Speaker 1 Kevin is very quick to think negative things about people. Even when he talks about his best friend, he always tells you about his faults. And if somebody hasn’t got any faults, he invents them

A

It takes all day.

B

Really? I thought you were going to say a couple of 

hours. Are you sure? How far away is this place?

A

It’s on the other side of the island. Don’t tell me 

you’re changing your mind now!

B

Let’s hope the bus is air-conditioned, that’s all 

I’m saying.

A

Of course it will be. Anyway, we’ll ask when we book 

it. There are still places. I’ve checked. And we’ll have 

to hurry up with breakfast. The coach leaves from the

car park in an hour.

B

OK. If you’re really sure you want to go.

A

Oh, come on. We’ve done nothing all week!

B

I thought that was the whole point of holidays – doing

nothing. Relaxing.

A

I think the point of them is to go somewhere different 

and to see lots of different things! Oh, go on, please 

come. There’s no point in going alone.

B 

I didn’t say I wasn’t coming! You go and book the 

tickets and I’ll have an ice cream to fortify myself for 

the long journey ahead!

A

Great.

1.23 Lesson 4G, Exercises 3 and 4

I think I’ll choose the trip on the gondola – mainly because 

I’ve never been on one before. I’m actually not very keen on 

boats, but the trip is short and I think the gondola looks slow 

and therefore safe! I think it would be a wonderful thing to 

see the city from the water. Judging by the photo, the 

gondola looks quite comfortable as well. The gondola tour is

also cheaper, though this wouldn’t be my primary reason for 

choosing it. 

I wouldn’t pick the boat trip for the simple reason that I don’t 

enjoy travelling by speedboat! I sometimes get seasick on a 

boat, which is a shame because I’m sure the tour would be 

wonderful. Obviously it would be an interesting way of 

sightseeing for other people. The other reason why I’m not 

choosing the boat trip is that I’m not a strong swimmer and 

so I sometimes don’t feel safe on a boat in open water. The 

boat in the picture looks quite small as well, so it might make

me a bit nervous. So, all in all, the gondola is the most 

relaxing option for me!

1.24 Exam Skills Trainer 2, Exercise 4

1

I’m not that fond of camping, to be honest, so when my 

parents told me we were going on a camping holiday with 

my aunt and uncle and my cousins, I wasn’t very pleased. I 

felt better when I was told that they’d booked cabins instead 

of tents and I actually quite enjoyed the first day. That is, 

until I was washing the dishes after dinner. As I bent over 

the sink, I suddenly realised there were hundreds of ants 

marching along the bottom of the cupboard where my head 

was – yuck! After that, we gave up using the kitchen and 

resorted to eating in the café on the campsite instead.

2

I used to do a lot of camping with the youth group I belonged

to, and I remember one particular holiday when, for some 

reason or other, I wasn’t getting on with the girls in my tent. 

Anyway, one night we’d all gone to bed and suddenly I felt 

something moving in my sleeping bag. I put my hand down 

inside and pulled out this enormous frog. Fortunately, that 

kind of thing doesn’t scare me, so I just got up and put it 

outside of the tent. I thought that one of the girls had 

probably put it there, but when I asked them in the morning, 

they denied it. 

3

I always go camping with my family to the Gower Peninsula 

in Wales in the summer – it’s a beautiful area, but the 

campsite we stay at is basic, to say the least. We take our 

own food and do all our own cooking, and at night we 

usually play cards together – it’s all pretty chilled. The only 

problem is that you can’t rely on the weather in Wales, and it

often rains. In fact, one year, it was so windy that our tent 

blew away while we were inside it trying to sleep. So that 

was the end of that. All we could do was throw everything 

into the car and drive home. 

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4

I’ve only been camping once, and I’m not planning on doing 

it again. We were in Madrid at the time, and it was so hot 

that we needed to get away. So we got hold of a tent and 

drove to a campsite in the mountains that a friend had 

recommended. We didn’t bother taking sleeping bags, 

because we didn’t think we would need them. How wrong 

we were! That night we froze! While the temperature during 

the day was around 30º, it went below 10º at night and we 

ended up sleeping in the car with the heating on. The next 

day, we booked ourselves into the nearest hotel for a 

few days.

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Unit 5

1.25 Lesson 5A, Exercise 3