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You could make this competitive by asking students to work 
in pairs to fi nd the information quickly. The fastest pair wins.
5
Ask students if they would buy a one-way or a return ticket.
6
Explain that 
curios
is a rather old-fashioned word that means 
unusual objects.
Learning tip
Make the point that students should only use a dictionary to 
check their guesses. Explain that continually looking up words 
in a dictionary takes a lot of time and that using a dictionary 
disrupts reading the text itself.
7
Encourage students to read the leafl et again and to circle any 
words they don’t understand. Can they work out the meaning 
of these unknown words?
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Students can discuss these questions in pairs or small groups.
Extra practice
Ask students to fi nd out about any other places of interest in 
Cape Town or the surrounding area; the Cape of Good Hope is 
not far away, for example.
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More activities
1
Play a memory game. Students take turns to make a 
sentence each about Table Mountain Cableway.
2
Ask students to describe a tourist site they have visited, or 
to recommend somewhere for you to visit in their country.
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1
Remind students that we scan a text when we are looking for 
specifi c information.
Did you know …?
Elicit or explain that if both of the fi rst two numbers in a date are 
12 or below, then it is sometimes diffi cult to tell which is the day 
and which is the month.
2
Remind students that we often skim a text the fi rst time 
we look at it. Set a time limit, e.g. one minute, in order to 
encourage students to skim these texts.