Task 1
On page 22 there is some vocabulary related to traveling. The vocabulary is in context for you to first try to understand it in that way. However, if you need to clarify some meanings of these words you can go to page 132.
Using all those words write a short paragraph that combines them.
Post your paragraph as a comment below.
On April 2010, my family and I decided to go away for a while. Toronto seemed like a nice place so we were looking forward to visit it. On July, we asked our neighbor to look after our house and decided to set off. We told our grandparents to pick us up and they arrived at noon and took us to the airport, where they saw us off. During our flight, we had to deal with a flight attendant who didn't want to give us drinks, so we had to put up with that. Once we arrived Toronto, the first thing we did was to check in and later we went out to explore the city. We spent four days getting around and on the 5th day we checked out and got back home that same day. It was a wonderful trip. Juan Diego Barboza
ResponderBorrarToday my best friend Fabian and I set off at 6 am because we want to make a long trip to Guanacaste because of his birthday. Our parents told us that we need get back to home the next week at 8 pm. We are look forward about that because we can get around Guanacaste for nearly 7 days. Also they told us that Diego, my uncle could pick us up when we arrive to Limon and take us to the hotel to check in, he will look after us. The problem is that we just want to go away of him because, he is like a police! It's really difficult to deal with this but we need to put up with him. My parents are going with me to the station for see me off. I really want enjoy this trip
ResponderBorrarAna Catalina Nororis
Last year I went to New York with my family for the Christmas trip we always do, first we had to set off very early to see our grandmother off, who was going to look after our house and pets, and to avoid traffic because the flight leaves at 8 a.m. and everyone know that at that time there is the worse traffic. The first week that we spent was for getting around the city and the most famous places, but the worse part was to deal with the awful weather. The check in at the Hotel was easy and no complicated at all but checking out was the worse, we had put up with a very disrespectful person who gives us a really bad time. The best part of these trips is that we always go away to news places so its great to always learn about new cultures. And when we got back there was my grandmother at the airport picking us up. Fabian Cordero
ResponderBorrarWhen I visited Manzanillo in the past holidays the first thing we did was to check in, later we went out to explore the beach, it was quite hot, is very quiet in the beach. My parents could not go but we went to leave the terminal to my sister and me. We spent one weekend in that place. To see the real Manzanillo beach life, we went in the late afternoon and in the evening to walk, the moment people have a chat, and the children surfing in the sea. And then in the evening go for some rice and beans first, and then to an open air restaurant to have some delicious Rondón, with on the background some caribean music ... It was an excellent weekend in the southern Caribbean.... Valerie Araya Trejos
ResponderBorrarEvery year, on December, my family and I make a trip to San Carlos. Through the entire year, we're looking forward to this trip. The day we're leaving, we set off very early, so we don't have to deal with traffic jams on the road to there. We have a friend to look after our pets when we go away. While we're there, we stay at a summer house we have, so we don't need to stay on a hotel, or check in and out every time we go out. Last summer, I went there with my best friend, so my parents left first, and the next day, we were leaving. The trip was very funny and cool, we had to put up with the buses and everything, but it was nice. When we got there, my parents picked us up. But we had to return, my uncles went to visit us, and see us off. When we got back, we were all delighted.
ResponderBorrarJairo Méndez Gómez
I love traveling it’s one of the best ways to relax and enjoy, the best part is to go away and leave everything behind for some days. I clearly remember some of my trips. Once I had to set off at 5:00 am because we were going to take the ferry and we had to arrive early. We were going to Santa Teresa, it is an amazing place. I hated to wake up at that hour but I deal with the lack of sleep just for traveling. When we finally get to the hotel we had the check in, which is always boring for me. The hotel was beautiful but I just wanted to unpack and get around. I was already looking forward to what we were going to do that day. In the afternoon we went to the beach and decide to go kayaking. Some people came to see us off so we leave and forget to look after the things we had in the beach. When we notice that it was too late so we put up with it. Then we get back we pick our things up from the beach and go back to the hotel. We stay there a few days more and it was very funny but it came to its end so we check out and came back home.
