Unit 8: Travel
Articles - a, an, the
Select a unit
- 1Nice to meet you!
- 2What to wear
- 3Like this, like that
- 4The daily grind
- 5Christmas every day
- 6Great achievers
- 7The Titanic
- 8Travel
- 9The big wedding
- 10Sunny's job hunt
- 11The bucket list
- 12Moving and migration
- 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14New Year, New Project
- 15From Handel to Hendrix
- 16What's the weather like?
- 17The Digital Revolution
- 18A detective story
- 19A place to live
- 20The Cult of Celebrity
- 21Welcome to your new job
- 22Beyond the planets
- 23Great expectations!
- 24Eco-tourism
- 25Moving house
- 26It must be love
- 27Job hunting success... and failure
- 28Speeding into the future
- 29Lost arts
- 30Tales of survival
Session 5
Listen to episode 8 of our drama, The Race. How do lobsters leave Phil sailing the yacht on his own? Then have a go at the Unit 8 Weekly Quiz. How many can you get right?
Wayitii marii qabxii 5
0 / 15
- 0 / 0Activity 1
- 0 / 0Activity 2
- 0 / 0Activity 3
- 0 / 15Activity 4
Activity 1
Drama
The Race: Episode 8 - Phil's audio diary
Phil and Passepartout are reunited with Sophia and the adventure continues towards Papua New Guinea. But there are further troubles ahead involving a credit card and a lobster! You can hear a summary of what happens here.
If you don't want to know what happens, listen to the whole of episode 8 first on the next page.
Sagalicha dhaggeeffadhu
Dear Diary,
We made it to Papua New Guinea. We had to buy some food and water for our journey but we didn't have any money. We had to sell some of our things to pay for our supplies.
We set sail across the Pacific Ocean. And I cooked a special lobster dinner but it made Passepartout and Sophia very sick. I had to sail the yacht by myself. I was trying to find somewhere to land but there was a storm and I nearly hit the rocks. I really want to go home!
Downloads
You can download the audio and transcript from our Unit 8 downloads page.
Next
Listen to the whole of episode 8 of The Race.
Caasluga kutaa kanaa
Articles: a reminder
Use the for specfic things, and when everybody knows which thing(s) we are talking about.
Use an instead of a when the next word begins with a vowel, or silent 'h', or 'u' when it isn't pronounced 'y' /j/.
We can't use a or an with plural nouns.
Use the in many expressions with ‘of’.
Use zero article to talk about things in general and the names of most cities.
Session Vocabulary
slap-up
large and very good mealtucking into
starting to eat food with great enthusiasmserving up
bringing food to a table and/or putting food onto plates for people to eatdessert
sweet food that people eat after a main mealfood poisoning
an illness affecting your stomach, caused by old or badly cooked food
