3 The tourist trade

Language Summary 3, Student 's Book p119

Your holiday, my job

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Phrasal verbs (1): travel ED

Read the conversat i on. Replace the phrases in bold with a phrasal verb from the box in the correct form.

Present Perfect Simple ED

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fill in the gaps in conversat ions 1-6 wi t h the verbs i n brackets . Use the Present Perfect Simpl e.

1 A Shi rley hasn't b !l.. ( not go) abroad.

B You 're joki ng ! 1 ot even to France?

2 A .... .................... you ever

tou rism?

.. ........... (work ) in

B Yes, I wa a wa i ter i n a hotel a l ong t i me ago.

3 A You

... . ...... . ......... never

..... (bring)

-k10IE fen•a1d to see (somebody} off get around put up with pick (somebody} up check into

set off get back

Are you looking forward to

MUM 1."-.re you excit ed ah out tomorrow?

CASS Of course. We're ²lcavin g very early, t hough.

MUM Iknow. Ist ill want to come to t he airpon to

³say goodbye to you.

CASS Of course . Than ks, Mu m.

MUM And give me a q u ick call when you⁴'ve arrived at the hotel.

CASS Sure. Are you goi ng to m iss me?

MUM A bit. 13ut al least Iwon't have to ⁵t olerate your loud music.

CASS And you won't have to give me lifts so Ican

⁶travcl about.

MUM :-\o. Th at's t rue . So what time do you

⁷ret urn ?

CASS At one o'clock in t he morning.

MUM Th at's late !

CASS I know. So I was wonderi n g ... can you

⁸m eet me in t he car?

mc back an yt hi ng from your holidays .

B Yes, I have! Igave you a pictu re of Ven ice once .

4 A \Vow! You two have got a good su n ta n.

^{B Yes . We} . ................ ju st

(get back) from t wo weeks in t he Caribbean.

s A Hi , ca n l speak to Pat or Ha rry Skilton please?

B Let's sec. I'm afraid t hey ................... . ..... (not check i nto ) t he hotel yet.

6 A The passengers arc angry abotll the late fligh t s.

^{B 1 know. I} al read y ................. . (deal) wi t h t hree com pla i n t s today.

"A rc sentences 1-9 correct? Change t he incorrect sentences.

've known

l hi m si nce l was you ng.

2. Wend y and Ca rl never saw ou r old house.

3. \Vc'vc ru n a bed a nd breakfast since t h ree rears.

4 I like your hou se . How l ong d id you live here? s Mar k isn't h ere . He's been to work .

6 \Vc'vc set off hours ago, bu t we're st uck in t rnffic.

7 We haven't had a holiday t his year.

8. Did you check i n to t he hotel yet?

9. No one has picked m e up at the ai rport.

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"Fill in t h e gaps with t h e Past Simpl e or Present Perfect Simple of t he verbs in brackc1s.

Jose Guerreiro

is a head chef in

a restaurant for 1,000 people. But it's not

a nonnal restaurant

It's open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and

it's always full.

Jose Guerreiro trained as a chef in Goa, India and ¹ $p.nt... (spend> seven years working in restaurants in Indian cities. Then he saw an advertisement which changed his life.

·-·-----·- (always love> travelling so this seemed perfect," said Jose. He was

But this is the first time I'_ -·--·----..·-- lbe>

Head Chef on a cruise. I ¹.......... ,,

(never feel> so nervous in my life!"

Jose shouldn't be nervous. In over 20 years as a

.

chef he guesses he a ----- ---·-·····-··--.......... (learn> cooking styles from over 20 countries. "I can't think of anything I⁹ ....... --·-······ .......................... (not cook>.

I ¹⁰.... ,,_,,...... ................. ._ ... ...... Ideal with> every kind of special diet you can think otr he laughed. 'We had one passenger who ¹¹ • •............._ .. ... .......... .

(not can> eat meat, fish, milk products or bread!" I saw Jose again at the end of the first week .

I asked him "What ¹² _ ···-·-- ••_ ............. we

··-··................... ··---------·- .... (eat> so far, Jose?"

offered the job and it ¹

• ......... ------------ _

"So far, you ¹³

.........................................._.. • (drink>

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(not takel him long to make his decision. Six months later he started work on a cruise ship. The Sea Princess .

15 years later, Jose is Head Chef on the same ship. "I •-·---·------· ........ ,, -·lwork> on four ships

since I ⁵ ............ ...-................ ......... (join> the company.

