest, Hungary
Programmes: Sziget Festival, the
largest annual open-air rock event
in Europe on an island
Accommodation: campsite on
the island or budget hotels in
the city
Food & drink: a wide range of
snack and refreshment stalls
around the festival site
People
a group of young people who
work out together in their local
gym and love the outdoors
a professor of marine biology
who plays water polo in his free
time and wants to keep in shape
a group of students who have
been saving up all year to spend
the summer doing what they
love best: having fun
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Destination: Salzburg, Austria
Programmes: international
Mozart festival, concerts, opera
performances
Accommodation: 3* and 4*
hotels in the city
Food & drink: gourmet
restaurants around town
Destination: El Camino route to
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Programme: pilgrimage on foot
Accommodation: backpacker
hostels along the route
Food & drink: arranged by
traveller
Destination: Khor al-Adaid,
Qatar
Programmes: camel riding,
sand skiing, buggy driving
around the desert sand dunes
Accommodation: overnight
camp in the desert; mid-range
hotel in Doha, the Qatari capital
Food & drink: Arabian cuisine
an upper middle-class married
couple who like the finer things
in life, on their 15th wedding
anniversary
a newly graduated university
student, who wants to have one
last spiritual experience before
starting his career
a young man, who would like to
experience what it may be like
to be in an adventure movie in
an exotic location
✁
Destination: Isle of Fernando
Noronha, Brazil
Programme: tropical beach
Accommodation: individual
wooden bungalows in the palm
groves along the beach
Food & drink: tropical dishes,
fruits and drinks served to your
door
Destination: Masai Mara
wildlife reserve, Kenya
Programmes: safari, visit to
Masai settlements
Accommodation: ranging from
campsites to luxury hotels
Food & drink: local specialities
Destination: Orlando, Florida
Programmes: four Walt Disney
theme parks and two water
parks
Accommodation: Disney-
themed parks within the Resort
Food & drink: ranging from
American-style fast food to
fusion restaurants
✁
a young couple on their
romantic honeymoon paid for
by his wealthy parents
a group of European charity
workers working for third-world
countries, but who would like to
explore the fun side of these
a family with two children in
their early teens, celebrating a
special occasion with a kids-
oriented holiday
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Unit 9 Holiday memories
Teaching notes
Activity
Pair or groupwork: speaking; or individual work: writing

Aim
To describe places and activities on holiday; to practise multiple matching

Vocabulary
Describing an adventure

Preparation
Make one copy of all the cards on the sheet for every group of students.
(Be careful to cut along the dotted lines as indicated.)

Time
15–20 minutes (and another 10–15 minutes for the extension activity)

Lesson link
Unit 9, page 116

Procedure
• Photocopy and cut up Holiday cards.

• Put students in groups of three to five. Give each student in a group a different card. Ask them not to tell
their partners what holiday they have received.

• Refer students to the vocabulary in section A of the Wordlist on page 212 of the Coursebook.

• Brainstorm further adjectives and expressions to describe places and activities on holidays. If you do
this as a class, you can build up a list of useful lexis on the board for reference. Alternatively, you can get
students to brainstorm vocabulary in their groups.

• Students imagine they have just come back from the holiday on the card they were given, then use the
vocabulary from the Coursebook to tell their partners about their holiday – without telling them what
their destination was. They should include descriptions of their activities, the places they visited or spent
time in, who they went there with, how they felt and any other details that they can think of. Encourage
them to be imaginative and fill the story with personal details.

• Each student should talk about it for approximately one minute, and answer their partners’ questions.
Then the group should try and guess what the destination was, or what similar destinations they know.

• To wrap up, elicit some of the more entertaining or funny stories that students heard in their groups,
and invite comments from the rest of the class. Ask them if they would like to go on a holiday like the
one described and give reasons.

Alternative procedure
After the brainstorm, instead of describing their holidays orally, students should write a
personal letter or email to their friends in the group, then swap letters and either talk about
them in groups, or write replies.

Extension activity
To practise multiple matching, copy and cut up the People cards. Mix them up and hand
out all nine to each group of three to five students, and also hand out copies of all the
Holiday cards. They should discuss and decide which holiday suits which people, and
explain why. Elicit ideas with the whole class, and invite comments.