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. Comprehension questions and matching exercises are included about water sports, sights seen, and verbs paired with nouns.

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Holidays transport
festivals
Unit 3

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Foreign Language Center
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

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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

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White water rafting Snorkelling
Windsurfing Jet skiing

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Horse riding Fishing
Water skiing
Cliff diving

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Listen to the Tony talking to a friend.
What has each person done?
1
2
3
4
5
Tony
Lucy
Jane
Paul
Pat
D
C
B
G
A

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My room was
messy yesterday
I the
room
We use the present perfect
have+past participle
I have tidied the room.

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They lunch.
They lunch.

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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

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3. A recently completed action.
I have (just/already) sent all emails .
He is mowing the
lawn.
He has just mown.

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4. Personal experiences or changes.
She has lost kilos .

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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 .

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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.

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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.)

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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 .)

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