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Jane Pel found the food in Tlinn gute hear. 3b, She though the Estonine were prety cold, ‘miserable people Listen again and check your answers.Try to note down the exact words that tell ou why each rentence is true or false. Real English: type » Jane Peel sid that che hype about the Baltes seems to be true. Hype Is adveresing and ether kinds of publicity that tries to get everybody aking about how good something is Somedimes chings don live up tothe hype and are a rea letdown. You can then tall people Dont believe the hype! The media sometimes hypes things up and makes them sound Discuss these questions with a partn 4. De you know anyone whos ever done any volunteer work! 2. Have you ever done any D--Y? Are you any good at it 3. You heard that living out inthe commuter bee 'sounds ie ny idea of hel. What's YOUR Ides of hel? innings with the endings. We did really venture We saw ‘We ust spent the whole ime azng around We hitched ‘We camped out “The people there party 2. by the pool inthe mountains fora few days. «out of eur hotel very much 4. allehe sighs. ‘ pepepe BREESE like theres no tomorrow. all ound the country. Now mateh these sentence beginnings with the ‘endings. 7. We went out and hit 8 Youre always jeting off 9. usualy try and stay 10. We spent zen days telding 1, Joh and Ben just spent the whole time hanging out 12. Ie was realy nice just being able to let B BBEBE round the pool wih all che ether Kids! ‘yale down fora change. {for the weekend to some foreign city or other. ‘off che beston track. ‘through the rainforest. ‘the town every night 16) Role play ‘Work with a partner: Role-play a conversation between two friends who have recently returned {rom thelr holidays. ‘Student A: You're an adventurous holidaymaker. ‘Student B: You're a dull and predictable hotidaymaker! Spend three minutes deciding where you went, ‘who you wene with and what you did each day. Decide which of the expressions In Activity 5 you want to use. Try to remember them. Begin the conversation like this: A: Hishow'e you! How was your holiday? B: Oh,not too bad thanks. Didnt do very much you know. Te Ck dhe Seah dil eraeeentel revree 3 Deserbing paces {| Using grammar: comparing places ‘Choose the correct form in each sentence. 4. Thelr economy is nowhere / nothing near as strong as ours at the moment. Infaton Is out of coneel lover there 22, The food here is miles / metres beter, can tall you! Everything there was relly stodgy and ies very limited t00, 3. The transport system there is «milion fold / times better than the rusty, worn-out mess we've got here! 4 (ke ie here, bu snot even similar / lose to beng tas romantic of charming 38 Pars Pris is ust sucha seductive dy. 5. | suppose Mar del Pati che Argentinian equal / ‘quialent of somewhere lke Bournemouth or “Torquay ~ a clase sxzde holiday resore 6. The standard of ving here s nowhere / nothing ke a good as les there. They've got tal figured out cover there, you know! 7. think there are definite comparisons / parallels between the two countries, We've both lost empires, wore both on a bie ofa downward spiral and wore both very proud, {8 Theres no comparing ! comparison! | much prefer it heres out in the middle of nowhere there and its totaly dead a night. 19, {ike my hometown, but its notin the same league competion asthe capital, 10. Bangkok is amazin! | found the rest ofthe country a be dll by / when comparison, to be honest. 18] Proctie See ee Hel cerpeerereertertin Sree rata Srnmretreoes eee enarcineceentas ast) Reading || Before you read ‘Towns or cities often sign an official agreement with a town oF city in another country to ‘establish a social or economic ‘connection. This is called town ‘ewinning. Do you know ifthe place you live is twinned with anywhere? Do you think twinning isa good Idea? ‘Why I sehy noe? Read the article and find out i the author thinks twinning i a good idea. Why I why not? 3| comprehension Discuss these questions with a partner 4. Why do you think people in Belper were ined bythe pk? Would i you have been? i 2. Why do you think Wincanton and Proston wanted to twin with the ‘owns mentioned? Why do you ‘hin they were stopped? Who do you agree with? 3. Which ofthe examples of bad publicity are che most serious? Why? 4. What kindof insights do you thnk students gin from exchanged? Do you agree with Tom Crk that they

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