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Here are some situations that match the different ways of walking: 1. Limp along - Someone might limp along if they had a sprained ankle or foot injury. 2. Tiptoe into a room - Someone might tiptoe into a room if they didn't want to wake someone up or be heard approaching. 3. Stroll along - Someone might stroll along if they were taking a leisurely walk to enjoy the scenery. 4. March into somebody's office - Someone might march into an office if they were angry or wanted to convey a sense of authority. 5. Sneak up on somebody - Someone might sneak up on another person if they wanted to surprise or startle

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Unit7a - SolutionsAdvanced

Here are some situations that match the different ways of walking: 1. Limp along - Someone might limp along if they had a sprained ankle or foot injury. 2. Tiptoe into a room - Someone might tiptoe into a room if they didn't want to wake someone up or be heard approaching. 3. Stroll along - Someone might stroll along if they were taking a leisurely walk to enjoy the scenery. 4. March into somebody's office - Someone might march into an office if they were angry or wanted to convey a sense of authority. 5. Sneak up on somebody - Someone might sneak up on another person if they wanted to surprise or startle

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Discuss the difference in meaning between these words. Use your dictionary to help you.

1 a break A break is a short holiday, e.g. a weekend break, a city break.


An expedition is an organised journey with a particular purpose, to a place which is not
2 an expedition well known, e.g. an Antarctic expedition.
An excursion is a short journey for pleasure, organised for a group of people, e.g. an
3 an excursion
excursion to the seaside.
4 a journey A journey is the act of travelling from one place to another.

5 a tour A tour is a journey, made for pleasure, in which several different places are visited.
An outing is similar to an excursion, but lasts for no more than one day, e.g. an outing to a
6 an outing museum.

7 a pilgrimage A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, e.g. Mecca, Lourdes or Santiago de Compostela.
A trip is a journey to a place and back, for pleasure or for a particular purpose, e.g. a research
8 a trip trip, a school trip.

9 a voyage A voyage is a long journey especially by sea or in space.

10 travels Travels means time spent travelling, e.g. He met her on his travels. The film is based on his travels.
Listen. What are the four speakers describing?Match each speaker with a word from exercise 2.

Speaker 1 excursion

Speaker 2 expedition

Speaker 3 break

Speaker 4 pilgrimage
Listen again. What informal equivalents did the speakers use instead of these words?
Speaker 1 Speaker 3

1 complain whinge 7 dirty grubby

2 very crowded heaving 8 food grub

3 make sb pay too much rip sb off 9 spend shell out

Speaker 2 Speaker 4

4 nervous jittery 10 hotel or restaurant place

5 exhausted shattered 11 rain heavily bucket down

6 sleep snooze 12 sell flog


Match the informal words (1-8) with the definitions (a-h). Use your dictionary to help you.

sandwich hooligan friends relax toilet sausages broken children

1 bust broken

2 mates friends

3 loo toilet

4 kids children

5 bangers sausages

6 yob hooligan

7 chill out relax

8 sarnie sandwich
Complete the sentences with informal words from the previous exercise.

bust mates loo kids bangers yob chill out sarnie

1 You must be starving. You only had a ____________


sarnie for lunch.

bangers
2 We've got ____________ and mash for tea. Is that OK?

mates
3 I'm going out with my ____________ tonight, so I'll be late.

loo
4 Wait for me outside. I need the ____________ before we go.

kids
5 The ____________ are staying with their gran tonight.

chill out
6 Let's just stay in and ____________ tonight.

bust
7 My watch is ____________ . Have you got the time?
yob
8 Some ____________ scratched my car last night.
Match the verbs and particles to make phrasal verbs related
to travel. They are all from the listening.

1 stop off (at) a round

2 show sb round b up

3 touch down c off (at)

4 get away d away

5 hold up e down
Complete the sentences with informal words from the previous exercise.
stop off (at) show sb round touch down get away hold up
check into drop off pick up put up see off stop
by stop over
showed us round the palace had some fascinating stories about the
1 The guy who _______________
history of the place.

will pickyou _____in


2 This evening the taxi ______ up drop you ______
the town centre and _____ off at
the hotel.

3 My uncle's returning home to the States tomorrow.


see him _____.
I'm going to the airport to ______ off
was held up and I didn 't arrive until after midnight, so I checked
4 My plane ___________ into a
____________
hotel near the airport.
stop by
5 Do _ _ _____ if you're ever in London. We can easily _put
_ _ you _up
__.
stopped off in Greece on our way to Israel.
6 Last summer we ___________
Phrasal verbs with run and walk
run away run into sb run out of sth run sb down run sth by sb
walk all over sb walk in on sb walk off walk out on sb walk up to sb

1 to enter a room when sb is not expecting you walk in on sb

2 tell sb an idea to see their reaction run sth by sb


3 treat sb badly without considering their feelings walk all over sb

4 meet sb by chance run into sb

5 escape run away

6 leave a situation suddenly because you are upset walk off

7 suddenly leave sb you are having a relationship with walk out on sb

8 criticise sb in an unkind way run sb down

9 approach sb walk up to sb

10 finish a supply of sth run out of sth


run away run into sb run out of sth run sb down run sth by sb
walk all over sb walk in on sb walk off walk out on sb walk up to sb
running her ______
1 Nobody knows why Gina is still going out with George - he's always________ down _
walked off
2 I don't know what's wrong with Brett. I said I liked his new haircut and he just ___________
in a mood.
walked out on her and she doesn't know
3 Jenny's terribly upset. Her boyfriend's just ______________
where he's gone.
walked in on me when I was
4 I wanted my sister's present to be a surprise, but she______________
wrapping it up.
running out of petrol.
5 We'll have to stop at the next filling station because we're _____________
ran
6 He __________ by
the proposal ________ his assistant before he held the meeting.
ran away
7 The boy ____________ before I could ask him what he was doing in my garden.
8 She's done a really bad job of bringing up her son - he walks all over her.
____________
ran into
9 I __________ an old school friend when I was in the supermarket this morning.
walked up to the manager
10 David was so keen to make a good impression that he just __________
Complete the chart for different ways of walking. Use your dictionary to help you.
Creep limp march plod saunter sneak stagger stride stroll strut stumble tiptoe traipse trudge wander

quietly Creep sneak tiptoe

casually saunter stroll wander

purposefully march stride strut

With difficulty limp stagger stumble

Slowly and wearily plod traipse trudge


Work in pairs. Think of situations in which somebody might do these things.

1 limp along

2 tiptoe into a room

3 stroll along

4 march into somebody's office

5 sneak up on somebody

6 trudge back home

7 wander around

8 stumble

9 stagger

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