Landmark Advanced Unit 10
A weekend break for people in their late teens
A short break for people in their early teens
A city break for twenty-somethings
A long weekend for a couple in their mid-forties
A dirty weekend/ A romantic getaway/ A honeymoon
A family with a toddler/ small children
A beach holiday/ A sun worshipper
A history buff
A nature lover
Just strolling/ wandering around
A shopaholic/ Retail therapy
A retired couple
A culture vulture
Understanding the culture of your country
Chilling out
Sightseeing
People watching
A party animal
A fitness freak
A thrill seeker/ An adrenaline junkie/ An adventure holiday
Suggestions
Town centre/ City centre (= Downtown)
Skyscraper district/ Business district
Museums and art galleries
Amusement parks/ Theme parks/ Fairground
Amusement arcades
Shopping centres (= shopping malls)/ High street/ Shopping areas
Religious buildings (churches, mosques, cathedrals, temples, synagogues, abbeys, monasteries, convents and shrines)
Water features (rivers, lakes, streams, fountains, etc)
Green spaces (parks, gardens, botanical gardens etc)
Squares
Zoos, safari parks, aviaries and aquariums
Markets (e.g. street markets, flea markets, or antiques markets)
Historical areas
Statues
Hills and mountains
Palaces, forts and castles
City walls
Ceremonial gates
Ceremonies (e.g. changing of the guards)
Stately home/ Mansion/ Manor house
Clock towers
Stations
Department stores
Casinos
Public transport (e.g. cable cars, tram, the underground, double decker buses, shared taxis)
Harbours
Piers
Parliament/ Senate
PM’s or President’s residence
Ferris wheel (= big wheel)
Town hall/ City hall
Theatres, opera houses or concert halls
Islands
Bridges (including pedestrian bridges)
Waterfront/ Riverside
Local history museum
Natural wonders/ Nature park/ Nature reserve
Discuss the last type of holiday as a class
Continue discussing adventure holidays with these discussion questions:
– What types of adventure holiday can you think of?
– What ages and types of people enjoy the kinds of holidays you have been talking about?
– Why do you think adventure holidays are becoming more popular?
– Why are beach holidays becoming less popular?
Listen to tapescript 10.1 and write the answers to those questions in the recording
Do the vocabulary and language focus exercises on page 75, then use the phrases below to describe one of the countries below until your partner guesses which one it is.
It’s like…, but not as… as.
I picture it as…
I’d imagine it’s like…
It looks like/ feels like…
It looks as if…
As it’s a very… country, …
If you work as…, you’ll like it.
It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen.
As you can… there, it’s suitable for…
If it’s anything like…, it must be…
The perfect age for a holiday here would be…
If your age is…, you’ll love/ hate/ quite like it.
Like…, there is a (famous)…
France Italy Belgium Austria
Australia Brazil Russia Netherlands
Turkey Indonesia Norway Switzerland
Greece Denmark Argentina Ireland
Iceland Thailand Portugal Czech Republic
Philippines Egypt Vietnam Croatia
Cuba Burma Malta Wales
The UK Georgia Germany Northern Ireland
Do the same with the cities below
Cologne Munich Bruges Brussels
Florence Geneva Venice Rome
Paris Athens Naples Turin
Milan The Hague Moscow Beijing
Prague Seville Kiev Warsaw
Belgrade
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Related pages
Recommending countries to visit Version 1 (with tricky names of countries and cities)
Recommending places to visit Advanced version (with useful vocabulary for describing different kinds of people, vocab for describing places, and tricky country and city names)
Countries and nationalities page
Giving advice activites to practise other language (TEFLtastic classics Part 27)
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