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Review and Memory Booster.

This document provides a grammar review and memory booster exercise on the topic of travel. It includes: 1) A passage to complete using correct verb tenses about Thomas Cook, who started the first travel agency and made travel more accessible. 2) Questions about how travel has changed since Thomas Cook and why his agency was successful. 3) A task to write true/false sentences about yourself using sample travel-related verbs. 4) A pair activity to ask/answer questions about holiday experiences in different locations.

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Review and Memory Booster.

This document provides a grammar review and memory booster exercise on the topic of travel. It includes: 1) A passage to complete using correct verb tenses about Thomas Cook, who started the first travel agency and made travel more accessible. 2) Questions about how travel has changed since Thomas Cook and why his agency was successful. 3) A task to write true/false sentences about yourself using sample travel-related verbs. 4) A pair activity to ask/answer questions about holiday experiences in different locations.

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UNIT 8 REVIEW AND MEMORY BOOSTER

Grammar

1 Complete the article about Thomas Cook with the correct verb tense or form. Use the
following: past simple, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, ing form or
infinitive with to.

Before 1872, people(not/ travel) for pleasure very much. Then a man called (change)
everything (form) a travel agency, Thomas Cook when he Thomas Cook & Son. Cook
aimed (provide) educational and cultural tours. His son was successful in the business
around the world. At first, foreign (pundxa) travel was expensive, but incomes " (rise) since
those days. Nowadays, many millions of ordinary people expect on holiday at least once a
year. In the twentieth century, holiday makers preferred (book) trips with travel agencies.
For the last few years, travel agencies because most people own plans online. Thomas
Cook, however, is still one of the biggest travel companies in the world.

2 Answer the questions about the article in Exercise 1.

1 How has travel changed since the time of Thomas Cook?

2 Why do you think the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son was successful?

3 Write four true or false sentences about yourself with these verbs. Work in pairs and say
it your partner's sentences are true or false.

have been learning have seen


am interested in trying want to go

4 Work in pairs. Have you ever been to places like these on holiday? Ask and answer
questions about your experiences.

a beach resort a safari


a cultural centre a theme park
a natural park a z00

Vocabulary

5 Match nouns from A and B to make travel vocabular Then write questions with the
expressions.

A B

Baggage flight allowance control


Boarding passport card delays
Customs travel checks sickness
6 Work in pairs. Which of these activities would you do in a seaside resort, a big city, a
natural park and a campsite.

be active learn new things


go sightseeing spend time with friends or family
have new experiences take it easy

Real life

7 Read these sentences from a conversation at an airport. Put the sentences (a-h) in order
(1-8).

a A: What? How has that happened?

b A: Well, letť's have another look. Calm down.

c A: Well, have you looked through all your pockets?

d A: Is anything wrong?

e B: Yes, I have. And I've checked the suitcase

f B: I've been worrying so much about everything, and now this!

g B. I think I've lost the boarding passes.

h B: I don't know. I thought they were in my pocket, but they aren't there now.

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