This document provides vocabulary, grammar explanations, and exercises related to holidays, festivals, and transportation. It discusses present perfect versus past simple tenses. Topics covered include holiday activities like deep-sea fishing, cultural sites, ancient ruins, and handmade souvenirs. Reading and listening comprehension questions ask about a two-week tour to Mexico that includes water sports and accommodations. Grammar explanations focus on using present perfect for ongoing or recent actions versus past simple for completed past events.
2. LOGOHolidays transport festivals
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Reading: Advertisement, homepage about festivals
Listening: Matching people to activities,
multiple choice
Grammar: Present Perfect;
Present Perfect vs Past Simple
Vocabulary: Holiday activities,
entertainment, transport
Speaking: Discussing your holiday to Mexico
3. LOGOn-noun, phr – phrase, adj -adjective
Suits(n) – sets of rooms at a
hotel
Range (n) – variety/ selection
Deep-sea fishing (phr) – catching
fish from a boat out at sea
Cultural (adj) – involving or
concerning the arts
4. LOGOn-noun, phr – phrase, adj -adjective
Handmade (adj) – made using
hands or tools, but not machines
Ancient ruins (phr) – very old,
damaged building
Temple(n) – a building used for
religious worship
Cobbled (adj) – (surface) made
out of stones
5. LOGORead the text and circle the right answer.
1. The weather is good in Mexico.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
2. The tour lasts for almost two weeks.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
3. They offer a lot of different water sports.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
4. A room for two people costs 5,200.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
5. The price includes breakfast only.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
6. The tour leaves from Swansea.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
6. LOGO
Match the verbs to the nouns and make
sentences
1 relax
2 visit
3 play
4 stay
5 buy
6 take
7 try
8 swim
9 do
10 see
C. on the beach/ by the pool
E. museums/ galleries
F. tennis/golf
A. in a hotel/at a campsite
G. souvenirs
D. a tour
I. local dishes /B. water sports
J. in the sea/ pool
B. water sports
H. the sights
12. LOGO
2. An action which started in the past
and continuous up to the present
especially with stative verbs, such as
; be, have, like, know, etc,
We her for two years.have known
13. LOGO
3. A recently completed action.
I have (just/already) sent all emails .
He is mowing the
lawn.
He has just mown.
15. LOGO
The time adverbs we use with the present
perfect
1. Already - is used in statements and
questions (to suggest surprise )
I have already met her.
Have you done the shopping
already?
2. Yet - is used with the present perfect
in questions and negatives
Have you bought the tickets yet?
Bill hasn’t come yet .
16. LOGO
3. Other time expressions we use
with the present perfect are -
never, so far, today , this , week
/month how long ,lately ,
recently , still (in negatives ).
17. LOGOUnderline the correct item.
1. Why hasn’t she arrived just / yet?
2. Lisa has lived in the United States for
/ since she was three.
3. He has lived in Brussels for / since
2000.
4. Has she finished doing the washing
up just / yet?
5. They have known each other for /
since they were children.
18. LOGO
6. The pilot has just / yet landed the
helicopter.
7. He hasn’t been to the gym for / since
a whole month.
8. Come on the film has just / yet
started.
9. We have already / yet had lunch.
10. She hasn’t bought the theatre
tickets already / yet.
19. LOGOPresent Perfect vs Past Simple
We use present perfect for an
action which started in the past
and continuous to the present .
He has been in Lisbon for ten
years.( He went to Lisbon ten
years ago and he is still there.)
20. LOGO
We use the past simple for an
action which started and finished
an the past
She was in Lisbon for ten years.
(She went to Lisbon ten years
ago but she lift . She isn’t in
Lisbon any more .)
21. LOGO
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