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Phrases with travel, get and go on

ml

I) a) Fill in ga ps 1-3 wi t h t hese

\'crbs.

get go on

b) Fill in gaps a)-1) with t hese words/p h rases.

....

5,000 litres of milk and 150 kg of coffee. We

^1• (roasu about 1,000

chickens and made over 300 birthday and anniversary cakes. And no one ¹⁵ -··-­

(complain> yet!"

a) .....toge.th.r

taxi to work on your own a journey a cruise out of a car

^{a trip} d)

c) e)

Present Perfect Continuous and Present Perfect Simple ED

3. Make sentences in the Present Perfect Contin uou s

with for or since.

1. Th ey st a rted going on cruises t hree years ago.

.l.IJ.gyY. .P.. g.a_gglog .QTJ..Q:.t!Jg.$.{Q.r.J.b.rng_ye rs.

2. Marta started giving guided tours when she was I 6.

3. Istarted look i ng forwa rd to my holiday six mont hs ago.

4. Cam bridge U niversi ty Press pu blished i ts fi rst book in 1584.

s We started goi ng ou t together when I was 18.

6 You moved in to this house two mon ths ago.

6. Choose the correct words. Sometimes bot h verb fom1s arc possible.

Philip Martin has n ever Yfi!3J!been having a permanen t home. He's ²travelled/been travelling rou nd the world since he left u niversity. "There are over I 90 cou n tries in the world a nd I've ³stayed/

been staying in about 85 of t hem ," he told m e. At t he moment he's in th e Gambia in Africa. U nfortu nately Philip hasn't ⁴fe/t/been feeling well for t h e last week. "I've ⁵tried!been trying a lot of different foods on my travels and I've never ⁶had/

been having any problems before. Bu t everyone ha s

⁷/ooked after/been looking after me very well! "

For the last ten yea rs Philip has ⁸kept/been keeping

a dia ry of his travels and so far he's ⁹pub/ished/ been publishing two books abou t his adven tures.

Since he started writing, Philip hasn't ¹⁰had/been having

to do other work. Ile's just ¹¹finished/been finishing his third book and he's now plan ning his journey to

Sou t h America. "I've ¹²explored!been exploring this

world for over 15 yea rs, bu t I've got a long way to go!"

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Write questions with these words. Use the Present Perfect Sim ple or Present Perfect Contin uous.

How l ong I Ja ne I wai t?

How to.ng ha.Ja.ne..be. n..w..Wog?.....

2. How man y cruises I you I go I on?

_Hqw.mwy .rnies bfJ.v.e_yqgp_g _ n..9.n?.....

2. How man y hotels I you I work I in?

2. How man y t imes I yo u I go I on a package holiday?

s How long I he I ta ke I work home?

6 How man y times I you I get I a taxi to work?

7 How long I you I st udy I English?

8 How long I Tony a nd Maureen I be I married?

Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use t he Present Perfect Continuous

if possible.

We:.V.dgn..w.J(/]/og_ (watch ) a lot of t ravel program mes recent!)

2 Why didn't you call me? How ............................. you

......................... ................. ................. (get a rou nd )

wi t h a broken leg?

3 \Ve .................................................... . .......................... (not go)

on a guided tou r of t he city before, so we'd l ike to go.

4 The su n .................................. . (sh i ne)

all weekend. It's wonderful!

5 I .... ................................................................ (go) on package

holidays for years and I've never had any problems.

6 Lindsay ....... .......... .. . .............................................. . .....

(not tak e) a ny ti me off t h is year. She works so ha rd .

7 ............................. you ..... ....................................... (kno\v )

each other for long?

⁸ ...................................... (not travel)

first class hefore and I'm qui te exci ted about i t.

9 Who is he? He ...............................................................................

(stand) ou tside fo r hou rs.

Call that a holiday?

Word formation (1): suffixes for adjectives and nouns

Com ple t e the 1able wi th t h e adject ives or nouns .

adjective noun

"Read the a rticle again and fill in gaps 1-9 with an adjective or noun from 1.

Climb every mountain _•••

1 adventu rou s adventure

NAME HHGHI('")

MlllST 8.850

K2 8,811

l<AHGCH(llJUllGA l,586

WI! llHGHl ..,

N<-

IWIASlU 1.183

· 8.125

lltO 1.516

GASHUIBRIJM I

8.091

8,063

2 dangerous

3. enormity

4. importance

5. sad

6. seriousness

MAMW 8.463

CHO OYU l.201

DtCAULAGHtl 1.117

lllOIDl'!AK 8,0'7

GASHlalWll l 8.0:15

SH1SM PANCMA 8,013

7 famous

8. modest

9. accidental

f} Read the article. Choose the hest answers .