ResponderBorrarSofía Rojas Vargas
If I invented a story about a particle that has to deal with inspirational issues would you believe it? Well, let me try at least to amuse you.
ResponderBorrarIt was a sunny morning when the particle decided to set off, clouds were dancing around but the sunlight still managed to touch her skin. She was looking forward to her next life lesson, something that could make her smile again. Looking forward for an adventure, she said goodbye to her electrons, for they had come to see her off at the fence. Never the less, nobody came to pick her up, she went alone marching to the horizon. When she encountered the limits of quantum mechanics, she knew that the best way to spend the night was to get around calmly. She had to put up with the anxiety and tried to sleep on the grass because she hated the whole check-in check-out process of the hotels. When she woke up, the clouds were gone and the sun enlighten her teeth, she decided it was time to go away, to enter the vortex and be the first brave particle to cross the limits. Did she went back to her electrons? No one knows, yet.
Giuliana Cappella Flores
In 2012, I met my best friend Suni, she is from Germany and when he came to Costa Rica, she wanted to go most of the beaches. So to me it had not bothered me to visit places of Costa Rica until there came a foreing and described as beautiful every part of Costa Rica and I decided to go.
ResponderBorrarI started my journey, when finished classes and when my friend was gone. This was a stronger because I wanted to know and enjoy Costa Rica as another country motivation. My backpacking route started when I went to visit those unknown beaches of Guanacaste, then enjoyed afternoon in Puntarenas, eating a good churchill (although it sounds cliché) and make family and friends tours.
Get around and return to tell these experiences is amazing. One of my greatest experiences was when I turned 17, after a mystical and very welcoming party at my cousin's house in San Carlos, I woke up at 5 am and undertook a tour to a mountain to see a beautiful waterfall, was so majestic feel the cold and the morning breeze, walk and breathe fresh air and unpolluted. After receiving a swim and hydrotherapy. I think that will be my best memory of that which intruded my best friend, now my motto is: "Backpacking, without limits of time and money".
I'm looking forward to my next tour and go to the Caribbean :)
Fergie Acevedo.
This year my family and I have been planning a trip for holidays, and we want something really special, so since now my mom asked to the neighbor if he could look after our dog when we go away because we don't want leave her alone in home.
ResponderBorrarLast year we visit Roca Bruja in Guanacaste and my parents want to get back in there for visit some friends we made last time we went.
We are looking forward to how we are going spend our holidays in that beautiful place with the whole family.
My dad has been planning this way: we set off at 4:000 a.m because it's a long trip by car, then when we arrived at the hotel we check in, we dropped our bags in the rooms and go to pick my big brother up from the bus station.
After that, look for the best way to get around the beach because you will not allowed to miss the natural beauty of this place.
I hope everything gets perfect, I will not like to have to put up with some drunk or annoying people, I can't deal with that kind of persons, that will seriously ruin my holidays.
So hoping everything will be alright, after an amazing vacations we'll have to check out and see our friends off, and came back home.
Sharon Díaz.
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This summer my family set off a shopping travel to Miami; I was really looking forward to this trip. The saddest part was when my boyfriend came to see me off at the airport, and he takes my little puppy with him; but I put up with this situation, he just cant go with us; the last thing I said to him was: YOU REALLY NEED TO LOOK AFTER KIRA VERY WELL (kira is my darling puppy).
ResponderBorrarI was in charge of pick in the hotel and made the reservation so I knew very well the check-in was at 3:00 pm; we arrive at 12pm, my parent suggest to have lunch in a restaurant across the side of the airport. For my huge surprise at 2:00pm I received a message saying: Can you pick me up from the Miami airport? Was my boyfriend, he wanted to surprise me, so he took the next flight after ours. Because of the surprise I get lost in the time, and when I realized, the check-in was an hour ago.
