1. Experience the world Week 10

2. Experience the world Lesson overview: Speaking: Role Play
Reading: The Fun and the Fear
Listening: Making a reservation, expressing dissatisfaction
Writing: A story

3. Experience the world Speaking:
Role play 1: Booking a hotel room over the phone
Role play 2: Complaining to a hotel manager about the room

4. Experience the world Reading: Think:
Why do you think people are attracted to holidays involving extreme sports?
Key words:
apprehensive, haunted, exhilarated, tension, stunned, menace

5. Experience the world Listening:
Think: If you were going to visit a foreign country, what would you like to know beforehand about that country? Would a trip to Egypt appeal to you?
Key words and phrases: sightseeing, itinerary, package tour

6. Experience the world Writing a story: Useful story writing tips
Use past tenses.
After the first sentence, do try to use past perfect to describe history of the story.
Do try to use past continuous to describe weather.
Do try to use a great range of vocabulary. It helps to make a good descriptive story.
Don’t write about a topic if you don’t know some specific vocabulary related to it.
Do use direct speech. It makes the story more interesting.
Do add extra detail to add to the atmosphere of the story.
Do try to create some suspense.
Do try to have a dramatic ending.
Do use phrases to show when things happened in your story (while, before, after, during)
Double check singular and plurals.
A story should have: a good plot, with a dramatic, funny or unexpected ending; linking words and time markers to show the order of events; correct use of narrative tenses.