There is a popular saying in Japa nese:"There arc two kinds of fool*. Those who never climb Mount Everest and those who do it twice."

So what is Alan Hinkes? An ¹a QY.flJl).[QJ!S.. fool perha ps?

This 51-year-old former geography teacher has clim bed all 14 of the world 's highest mounta i n s. More people have landed on the moon

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1 A lan is from ...

than have tried this extremely

d ........... .............. achievement.

1. epal. @1he UK. c) Japa n .

2. A lan H inkes h as cl i m bed ...

   1. Everest 14 t imes.

The world 's tallest mountai ns are all in Nepal and Pakistan.

They are over 8,000 metres high. At this height helicopters can not rescue peopl e and the phy ical demands are ³c............................... . When you finally reach the top of a mountain , there's no time to

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b) 14 mou n tain s in 1 epal and Paki st an.

celebrate - it's

i . ......... to remember that you have to get

c) 1he 14 t allest m ou n tai ns in 1hc world .

2. A lan climbs m ou nia i n s because . ..

   1. h e loves doi ng il.

b) h e doesn't li ke t eachi ng any more.

c) h e get s a l ot of mon ey for it.

4 A la n h u n h is back ...

1. in a sn owstorm .

b) beca use h e sn eezed .

c) whe n h e fell .

5. To pay for h is t rips, Ala n ...

   1. speaks about h is adven tu res.

b) m akes film s aboul climbi ng.

c) bot h a) a nd b).

5. In his cou n t ry, Ala n is ...

   1. very well- kn own.

b) a h ero t o some peo pl e.

c) a schoolteacher.

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down the mountai n again.

Alan's been climbing mou ntai ns since he was teenager. "I'm add icted to it," he says. However, there has been some

⁵s ............. ......... in his adventures. I n 1995 he was climbi ng K2 with his close friend Alison Hargrea ves. Near the top, they separated and Alan contin ued to clim b alone. Alison and six other people later d ied in a snowstorm .

One of Ala n's most ⁶s................................ in jurie s on a mou ntai n was rather un usual. He was eating a cha pati - a type of Indian bread - when the nou r got u p hi s nose and he sneezed *. He

in jured his back and had to be rescued by helicopter. Despite his amazing achievement, Hi nkes is not

⁷f ......... . His ⁸m ........... ........ mean s that people

remember hi m more for the chapati ⁹a......................... ...... than the mou ntains he's climbed. Each tri p costs him about £30,000 and he raises t he money by givi ng tal ks and selling videos of his clim bs. Now, ma ny people want hi m to recei ve a knighthood · from the Queen. Perhaps the 'fool' Alan Hinkes will soon be

Sir Ala n Hinkes ...

*f ool = st upid person

*sncc:::c = when •ou sneeze, air comes ou t of your nose an d mout h i n a W•"· 1ou ca 11·1 coni rol

*J111igl11/11;11d = an awa rd from 1he Queen of England for doing

somet hing special

ao A_tr_i_p_t_o_ln_d_ia )

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Review: prepositions with adjectives

Choose t he correct preposi tion. Sometimes more than one answer is possible.

I'm feeli ng very nervo u s @!Q!at the flight next week. I'm really scared with/of/at 11ying.

2. I'm fed u p by/with/on my h u sband's snori n g and h e gets ann oyed about/with/of m e when I wa ke him u p.

3. The ma nager didn't seem con cerned with/about/by

ou r worries and we \ve re so a ngry at/on/with h im

e

Fill in t h e ga ps in t he conversat ion s wi t h t he ph rases in t he boxes.

.are the besr 's the best 'd recommend sounds wonderful wo uldn't go really useful

1

AN N You've bee n to I ndia, Louise . Wh at

¹ arg_ th..b_g.t. places to visi t ?

2

LOUISE I

..•..... ·•··•·•·••·•••••••••••••·•·••••••••••• ••·•• Kerala - i n th e

t hat we ch ecked ou t ea rly.

4 Ni kk i was very upset of/by/about splitting u p wi t h

sou t h. Bea u tifu l lakes, canals ... it's l i ke pa radise.

3

Mar k , bm she t old m e she was fed u p of/at/with

AN N That

4

••.•••...•••.•...... • ••••••••••••••• •••••• • Wha t

hi m goi ng ou t every n igh t.

Asking for and making recommendations ED