Let

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Lets go!
Planning a Trip Abroad

• My first trip to the United Kingdom

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Letter to my pen-friend

• Dear pen-friend,
• Yes. I accept your invitation. I will come and
  visit you next July. Im looking forward to it.
  Im very excited about it!
• Did I tell you what were my favourite hobbies? I
  remember telling you that I liked basketball. But
  what I really love nowadays is cycling. Its
  great! Last Sunday it was my birthday. I was
  fourteen. Well, my parents gave me a new cycle
  as a present and I am very happy with it.
  Unfortunately I wont be able to take it with me
  to England. But I intend to hire one where you
  live. We could ride and see many places.

• Anyway, the thing is that Im preparing the visit
  and I shall be able to meet you personally for
  the first time. You can see the diagram next
  page. By chance one of the activities in the
  English lesson is preparing a sort of trip to an
  English speaking country, so it will be very
  helpful for me! Dont you think so?
• I send you what I have prepared up to now. Could
  you give me your opinion? Im sure it will be of
  great help.
• Best wishes,
• Josep

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Planning a Trip
WHERE?
To practise English To meet new people
WHY?
English speaking countries like the UK
STAGES
The Trip At the airport
The return Back again
The Arrangements On the phone
The Stay With the host family
ITINERARY
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The arrangements

• Here are the things Ill need
• My diary. A diary and/or a scrapbook is very
  useful. Ill gather information about the country
  and I can illustrate it with pictures and all
  kind of authentic materials. Ive been given some
  suggestions to write in it
• New lifestyle, entertainment for young people,
  special meals, description of an English house
  and comparison with a Catalan house, the town,
  the people, places of interest worth visiting,
  living with a family abroad, etc.
• When I visit my pen-friend abroad I must be sure
  that my partner will have enough information
  about me and that I have enough skills to
  communicate basic things at least.

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The trip

• I intend to fly to England. Its more confortable
  and there are special fares for students. (24,450
  pts a return ticket in July). I wanted to fly to
  Gatwick airport in London from Girona but there
  are very few charter flights and there were no
  tickets left.
• Ill check Internet to see if I can catch
  cheaper fares.
• I have to be able to book anything by telephone
  (bus, hotel, museums, cycle)
• I have prepared different dialogues about
  situations related to the journey to England.
  (vocabulary, expressions, situations,
  information).

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The stay

• I must know how to book tickets by telephone
  because I want to go to a pop concert by U2 on
  July 23rd in Reading. The same for the museums
  (Tate Gallery, Science Museum, British Museum,
  Tower of London and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum).
• Im doing cooking lessons to invite you, my host
  family (paella and pollastre amb escamarlans).
  Its fun and very easy to prepare!
• Id like to take you and your friends out for a
  meal. Can you recommend me a place? Pub or
  restaurant. Youll be able to check my English
  and correct my mistakes.

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The return

• When I get back to Girona I immediately will
  check the vocabulary I have learned during my
  trip.
• In my diary I will finish with my impressions of
  my stay abroad (probably about the English
  spoken, the nice places visited, your friends and
  family, new experiences).
• Ill develop my photographs and complete the
  album with some photos taken from brochures of
  places Ive been to.
• Ill tell my friends and relatives how wonderful
  the stay with you was.

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English speaking countries

• First language
• Australia
• The Bahamas
• Eire (Republic of Ireland)
• New Zealand
• The United Kingdom
• The United States of America
• Mother tongue with coexistence with another
  language
• Canada
• South Africa
• Swaziland
• Lesotho

• Official second language
• India
• Pakistan
• Hong Kong
• Philippines
• Singapore
• New Guinea
• Guyana
• Camerun
• Kenya
• Uganda
• Tanzania

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This is THE END
(Except attached docs....)
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The diary and the scrapbook

• A diary is a book which has a separate space or
  page for each day of the year on which you keep a
  record of appointments but often used mainly by
  youngsters to write down personal events or
  thoughts as well.

• A scrapbook is a book with blank pages in which
  you stick or paste scraps, which are small things
  such as pictures, newspapers articles, postcards,
  tickets, small brochures and so on.

