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DESCRIBING A VISIT
How much do tickets cost?
When is it open?
Where is it?
How was your weekend?
What is it like?
A It's a castle with 50 rooms.
B £22 for children.
C It was great.
D
Every day.
E It's in London.
**For each situation (1-4) choose the correct
response (A, B or C).
1 Your friend tells you that he visited an amazing
museum at the weekend. How do you respond?
A What is it like?
B Why didn't you go?
c When are you going?
2 Your friend wants to go to the cinema. Ask about
the cost of tickets.
A What time does it start?
B How much do tickets cost?
C Tickets are £12.
3 Ask your friend what days a famous castle is
open.
A From Monday to Friday.
B. When is your holiday?
C When is it open?
4 Your friend asks what your new house is like. How
do you respond?
A It's great.
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B It was very cold.
C I liked it a lot.
5 Your friend asks how your weekend was. How do
you respond?
A It's got 100 rooms.
B Great. We visited an old house.
C
What is it like?
** Read the dialogue and fill in the gap
choosing the correct option (A, B or C).
Paul: Hi Barry. What's up? 1)
weekend?
Barry: Great! We 2)
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was your
house from the 18th century.
Where is it?
Blenheim Palace, a big
Paul:
Barry: It's in Oxfordshire.
Paul: What is it 3)
?
Barry: It's got 200 rooms and 1000 windows. Winst
Churchill 4)
there.
Paul: Really? When is it open?
Barry: 5)
do tickets cost?
Paul: 6)
Barry: £27 for adults and £24 for children.
Read the article. Complete
the words below.
1 A How
2 A watched
3 A from
4 A lived
5 A At 11 o'clock. B. In 1850.
6 A Where
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downstairs
SHAKESPEARE'S
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was in Stratford-upon-Avon la
1)
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there in the 16th century wh
parents and his seven brothers
is a beautiful 2)
B What
B travelled
B like
B discovered C looked
B
The house isn't very big.
C Where
C visiter living room and a room whe
C in gloves and upstairs there ar
I loved the big 5)
didn't write here. He moved
C Every My visit to Shakesp
B How much C How Everyone can learn a lo
400,000 people come ever-
is it?
Complete the dialogue below. Use: nea
bedrooms, outside, when, open, where, holidays,
fourteenth, amazing. There are two extra word
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Jessica: Hi, Louise. How are you? How was your
weekend?
is a great place to visit.
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Louise: It was 1)
a big house from the 2)
Jessica: Wow! 3)
Louise: It's in Scotland, 4)
Jessica: What is it like?
Louise: It's got 775 rooms. There are 93
5)
_! Kings and queens stayed
there for 6)
Jessica: Sounds great! When is it open?
Louise: From April to August but it's 7)
every day.
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century
the mountains
Read the article
contains ...
1 a recommenda
2 details about S
3 the reason the
4 a description c
5 when the writ
Put the wor
1 bedroom/th
2 house/yell
3 interesting
4 visit/pala.
5 two/kitc