When we was in the hotel and everything was perfect we decided to get around in a rent car, is cheap and comfortable for shopping; the huge problem we need to deal with is that our parents doesn't know anything of English so we need to helped them all day long, all days.
We get back from Miami a week after. Kira was so genuinely happy when I returned that I got really excited to be home.
Ariana Valerio
In 2005, my father and I decide to travel to coconut island, we move over to the Los Sueños Marina to aboard the ship but first we got to checking out our papers. Then we could get in, it was three days without seeing any land, in third night we got some climate problems so we got picked up our food from outside the ship. I was very scary to fall down the ocean. The island, it was very beautiful, we went walking around the island, for the last day I got the opportunity to did diving with hammerhead shark. That was a wonderful travel.
ResponderBorrarErick Valerin
If you have never set off on a journey where you have had to figure out how to get around, deal with raucous tourists, or waited several hours to check in at the hotel you've never been on an adventure. Next time you do, check out early so that you can take one last stroll across town, pick up another slice of that apple pie and let the city see you off. Have you gotten in trouble when you got back? Sometimes things go wrong and you have to put up with pesky landlords who did not look after your apartment. Nevertheless, you should always look forward to your next adventure and simply go away whenever you can.
ResponderBorrarMy family and I were looking forward a trip to San Carlos, The day we start our trip we arrived late to the hotel because we had to find someone to take care of our dog, we check in at 10 PM, the next day we get around SC down tow, but by the time we were at the city we have to deal with the problem that see her off my sister forgot to pick us up so we couldn't see her off. We see her until she got back from Panama. in the afternoon we noticed that the receptionist put us with some gorgeous girls in the next room,(excellent news) but the problem was that we were leaving the place the next day, we check out at 4 PM and by the time we go away i was really sad.
ResponderBorrarMy brother has his own apartment and when he goes on a trip he asks me to look after his flat, his dog and his plants. Normally I also drive him to the airport to see him off when he sets off to his trip and I'm also in charge of picking him up when he gets back. I even have to put up with his mess, he always forgets a lot of stuff for example the other day he forgot the time of check-in and check-out of the hotels he was going to stay at so he kept asking me for all that information. Sometimes I think it's a lot to deal with because there's always something that goes the wrong way but I find a way around the problems every time. My parents think I shouldn't put up with all that but I'm actually forward to his next trip.
ResponderBorrarJenny´s travel in Orlando, EEUU
ResponderBorrarHello mom!
I am fine. The flight was fine, but I felt sad, when I saw my husband to come to see me off. I arrived to the hotel at 6 am and I checked in the hotel, after I went away to Florida Mall, because today is after Christmas and there are good promotions. I went in taxi and I said to the driver: Can you pick me up from the main entrance at 9 pm? And he said: Yes. Mom, you don’t imagine the number of people that were in the mall, and there were rows in everything: in the bathroom, in the stores and in the food court.
In Forever XXI, I had a problem with other person; both wanted the same dress, but there was only one. We didn’t fight, because the manager appeared and he had to deal with us. He said: We have another dress, but it is red. Finally, I put up with the situation and I bought the red dress.
Tomorrow I like to visit different places in Orlando, and I think to take the bus, it is the way to get around to different places and I don’t have problems with driver. Tomorrow I set off at 6 am. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow.
I will check out on Monday and I going to get back on Monday afternoon.
Bye, Mom
Pd: You do not forget to look after my little cat.
Mariana Bonilla Vaverde
Last summer my family and I set up very early to went to Montezuma to visited some friends, we were enchanted with the enviromental richness of the place so we decided to get arround the there and left my litte puppy in a neighbor´s house.. when we went back there, we check out every place of the house looking for Bobby... but guess what.. he left... It was hard to deal with it, we just wanted him to got back, so we went check the whole beach loooking for him and nobody has looked at Bobby until my father offers money.. coincidence? I do not care.. he is ok and it is with me :)
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