English Test Holidays: Vocabulario, Gramática y Comprensión Lectora sobre Viajes

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Test 2: Holidays

1. Complete the sentences with words from the box

accommodation, holiday resort, charter flight, package holiday, guesthouse

  1. All the hotels are full, but we must find some accommodation!
  2. If the hotels are all so expensive, perhaps we should stay in a guesthouse.
  3. I want to fly to Cuba. Do you know if there is a cheap charter flight?
  4. Let's go somewhere without any tourists. I really don't want to go to a big holiday resort.
  5. I haven't got much money this year so I think I'll go on a cheap package holiday.

2. Match the words with the definitions

full board, scuba-diving, brochure, booking, snorkelling

  1. A type of catalogue where you can read about different holidays: brochure.
  2. When you eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at your hotel: full board.
  3. A reservation: booking.
  4. Swimming underwater with an air tank: scuba-diving.
  5. Swimming just below the surface of the water, breathing through a tube: snorkelling.

3. Complete the text with words from the box

When we arrived on the island, we were given the 1 timetable of activities. There was a lot of 2 laughter when we saw that the first activity was a beauty contest. However, the men weren't so 3 cheerful when they realised that it was a male beauty contest! The women, however, took great 4 pleasure in this. We were all a bit worried when we saw that 5 rock climbing was planned for day two.

Grammar

1. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets: will or going to

  1. The phone's ringing. I 'll answer (answer).
  2. I am going to take (take) lots of photos on this holiday.
  3. He's climbing too quickly. I think that he is going to fall (fall)!
  4. That homework looks very difficult. I'll help (help) you.
  5. Tomorrow she is going to see (see) the doctor.

2. Complete the sentences with the correct future form of the verbs in brackets: future perfect or future continuous

  1. We will have visited (visit) seven countries by the end of this week.
  2. This time tomorrow we will be lying (lie) in the sun.
  3. Getafe have just won the league! People will be celebrating (celebrate) all night.
  4. I will have read (read) 50 books by the end of the course.
  5. Don't go to the supermarket now. Lots of people will be shopping (shop).

3. Choose the correct option

  1. He could swim when he was three.
  2. We must finish the climb soon. It's starting to snow.
  3. The sky is very dark. It might rain.
  4. We haven't got much money. We must have spent too much yesterday.
  5. I don't know where to go tomorrow. I should have planned this trip better!

Reading: What do you like doing on your holidays?

1. Say if the statements are true, false or not in the text. Give evidence from the text

  1. Some people like to go back to their home town to see people they know: True. "...others go back to their home town to meet up with old friends and family" (lines 1-2).
  2. Laos has excellent beaches: Not in the text.
  3. Laos has serious pollution problems: False. "...its pure environment..." (lines 7-8).
  4. Vientiane is smaller than Bangkok: True. "in larger South-East Asian cities like Bangkok..." (lines 10-11).

2. Answer the questions in your own words

(Possible answers)

  1. Are more people going on holiday to Laos than before? Yes, the number of tourists who go there is getting bigger.
  2. Are people in Laos very stressed because of the wars? No, the people are very calm.
  3. Is it difficult to drive around Vientiane? No, there isn't as much traffic as in other cities in that part of Asia.
  4. What are the advantages of staying in a village? You can see how the local people live.

3. Find words or phrases in the text that have these meanings

  1. in contrast (line 1): while
  2. far away (line 4): remote
  3. frontiers (line 5): borders
  4. uncomplicated (line 10): simple
  5. very big (line 13): huge

4. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets

  1. I would like to go (go) to Laos next summer.
  2. I bought (buy) the plane tickets last week.
  3. There are (be) lots of things to do in Laos.
  4. I enjoy visiting (visit) monasteries.
  5. After he had visited (visit) Thailand, he went to Laos.