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Unit 4: Travellers' tales

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  1. 1 Pop-ups
  2. 2 Hidden talents
  3. 3 Can't buy me love
  4. 4 Travellers' tales
  5. 5 The colleague from hell
  6. 6 Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
  7. 7 Career changes
  8. 8 Art
  9. 9 Project management
  10. 10 The dog ate my homework!
  11. 11 The diary of a double agent
  12. 12 Fashion forward
  13. 13 Flat pack skyscrapers
  14. 14 Extreme sports
  15. 15 Food fads
  16. 16 Me, my selfie and I
  17. 17 Endangered animals
  18. 18 A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
  19. 19 I'm really sorry...
  20. 20 Telling stories
  21. 21 Fakes and phrasals
  22. 22 Looking to the future
  23. 23 Becoming familiar with things
  24. 24 From rags to riches
  25. 25 Against the odds
  26. 26 Our future on Mars?
  27. 27 Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
  28. 28 Dodgy dating
  29. 29 Annoying advice
  30. 30 I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks

Session 3

What could be more romantic than jetting off on honeymoon to the Caribbean? In this session you'll read about a man whose honeymoon plans changed completely after he broke up with his fiancée. You'll also have the chance to check your understanding of some travel and relationship phrasal verbs.

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Activity 1

The man who got dumped just before his honeymoon

Jetting off to the Caribbean

Here is the beginning of a story about an unusual honeymoon. Read the text quickly and try to work out what the problem is:

  • John Whitbread has too many tickets for his honeymoon.
  • John Whitbread doesn't have a ticket for his honeymoon.

Read the text and complete the activity

Imagine you are about to get married to the person you love and then set off for a romantic honeymoon. Now, imagine that your boyfriend or girlfriend dumped you just before you were planning to go away. What would you do? Well, this actually happened to John Whitbread from Leicestershire in the UK. He was left with an extra ticket to the Dominican Republic after he split up with his girlfriend six weeks before they were going to get married.

John Whitbread originally planned to get married on Valentine's Day but this changed when the couple ended their relationship over Christmas. Mr Whitbread had worked non-stop to pay for the cost of the trip, which came to just under £2,000. He went to the travel agent to see if he could get back any of the money that he had spent on the trip, but they only offered him a refund for half of the money.

So, John was left with a spare ticket for a trip to the Dominican Republic.

So, what's the problem?

Did you get it? John Whitbread has too many tickets to go to the Caribbean - he has an extra ticket because his girlfriend isn't coming.

To do

Time to check your vocabulary knowledge! Do you know the meaning of the words in bold in this story? Can you guess from the context in the story? Try the quiz!

Working out meaning from context

5 Questions

Can you work out the meaning of these words from the story? Look at the sentences they appear in and make your choice. See if you can get them all right!

Congratulations you completed the Quiz
Excellent! Great job! Bad luck! You scored:
x / y

Well done if you managed to get all the questions right!

Next

Read the next part of the story to find out what John did with his spare honeymoon ticket.

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