Vocabulary Unit 8 Travelling around ...

Vocabulary Unit 8 Travelling around

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begin to understand

go somewhere

think of

attend

meet by chance

travel around

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Listening Part 1 There are a lot of them who have music blaring out of their cars during the night … we can’t sleep with them making such a racket. Listening Part 3 Cycle path Pedestrians Motorists Get on/off the train Be more cycle friendly Luminous cycling jacket Reflective cycle clips I get beeped and shouted at

Listening Part 2 They’re so steep that their appearance is breathtaking ... we came to another remarkable sight near Lethbridge Listening 4 Pick up a language Head for End up (doing something) Get on with sb Top up (cellphone) I felt like doing I could have done without something

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A trip is a journey in which you visit a place for a short time and come back again.

Way refers only to the route that you take to get from one place to another.

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The noun travel is a general word which means the activity of travelling

Use a journey to talk about when you travel from one place to another

What's a collocation? a word or phrase that is often used with another word or phrase, in a way that sounds correct to people who have spoken the language all their lives, but might not be expected from the meaning. Go on a long car journey Be on a long-haul flight Rail travel Go on a cruise Go on a guided tour Go on a day trip/excursion Holiday Campsite Go away Package holiday Unspoilt/unspoiled island full of/crowed with have a good time have fun

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What's the difference? Voyage is a long journey, especially by ship Cruise is a journey on a large ship for pleasure, during which you visit several places Tour is a visit to a place or area, especially one during which you look around the place or area and learn about it Fun is an uncountable noun meaning ‘pleasure and enjoyment’: Funny is an adjective and it means ‘amusing’ or ‘causing laughter’. Funny can also mean ‘strange’, ‘surprising’, ‘unexpected’ or ‘difficult to explain or understand’ Go away means leaving a place and spend a period of time somewhere else, especially as a holiday. Go out means leaving your home in order to do something enjoyable, for example to go to a party, a bar, or the cinema Sights are places of interest, especially to visitors Site is place where something is, was, or will be built, or where something happened, is happening, or will happen. View is what you can see from a particular place, or the ability to see from a particular place

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Holiday/On holiday HOLIDAY as a singular noun commonly refers to a specific day or event: It’s a public holiday on Monday, isn’t it, so I suppose the banks’ll be closed? We use the plural noun HOLIDAYS and HOLIDAY in similar ways: We are all going to Croatia for our holidays this year./We are all going to Croatia for our holiday this year. We often use ON with HOLIDAY: They’re very good friends. We first met them when we were on holiday in Morocco.

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