4C Listening:  Trip of a lifetime | Tiếng Anh 12 (Friends Global) | Unit 4: Holidays and tourism - Lớp 12 - Giáo Dục Việt Nam

Cruise past towering crystal icebergs. Watch a midnight sunset. Encounter pods of whales and colonies of seals and penguins. Tread where few have ever walked!

As the world's driest, coldest and windiest place, it is no wonder that it is our only uninhabited continent. Although it holds 90% of the Earth's frozen water, Antarctica is actually a desert, and conditions are harsh. But it is spectacularly beautiful. With cruise packages to suit all budgets - an eleven-day trip starts from £3,700 you'd be surprised how easy it can be to visit and how hard it will be to forget!

1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Look at the advert. Would you like to go there? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a holiday.

2 VOCABULARY Complete the travel collocations with the verbs below.

Travel collocations

do    get    go    have    help    light    put up    sleep   taste    travel

1 ............. a campfire         6 .............. omeone with their bags

2 .............. a local dish       7 ................ away from it all

3 .............. a lovely view     8 ................ light

4 .............. rough               9 ............... off the beaten track

5 ............. the tent            10 ............... some volunteer work

3

Read the Listening Strategy. Listen to four dialogues and identify a) who the speakers are and b) where they are.

4 Listen again. For each dialogue, answer the questions below. Say which clues helped you to answer.

1 What kind of relationship is it?

2 What is the approximate time or time of day of the dialogue?

3 What is the reason for the dialogue?

5  Listen to another conversation. Decide if the statements are true (T), false (F), or if the information is not given (NG).

1 The conversation is happening outside a coffee shop.

2 Annie and Simon usually go to the gym together.

3 Annie's first reaction to Simon's suggestion is disbelief.

4 Simon generally prefers to go somewhere remote on holiday.

5 Simon cannot persuade Annie that a holiday in the Antarctic is harmless for the environment.

6 Annie and Simon work for the same company.

7 Simon explains he's only joking about the holiday.