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7C – Where can we stay?

Interactive exercises on holiday accommodation vocabulary, reading and the first conditional.

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Step 1 – Exs 1 & 2Read the dialogue, complete the table
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Step 2 – Ex 3Vocabulary matching & hotel steps
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Step 3 – Ex 5First conditional verb forms
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Step 4 – Ex 6Make sentences with 'if'
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Step 5 – Ex 7Conditional sentences & chains
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Exercises 1 & 2

Where can we stay?

Read the dialogue, then complete the table and write your prediction.

Exercise 1 — Read the dialogue

Mum: Katie, Jake, Harry. Can you all come to the living room, please? You know our next family holiday is coming up. It's time to plan our trip to the Highlands. For a start we'll have to decide where we want to stay. Here's my idea: I'd love to stay at this cosy bed and breakfast in Inverness. Look, it's on this website. So, what do you think?

Dad: Oh, please, Abby. I thought we could go camping this year. It's a simple and cheap way to spend our holidays. You know I love hiking. If we stay at a campsite, we'll be outside all day. Isn't that great?

Jake: That's a terrible idea, Dad! No way! We'll freeze if we go camping. And there'll be insects too, and you know how much I hate them.

Katie: Are you serious, Dad? I agree with Jake. I don't want to go camping! How about staying at a hotel? If we go to a hotel, there won't be any insects. And we'll have our own bathroom.

Jake: Katie is right. A hotel sounds much better to me too. It's more comfortable and the hotel buffets are fantastic. If we don't stay at a hotel, we won't get nice food!

Mum: I don't want to go camping either but I'm sorry, it won't be a hotel, kids. That's too expensive. But we could rent a holiday cottage. Or maybe we will stay at a B&B if you really want a good breakfast. Spending a few days at a B&B is a good idea. Maybe the people there can also give us some tips about local food and about things to see and do.

Dad: Yes, I think so too. If nobody wants to go camping, that's fine. But let's go to Loch Ness. Maybe we'll see Nessie, the Loch Ness monster…

Exercise 2a — Copy and complete the table

Where does each person want to stay, and why? Find the answers in the dialogue. (Abby's 'Where?' is done for you.)

Who? Where? Why?
Abby (Mum)
Harry (Dad)
Katie
Jake
Exercise 2b — Prediction
Exercise 3

Where do people stay on their holidays?

Match the words to the definitions, then put the hotel steps in order.

Exercise 3a — Match the words with the definitions

There are more definitions than you need (two are extra). Select a letter for each word, then click Check answers.

1. hotel
2. campsite
3. bed and breakfast
4. youth hostel
5. caravan
6. holiday cottage
AIt's a place where you go camping.
BIt's a small home which a car can pull from place to place.
CIt has many rooms and often a swimming pool and large buffets.
DIt's a place with no bathrooms but with a museum.
EIt's a small house which you can rent for your holidays.
FIt's a place that is almost like home. You stay at a family's place.
GIt's a big train with beds.
HIt's usually a cheap place where young people stay. Often there is only one kitchen for everyone.
Exercise 3b — Put the steps in the right order (1–5)

Select the correct number for each step (1 = first, 5 = last), then click Check order.

check out
ask about prices
pay the bill
make a reservation
check in
Exercise 5

Complete the sentences

Use the correct form of the verb in brackets. Click Check answers to see your score.

First conditional: if + present simple → will + base form
1. If Jake to Edinburgh, he shopping.
2. If Dad time, he the castle.
3. If I a nice souvenir, I it.
4. If we at a campsite, maybe we cold.
5. I a photo of the Loch Ness monster if I it.
6. We famous if we Nessie.
7. Katie a local breakfast if we to stay at a B&B.
Exercise 6

Make sentences about a holiday in a hotel

Write complete first conditional sentences using the prompts.

Exercise 6a — Make sentences

Use the word groups to write full sentences. Sentence 1 is done as an example.

Example — Sentence 1
If everyone / agree, we / stay / at a hotel
If everyone agrees, we'll stay at a hotel.
2. If we / stay / at a hotel, we / have / a TV
3. It / not be / so boring / if we / have / a TV
4. You / not meet / other kids / if you / watch / TV all day
5. If we / go / to a good hotel, we / have / internet too
6. If we / have / internet, we / look for / information about things to see and do
7. We / ask / at the Tourist Information Centre / if we / not find / anything interesting online
Exercise 6b — Make more sentences with 'if'

→ The first part is the if-clause (condition).
← The second part is the if-clause. Be careful! Which part of the sentence should have the 'if'?

1. get up early → go swimming before breakfast
2. be hungry → eat at the hotel restaurant
3. rain → not go horse riding
4. try porridge → like it
5. visit museum ← be open
6. legs get cold ← wear a kilt
7. hear the bagpipes → put hands over ears
Exercise 7

What will we do if…?

Complete the sentences, then make a chain of conditionals.

Exercise 7a — Look at the pictures. Make sentences.

Complete each sentence using the first conditional.

1. We'll go hiking in the mountains if …
2. If we leave the hostel after ten o'clock, …
3. If there's a party at the campsite, …
4. If we go to the Highlands, …
5. We'll have a problem with insects if …
6. We won't stay at that hotel if …
Exercise 7b — What will happen if…? Make a chain of sentences.
Start here
If we have a party at the hostel, we'll go to bed late. If we go to bed late, …
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