Travelling

Week 2^nd – 4^th

Last week we finished listening to the song “White Flag”.

The answer to the question, “Who usually goes down with his ship?” is …the captain. Of course!!

Usually doesn’t mean always. Take as an example the captain of the “Costa Concordia,” which crashed into a rock in Italy two years ago…

“When does somebody hold up a white flag?” When there’s a war or battle and one of the two sides surrenders (=gives up).

We read about horoscopes.

 Most of us don’t believe in those predictions but, nevertheless, we keep on reading the horoscope. By the way, there’s a majority of Gemini in our group!!

We talked about types of holiday and holiday activities.

We played “The holiday game”

We had to pick up (select) a card from three different stacks (piles of cards). In one of them there were numbers, in another one, letters and in the 3^rd one, types of holidays,  e.g. safari, cruise, backpacking, sightseeing etc.

Looking up the letter + the number on a photocopy with a series of objects, we had to make a sentence like this: “We’re going on a safari holiday and we’re taking a typewriter because…if we are attacked by a lion, we can throw it the typewriter and run away (escape).

And to finish talking about holidays, we listen a dialogue at a souvenirs shop.

Do you remember the meaning of these verbs :

  Break up /split up         She wrote the song after splitting up / breaking up with her boyfriend.

Go down                        The Titanic went down after crashing into an iceberg.

Break down                   My car broke down and I had to call the tow away car.

Listen to a vacation postcard