10.
3 ON YOUR LEFT …
FUNCTION | giving a tour
A B
SPEAKING
1 Work in pairs and discuss the
questions.
1 When was the last tour you took? How
was it?
2 Look at the photos and answer the
questions.
a) Which photos are of Greenwich Village
in New York, USA and which are of
Oxford in the UK?
b) What do you know about each place?
c) Which place would you most like to
visit? Why?
FUNCTION giving a tour
2A 10.4 Listen to two people showing
friends around Greenwich Village and
Oxford. Number the photos in the order
you hear them.
B Listen again and write one fact you hear
about each place.
1 The Blue Note Jazz Club
2 The Café Reggio
3 Greenwich Village in general
4 Washington Square Park
5 The Bodleian Library
6 The Oxford colleges
7 The Bridge of Sighs
8 New College
9 The ‘Schools’
10 Christ Church College
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C
3A Work in pairs and complete the phrases. Sometimes there is more
than one possible answer.
Leading the way
Let’s 1_____ over to Washington Square Park and then 2_____ back.
Why don’t we 3_____ our steps and go back to the Café Reggio?
Giving facts
It was 4_____ on the Arc de Triomphe.
It was built to 5_____ the hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of
George Washington as president.
In front of us is the Bodleian, 6_____ after the 7_____ – Thomas Bodley.
Commenting on facts
8_____ I’m sure you _____, Greenwich Village has always been a centre of
artistic life – very bohemian.
9_____, the oldest college was actually only founded a hundred or so years
earlier!
10_____, the biggest room can seat somewhere in the region of 500
students although I haven’t seen it myself.
We can actually go inside if we’re quick. It’s well 11_____ a visit.
B Compare your answers with the audio script on page 174.
C 10.5 Listen to the intonation in the phrases. Then listen again and
repeat.
Interestingly, the statue disappeared at the time of his death.
The story goes, he threw it in the lake.
Apparently, it was made of gold.
Surprisingly, no one has ever tried to find it.
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LEARN TO express estimates

6A Look at the extracts and underline five phrases
for expressing estimates (when we don’t know the
exact number).
1 A: How many colleges are there?
E B: Just under forty. Well, thirty-eight to be exact.
2 A: How ‘new’ is new?
B: Roughly 1370.
A: You’re kidding!
B: No, really! Interestingly, the oldest college was
actually only founded a hundred or so years earlier!
3 Apparently the biggest room can seat somewhere in
the region of five hundred students
4 A: How many students are there at the university in
total?
B: To be honest, it depends. In term time, you’d
F probably get upwards of twenty thousand.

B Which phrases in Exercise 6A could be replaced by

D 1) fewer than, 2) more than or 3) about/around/
approximately?
4A Complete A’s part in the extracts from a tour of Paris. C 10.6 Listen and tick the exact number.
A: 1Let’s / head / over / the cathedral, Notre Dame.
1 a) 1,400 b) 1,518
B: On the island? Do we have time to go inside?
2 a) 30 b) 38
A: 2It / well worth / visit / but we / not have / time / to look
3 a) 1,180 b) 1,220
inside today.
4 a) 712 b) 746
B: … So that’s the Arc de Triomphe?
5 a) 2.13 b) 1.10
A: 3Yes, / model / a famous Roman arch.
6 a) 318 b) 371
B: And why was it built?
A: 4celebrate / one / Napoleon’s great victories. D Work in pairs and take turns to estimate:
A: 5… So here we are / the Eiffel Tower / named / its • the number of students in your school/employees in
designer, Gustave Eiffel. your workplace.
B: Wow! It’s impressive. • the age of the building you’re in.
A: 6Yeah / apparently / can sway six to seven centimetres in • the population of your town/city.
the wind! • the distance from your home to where you are now.
B Work in pairs and take turns. Practise the conversations • the cost of dinner in a good restaurant in your
using the prompts above. town/city.
• the number of contacts on your mobile phone.
• the number of English words you know.
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5 Complete the tourist’s questions with the noun or verb SPEAKING
form of the adjectives in brackets.
1 What is the __________ of the tower? (high) 7A Work in pairs. Design a one-hour walking or
2 Does this road go the __________ of the town? (long) cycling tour of your town/city for a visiting friend.
3 When did they __________ the entrance? (wide) Make notes on:
• four or five places to see.
4 What is the __________ of the wall here? (thick)
• a fact or personal opinion about each place.
5 The road __________ here. Why’s that? (narrow)
• some approximate numbers associated with the place
6 What’s the __________ of the river and ___________ of
(how many people visit it; how much it costs; how
the water here? (broad, deep)
old/long/high etc. it is).
7 Why don’t they __________ the map? It’s so small. (large)
8 It’s nine o’clock and it’s still light. When do the days B Work with a new partner and take turns. Role-
__________ here? (short) play the tour. Student A: lead the way. Student B: ask
questions.

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