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LearnEnglish Elementary Podcast Magazine No. 09
Section 5 - Your turn
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Section 5 is based on 'Your Turn'. It helps you to listen and understand people giving their opinions.
Suggestion: Look at the phrases that the people use. Sometimes they don't use complete sentences. Write down notes and then say what you think.
In Your Turn you heard 5 people answer this question: “What’s your perfect holiday?"
Here are some things people talked about:
• sitting on the beach
• doing nothing
• getting bored
• being in the countryside
• getting away from crowds
• travelling around
• being free to go where you want to go
• going on a cruise
• having everything planned for you
• seeing a lot of different places
• going to a place that you’ve always wanted to visit
And what about you? What’s your opinion?
Do you prefer to stay in a 5-star hotel or go camping? Do you like sitting on the beach or visiting museums and monuments? Is it better to stay in one place or travel around? Do you enjoy being free to do what you want or having everything planned for you?
Write about your perfect holiday. Go to the bottom of the page to write your text.
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Tess: And that takes us into Your Turn – the part of the show where we ask you what you think. I told you earlier that I’m going away for the weekend, cycling. That’s a perfect holiday for me and that’s what we asked people for Your Turn – What’s your perfect holiday. Let’s hear what they said.
Voice 1: Ooh what a lovely idea, I love holidays. The beach for me. Sitting in the sun, with a cold drink and doing absolutely nothing. That would be perfect. Bah, my next holiday seems ages away.
Voice 2: Hmm. I just get really bored sitting on a beach all day with all that sand getting everywhere. I’d rather be in the countryside – or just somewhere where there aren’t any crowds. The beach is always so crowded.
Voice 3: What I really like about a holiday is when I don’t have any plan, y’know? I like travelling about and if I like somewhere I stay there for a few days and if I don’t I just get on a train and go somewhere different. That’s what I really like – when I don’t have to worry about timetables and all that stuff.
Voice 4: I would really love to go on a cruise. Y’know? A holiday on a boat where you travel to different cities. My aunt and uncle went on one last year and said it was great. Everything’s planned for you so you don’t have to worry about anything at all. Lovely.
Voice 5: My perfect holiday would be a trip to China. I’ve always wanted to go there. It just seems so fascinating – so different, y’know. And there’d be so much to see. I’d love to tour the whole country – but I guess that would take years.
Tess: Ravi? Your perfect holiday?
Ravi: I really want to go to Australia. A couple of my friends went there last year and said it was brilliant.
Tess: Yeah, I really like the sound of Australia too. Let us know what your perfect holiday would be.
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