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A ROLLING STONE...gathers no moss

Thank you, Eva, for this wonderful suggestion. Common idioms & expressions used in tourism (learn with flashcards). The Travel Bug tv show (Aus.E.) Travels with my father (Br.E.) BBC English Masterclass: Inversion 1: After Negative or Limiting Adverbs

THE PRINCIPLE OF KAITIAKITANGA

Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation (The story) New Zealand Travel Website Sounds of NZ English Learn to speak NZ in 45" The media in NZ: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand  (videos) Top ten NZ books of the decade Hauntingly beautiful scenery: The Piano (1993) The story of a mute woman's rebellion in the recently colonized New Zealand wilderness of Victorian times  where people live rudely in the rain and mud, struggling to maintain the appearance of the European society they've left behind. Truly remarkable! Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016):  Taika Waititi’s follow-up to the (also great) What We Do in the Shadows , is a pure delight and the perfect antidote after a bad day or a steady diet of too many sad movies. “Bad egg” Ricky Baker has been bounced out of more foster care situations than he cares to remember until he’s given his last chance with a couple living on a rural New Ze...

THE VIEW IS STUNNING

“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses” – Bill Bryson 3D Key 1.  A. True: 1, 3, 6; False: 4, 5; Not enough info: 2  B. 2 by boat. 3 cruise. 4 traffic jams. 5 buildings. 6 negociate  2.  A. 2 freshly baked. 3 stunning views. 4 mouth-watering. 5 heart-stopping. 6 value-for-money. 7 breathtaking. 8 highly recommended  My favourite guides: Rough Guides The Travel Bug: A television travel programme I also enjoy:  Richard Quest, business traveller ...

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

WEBQUESTS: 1.     Discovering English culture 2.     London webquest 3.     "Who is tired of London is tired of life" (Samuel Johnson) LANGUAGE:       1.     Survival English for travellers 2.     Survival English       3.     Welcome to London            4.     Travel English (amazing website)      5.    Slow London  (radio programme) LISTENING EXERCISE: There are nine million people in a city full of historical landmarks, _________________ can be viewed from a cruise on the River Thames. Westminster Abbey has been used for all the coronations since the year _____. The Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, the Egyptian Obelisk and Buckingham Palace continue to be on any tourist itinerary. There is a fascina...

WORLD AT LARGE

VOCABULARY Exercise 1 (look for "environment" and "holiday") At an airport: exercise 1 , exercise 2 READING (plus some videos) CNN News: How will airlines deal with ash backlog? This makes me wonder: TRAIN vs. PLANE ENJOY TRAVELLING? CNN Traveller Richard Quest's blog WHO'S RICHARD QUEST? Business Traveller: Japan on a Budget Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

OUT AND ABOUT

Guess what? I've found a wonderful website in which there is a section called 'Welcome to London'. Here you can follow two characters through a series of situations as they arrive and settle down in the city. What is really good about this is that you can listen to the typical conversations taking place when you are visiting a city (transport, hotel, shopping, eating out, etc). So, welcome!! Welcome to London Useful, isn't it? Well, here you have some links if you feel like practising count and uncount nouns again. See you! Exercise 1 Exercise 2