LESSON 6A READING AND VOCABULARY
Travel Adventures and Charities - Complete Learning Guide
📚 Table of Contents
💬 1. Speaking About Travel
In pairs, answer the questions:
✈️ Question 1
Do you like travelling? Say why.
🌍 Question 2
What countries would you like to visit?
Students' own answers
📖 2-4. Reading Comprehension
2. Look at photo, map and title. What is the text about?
b. A man who travelled around the world without using planes
3. Read the text and choose correct answers:
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b. Graham made the journey for more than one reason
2
c. in Morocco
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d. invited Graham to meet her family
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d. It became a country after he visited it
📝 4-6. Vocabulary Practice
4. Match words with definitions:
1. hitchhike - to travel for free with strangers
2. overland - not by sea or air
3. valid - legal, authentic, acceptable
4. set out - starting a journey
5. solo - alone
6. hitchhike - travelling in another person's vehicle
7. hospitable - welcoming to visitors
5. Complete questions with correct word forms:
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Is it a good idea to hitchhike on your own at night?
2
Have you got a valid passport? When did you get it?
3
Are people in your country hospitable?
4
How do you feel when you set out on a long journey?
5
Can you travel overland from your country to Norway?
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Do you prefer to travel solo or with someone else?
🤝 6-8. Charity Work
6. Listen and tick what you hear:
✓ charity
clean
✓ raise
✓ teaches
✓ safe
✓ magazine
7. REFLECT | Values Discussion:
💡 Question 1
Why are charities important?
🤝 Question 2
Would you like to join a charity? Say why.
Students' own answers
8. Research and present a charity:
ℹ️ Charity Info
• What does it do?
• Where does it operate?
• When did it begin?
• How does it raise money?
• Does it publish a magazine?
🎯 Research Task
In pairs, find information about another charity and present to the class
📒 Workbook Exercises
1. Read the text and choose correct answers:
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d. travel in a car
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b. needed a rest from each other after crossing the Atlantic
3
b. continued alone, but often travelled with other people
4
c. some weeks
2. Match travel verbs with definitions:
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to collect someone in your car - pick up
2
to get a bus - catch
3
to put your things in a bag - pack
4
when the plane leaves the airport - take off
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the opposite of take down - put up
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to go somewhere - travel
3. Talk about places you want to visit:
Student's own answers
🔗 Additional Travel & Charity Resources
🌐 External Resources:
📚 Adventure Travel Stories:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure
🎓 Charity Work Opportunities:
https://www.unv.org/
https://www.unv.org/
🏫 Travel Vocabulary Guide:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/vocabulary/english-for-travel
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/vocabulary/english-for-travel
