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Unit 4: Travellers' tales

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  1. 1Pop-ups
  2. 2Hidden talents
  3. 3Can't buy me love
  4. 4Travellers' tales
  5. 5The colleague from hell
  6. 6Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
  7. 7Career changes
  8. 8Art
  9. 9Project management
  10. 10The dog ate my homework!
  11. 11The diary of a double agent
  12. 12Fashion forward
  13. 13Flat pack skyscrapers
  14. 14Extreme sports
  15. 15Food fads
  16. 16Me, my selfie and I
  17. 17Endangered animals
  18. 18A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
  19. 19I'm really sorry...
  20. 20Telling stories
  21. 21Fakes and phrasals
  22. 22Looking to the future
  23. 23Becoming familiar with things
  24. 24From rags to riches
  25. 25Against the odds
  26. 26Our future on Mars?
  27. 27Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
  28. 28Dodgy dating
  29. 29Annoying advice
  30. 30I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks

Session 3

What could be more romantic than jettingoff on honeymoon to the Caribbean? In this session you'll read about a man whose honeymoon plans changed completely after he broke up with his fiancée. You'll also have the chance to check your understanding of some travel and relationship phrasal verbs.

ክፍለ-ስራሓት ናይዚ ምዕራፍ

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Activity 1

The man who got dumped just before his honeymoon

Jetting off to the Caribbean

Here is the beginning of a story about an unusual honeymoon. Read the text quickly and try to work out what the problem is:

  • John Whitbread has too many tickets for his honeymoon.
  • John Whitbread doesn't have a ticket for his honeymoon.

ነቲ ጽሑፍ ብምንባብ ነቲ ስራሕ ዕመምዎ

Imagine you are about to get married to the person you love and then set off for a romantic honeymoon. Now, imagine that your boyfriend or girlfriend dumped you just before you were planning to go away. What would you do? Well, this actually happened to John Whitbread from Leicestershire in the UK. He was left with an extra ticket to the Dominican Republic after he split up with his girlfriend six weeks before they were going to get married.

John Whitbread originally planned to get married on Valentine's Day but this changed when the couple ended their relationship over Christmas. Mr Whitbread had worked non-stop to pay for the cost of the trip, which came to just under £2,000. He went to the travel agent to see if he could get back any of the money that he had spent on the trip, but they only offered him a refund for half of the money.

So, John was left with a spare ticket for a trip to the Dominican Republic.

So, what's the problem?

Did you get it? John Whitbread has too many tickets to go to the Caribbean - he has an extra ticket because his girlfriend isn't coming.

To do

Time to check your vocabulary knowledge! Do you know the meaning of the words in bold in this story? Can you guess from the context in the story? Try the quiz!

Working out meaning from context

5 Questions

Can you work out the meaning of these words from the story? Look at the sentences they appear in and make your choice. See if you can get them all right!

ኣገናዕ፡ ፈተናኹም ዛዚምኩም
Excellent!Great job!ሕማቕ ዕድል!ዘመዝገብኩምዎ ነጥቢ ...:
x / y

Well done if you managed to get all the questions right!

Next

Read the next part of the story to find out what John did with his spare honeymoon ticket.

መራገፊ ማእከል

ትሕዝቶ ናይ ሓድሽ ትምህርቲ