15505 conversation lesson on travel

Find someone who.....

Quickly ask and answer questions with a partner.
Write your partner's name on the line if they answer “yes” to the question.

Questions: Have you...? Do you like/prefer/get/own...? Are you...? Can you...?
1. Has gotten lost while traveling.

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2. Likes to go camping.

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3. Has hitchhiked.

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4. Prefers summer vacations.

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5. Has been to Europe.

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6. Likes to travel alone.

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7. Is going on vacation this winter.

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8. Has been to the USA.

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9. Has seen a volcano.

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10. Has traveled by airplane more than 10times.

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11. Can speak 3 languages.

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12. Has to travel for business often.

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13. Likes to go on organized tours.

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14. Has ridden on an elephant.

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15. Can drive a speedboat or sail a sailboat.

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16. Likes to go scuba diving.

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17. Has been to more than 5 foreign countries.

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18. Gets motion sickness.

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19. Is wearing clothing from a foreign country.

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20. Owns a guidebook for a foreign country.

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Lonely Planet travel guide in fraud scandal!
The Lonely Planet
company has been
by

claims of poor research and low pay. Author Thomas Kohnstamm, writer of
nearly a
Lonely Planet guides, has ‘revealed all’ in a book of
his own about life as a
travel writer. In “Do Travel Writers
Go To Hell?” he tells an
of his three years in South America.
He
that he made up large parts of the Lonely Planet book on
Brazil and didn’t even visit Colombia. "They didn't pay me
to
go Colombia," he said. He
: "I wrote the book in San
Francisco. I got the information from a
I was dating – an
in the Colombian consulate.” He claims he spent more time
women and accepting gifts from restaurant owners than
checking on train timetables and menus. He also said he had to sell drugs
to
while on the road.
Lonely Planet's publisher has stated that “All Lonely Planet guidebooks are
the result of
research and draw from the
knowledge of a global travel community….If it's in the guidebook our
authors have been there.” Lonely Planet said it had reviewed Kohnstamm's
guidebooks but did not find any
in them.

1) Vocabulary Match
1. Chasing _____

a. Stunned, Surprised, Shocked

2. Revealed _____

b. Tell the truth

3. Intern _____

c. 12 things

4. Account _____

d. Sufficient, Plenty

5. Travel Guide _____

e. Independent

6. Chick _____

f. Uncover, Make public

7. Rocked _____

g. Helps plan a trip

8. Make ends meet _____

h. Woman, Girl (informal)

9. Collective _____

i. Story, Report

10. Dozen _____

j. A student or beginner worker

11. Enough _____

k. Working on location

12. Inaccuracies _____

l. Running after

13. On-the-ground _____

m. Mistakes

14. Confess _____

n. Shared, a Group

15. Freelance _____

o. Have enough money to live

2)

Write a Quiz

Write 3 challenging quiz questions and answers about the article with a partner then test
partners from a different group.
1.

| a)

b)

c)

2.

| a)

b)

c)

3.

| a)

b)

c)

Role-play

3)

Here are 8 scenarios about bad things that could happen while traveling. Choose 2 scenarios with a
partner and prepare short role-plays.

1. You get in a car crash with your rental car. You have to call the rental company and explain
what happened.
2. You get sent to jail while traveling abroad. Call your consulate, explain the situation and ask
for advice.
3. There is a sudden natural disaster where you are traveling. What do you do? Who helps you?
4. You've broken your leg while hiking. How do you get help?
5. You left your suitcase in a taxi. What was in it? How do you get it back?
6. Your hotel has canceled your reservation and no other hotel in the city has a room available.
What do you do?
7. You lose your wallet, it had everything in it. What do you do?
8. Your child goes missing. What do you do?

4) Rank Which of these countries would you like to travel around to research for a
guidebook? Rank the countries from 10 (would love to research) to 1 (zero interest).

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the USA
Bhutan
Zimbabwe
Peru



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

Antarctica
England
Fiji
Finland

Ask and answer questions about the you picks and lowest rated countries with a partner.
Ask: Which country would you like to research the most? The least? Why?


5) Groups!
You met some nice people while traveling. You all decide to spend the next 2 days traveling
together. Look at the guidebooks, talk and make a plan together.
Discuss how much you want to spend, where you will go, how you'll get there, where you'll
stay, what you will do, what you will see, what and where you'll eat, what you will do for
entertainment in the evenings, what you'll do if it the weather is bad... etc.
Day 1

Day 2

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

6) Oh No!! What a disaster!
One or more pieces of information in the guidebook was horribly, terribly wrong!
What was wrong? What happened? Can you make it better or is your trip completely ruined?


Lonely Planet travel guide in fraud scandal!
The Lonely Planet travel guide company has been rocked by claims of poor
research and low pay. Author Thomas Kohnstamm, writer of nearly a dozen
Lonely Planet guides, has ‘revealed all’ in a book of his own about life as a
freelance travel writer. In “Do Travel Writers Go To Hell?” he tells an account of
his three years in South America. He confesses that he made up large parts of
the Lonely Planet book on Brazil and didn’t even visit Colombia. "They didn't pay
me enough to go Colombia," he said. He revealed: "I wrote the book in San
Francisco. I got the information from a chick I was dating - an intern in the
Colombian consulate.” He claims he spent more time chasing women and
accepting gifts from restaurant owners than checking on train timetables and
menus. He also said he had to sell drugs to make ends meet while on the road.
Lonely Planet's publisher has stated that “All Lonely Planet guidebooks are the
result of on-the-ground research and draw from the collective knowledge of a
global travel community….If it's in the guidebook our authors have been there.”
Lonely Planet said it had reviewed Kohnstamm's guidebooks but did not find any
inaccuracies in them.

1. Vocabulary Match
1. Chasing L

a. Stunned, Surprised, Shocked

2. Revealed F

b. Tell the truth

3. Intern J

c. 12 things

4. Account I

d. Sufficient, Plenty

5. Travel Guide G

e. Independent

6. Chick H

f. Uncover, Make public

7. Rocked A

g. Helps plan a trip

8. Make ends meet O

h. Woman, Girl (informal, slang)

9. Collective N

i. Story, Report

10. Dozen C

j. A student or beginner worker

11. Enough D

k. Working on location

12. Inaccuracies M

l. Running after

13. On-the-ground K

m. Mistakes

14. Confess B

n. Shared, a Group

15.

Freelance E

o. To have enough money to live