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Ask students to discuss with a partner what the advantages
and disadvantages of each form of travel are.
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Encourage students to read out their sentences and then to
talk about their holiday experiences. Remind them to use the
past simple for specifi c events, for example:
I’ve been abroad
on holiday. I went to the USA in 2007.
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Before doing the exercise, write
South Africa
on the board.
Ask students in pairs to brainstorm everything they know
about South Africa. Collate ideas on the board in the form
of a mind map and, if they have not already been offered
to you, elicit names of cities, famous sights, languages and
currency. (N.B. There are 11 offi cial languages in South Africa,
English and Afrikaans being the most widely-known, but
there are many other unoffi cial languages; the currency is the
Rand
.)
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Terms and conditions
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Make sure that students read the
Learning tip
before they do
this exercise. Elicit or tell the class that the photo shows the road
which goes to Cape Point. Ask students if they have been there.
While checking the answers, elicit/explain that
CPT
stands for
Cape Town and
JHB
stands for Johannesburg, and tell students
that these are
abbreviations
(a key word in this unit).
Afterwards, check that students understand the meaning of
downtown
.
2
Before doing the exercise, explain that
ZA
stands for
Zuid-
Afrika
(Dutch). Elicit/Explain that the abbreviation
ZAR
stands
for
South African Rand
.
3
After doing the exercise, elicit/explain that the remarks are
abbreviations.
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