Unit 8: Travel
Articles - a, an, the
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- 1 Nice to meet you!
- 2 What to wear
- 3 Like this, like that
- 4 The daily grind
- 5 Christmas every day
- 6 Great achievers
- 7 The Titanic
- 8 Travel
- 9 The big wedding
- 10 Sunny's job hunt
- 11 The bucket list
- 12 Moving and migration
- 13 Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14 New Year, New Project
- 15 From Handel to Hendrix
- 16 What's the weather like?
- 17 The Digital Revolution
- 18 A detective story
- 19 A place to live
- 20 The Cult of Celebrity
- 21 Welcome to your new job
- 22 Beyond the planets
- 23 Great expectations!
- 24 Eco-tourism
- 25 Moving house
- 26 It must be love
- 27 Job hunting success... and failure
- 28 Speeding into the future
- 29 Lost arts
- 30 Tales of survival
Session 5
Listen to episode 8 of our drama, The Race. How do lobsters leave Phil sailing the yacht on his own? Then have a go at the Unit 8 Weekly Quiz. How many can you get right?
Session 5 score
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Activity 1
Drama
The Race: Episode 8 - Phil's audio diary
Phil and Passepartout are reunited with Sophia and the adventure continues towards Papua New Guinea. But there are further troubles ahead involving a credit card and a lobster! You can hear a summary of what happens here.
If you don't want to know what happens, listen to the whole of episode 8 first on the next page.
Listen to the audio
Dear Diary,
We made it to Papua New Guinea. We had to buy some food and water for our journey but we didn't have any money. We had to sell some of our things to pay for our supplies.
We set sail across the Pacific Ocean. And I cooked a special lobster dinner but it made Passepartout and Sophia very sick. I had to sail the yacht by myself. I was trying to find somewhere to land but there was a storm and I nearly hit the rocks. I really want to go home!
Downloads
You can download the audio and transcript from our Unit 8 downloads page.
Next
Listen to the whole of episode 8 of The Race.
Session Grammar
Articles: a reminder
Use the for specfic things, and when everybody knows which thing(s) we are talking about.
Use an instead of a when the next word begins with a vowel, or silent 'h', or 'u' when it isn't pronounced 'y' /j/.
We can't use a or an with plural nouns.
Use the in many expressions with ‘of’.
Use zero article to talk about things in general and the names of most cities.
Session Vocabulary
slap-up
large and very good mealtucking into
starting to eat food with great enthusiasmserving up
bringing food to a table and/or putting food onto plates for people to eatdessert
sweet food that people eat after a main mealfood poisoning
an illness affecting your stomach, caused by old or badly cooked food