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A situation At a travel agency

• Travel Agent Can I help you?
• Customer Yes, we would like to go to Edimburgh
  for a few days.
• T. A. I see. When do you want to go?
• C. On 17 July.
• T.A. And how many people will there be?
• C. Two. My friend and I.
• T.A. How do you want to travel, by air, by
  coach or by train?
• C. Well, you see, my friend doesnt like flying
  very much. She doesnt enjoy it.
• T.A. Do you think shed prefer travelling by
  train?
• C. Yes, Ithink so. And me too.

• T.A. Very well. Let me have a look at the
  computer. ..... . Right, I got them. Two tickets
  for the 7.05 train to Edimburgh on 17 July. Will
  that be OK?
• C. Yes, thank you.
• T.C. Anything else?
• C. Yes. Could we book a hotel for three nights?
• T.C. A hotel or a Bed Breakfast? A BB is
  cheaper.
• C. Maybe youre right.Well take a BB.
• T.A. Fine. Lets have a look at the computer
  again. ..... . Here you are. There are plenty of
  them.
• C. Thank you very much.
• T.A. Thanks to you.

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A recipe The Paella

• Serves four people.
• Ingredients
• 1 medium cuttlefish
• 129 grs of clams
• 3 tomatoes
• 1 onion
• 1 red pepper
• 1 green pepper
• 150 grs of peas
• 1 artichoke
• Some pork
• 200 grs of sausages
• 150 grs of spareribs

• 4 bowls of rice (400 grs)
• 8 bowls of water (800 ml)
• 4 shrimps
• 4 big shrimps (escamarlans)
• 250 grs of mussels

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The British Museum The Pharaoh Lord of the Two
Lands
The Pharaoh fighting
Ramses II (c.1304-1237 BC)
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The United Kingdom some useful information

• The weather in Britain is very changeable. It
  doesnt snow very often, but it can be rainy,
  sunny, cloudy, windy, foggy or cold at any time
  of the year. Be prepared for any kind of
  weather!
• The currency is the pound sterling, which is
  divided into 100 pence. You can change money at
  airports, banks and some travel agencies. Credit
  cards are widely accepted. British dont expect
  using euros in 2002.
• People queue for buses and they get annoyed if
  you try to push in at the front join the queue
  at the back. Dont forget, vehicles travel on the
  left, so be very careful when you cross the
  road. Look both ways first.
• Shops usually open from 9 a.m. to 5.30 or 6 p.m.
  From Monday to Saturday. Banks are open from 9.30
  a.m. to 4.30 Monday to Friday. Outside these time
  you can use cash machines. Museums, art
  galleries and other attractions are usually open
  from about 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Most people in Britain dont smoke. You musnt
  smoke in cinemas, on buses or on the London
  Underground, and most public places have no
  smoking areas. As a general rule, dont smoke in
  queues, in shops or when you are with other
  people who dont smoke, especially in someones
  home.

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Photograph Album
The Tower Bridge
Greenwich Observatory
A typical Pub
Newbury Castle
The Tower of London
The Big Ben
Bradford upon Avon
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A sample from the scrapbook
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Concert by U2

• After the performance

• During the Top of the Pops performance in 1999

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United Kingdom Fact Box

• GENERAL INFORMATION
• Official Name
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
  Ireland (see map next page)
• Capital
• London
• Flag
• The distinctive Union Flag (more commonly known
  as the Union Jack) was adopted in 1801, when
  the diagonal, red Cross of Saint Patrick,
  representing Ireland, was added to the red Cross
  of Saint George, representing England, and the
  diagonal, white Cross of Saint Andrew,
  representing Scotland.
• Anthem
• God Save the Queen

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland
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The Union Jack
UK anthem
God Save the Queen
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Saint George, the Flag and the Dragon

• Saint George, the patron saint of England, may
  have been a martyr in Palestine before AD 300,
  but no actual details of his life are known. The
  legend that he saved a Libyan princess by killing
  a dragon arose in the 12th century, possibly from
  the myth of Perseus, who slew a sea monster near
  the site of George's supposed martyrdom. His
  status as patron of England probably originated
  with the foundation of the Order of the Garter in
  his name about 1347. George is also patron of
  Portugal, Aragon, Catalonia, and Lithuania.
  Feast day April 23.