WINTERLAND - Florencia Reyes

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I. Pre-reading: BUILDING THE SCHEMA
A. The pictures above are from an ice hotel. Complete with your own ideas
1. The hotel is ............enough to..... The bed is .............enough to sleep in.
2. The white statue is so........... because it is made office.
3. The stay there is too.........
4. The bedrooms are not......enough to sleep without central heating
B. Vocabulary 
a. Match A to B to form a phrase 
	 A 
1. Work on 
2. Treat yourself 
3. Great 
4. Get away 
5. Cater 
6. At the 
7. At break 
	 B 
a. breaks 
b. foot 
c. for 
d. from it all 
e. neck speed 
f. with / to a bit of luxury 
g. your tan 
b. Match the phrases in 1 to the definitions in 2 
	
Phrases
	
definitions
	1. 
	have a holiday in a place that is very different from where you live and work
	2. 
	to make (skin) sunburned especially by exposure to the sun
	3. 
	summer winter recess holiday
	4. 
	 the base
	5. 
	try to satisfy a need or demand
	6. 
	too fast, in a dangerous quickness
	7. 
	pay for something enjoyable that you don’t usually have
 
C. Look at the photos 
	
	1. Where and when was the photo taken? Was it taken in summer or in winter?
 
2. Have you ever gone skiing? 
3. Have you ever practiced any winter sports? 
4. What’s your favourite winter resort? 
5. When you want to get away from it all, where do you usually go? 
6. If you want to have a great break, do you go with your family, your friends, your couple or alone? 
7. Have you ever vowed never to be back to a place/ to a holiday destination? Why?
D. Reading
a. Match the places to the activities. Then read the article quickly to check. 
b. Can you add more information to the box?
	
	a. Dog sledding
	
	b. Cross country skiing
	
	c. Sunbathing
	
	d. Staying in an ice hotel
c. Read paragraph number five and answer TRUE or FALSE
	1. The hotel is very comfortable
	
	2. You can visit the hotel at any time of year.
	
	3. The temperature at the hotel is usually below freezing
	
	4. Guests often complain about the extreme cold.
	
Do the exam practice 
	Words in the text
	Definitions
	1. 
	Sides of the mountains
	2. 
	Form of mountain transport 
	3. 
	Comfort and quality
	4. 
	Area 
	5. 
	Large slow moving mas of ice
	6. 
	Putting clothes in a suitcase
WORK IT OUT:
a. Find these words and phrases in the text and underline them. 
b. Work out the meaning from the text
1. BOUND TO
2. FLOCK
3. APPEAL
4. CONSTRUCTED
5. THERMAL
6. CARVED
7. RINK
8. HUSKIES
9. VOW
GRAMMAR 
1. Complete the sentences using: SO SUCH TOO ENOUGH
a. The resort was ....busy that I didn’t really enjoy our holiday.
b. I was a bi ... hot for us o spend the day on the beach.
c. We got to the hotel ...early hat our room hadn’t been cleaned.
d. There wasn’t...time for us o see all the sights. 
e. It’s....a nice day that we should go to the beach.
f. The neighbours were ....friendly people that we went out for dinner with them
2. Rewrite each pair of sentences as one sentence using the word given in bold.
a. The resort was very big. We got lost a few times. SO
b. The hotel was very expensive. We couldn’t stay there. TOO
c. Australia is a long way away. It takes a day to get there. SUCH
d. The weather’s quite bad. We weren’t going to the beach. ENOUGH
e. The hotel was very dirty. We decided to say somewhere else. SUCH
f. The hotel was very dirty. We decided to stay somewhere else. SO
g. I’m young. My mum won’t let me go on holiday with my friends. TOO
Have your say!!! 
Write a brief text
1. What holiday destination would you go to? Consider
2. What holiday destination would you not go to? Consider
Distance: far- near - not so far – not so close
Temperature: cold—hot warm freezing cold-
Prices: expensive- cheap- a bargain
Crowded: too crowded isolated --- secluded
a. Complete SO SUCH TOO ENOUGH 
1. She’s …lazy that she gets up at 12 and goes to sleep at 3 pm. 
2. He drove …..fast that he arrived in La Rioja in less than 90 minutes. 
I had seen …..many movies that my eyes ached. 
4. It was ….a hot day that I could hardly move and my head spun around. 
5. She used …cruel words that the girl burst in tears. 
6. He’s .... a fool that he believes anything. 
7. We had been working for hours to finish the project when we realized that it was …. lovely day that we decided to get away from it all and have a break in the nearest camping site. 
8. He has ….a tiny car that only the driver can get in. 
9. He is …selfish to realize what she feels. 
10. Her problem is that she is …..kind. 
11. Mothers-in-law think that their daughters –in-law are not good.....for their children. 
12. She’s intelligent ………………..to make decisions for herself. 
13. One hour is not long……………….to finish the test. 
14. He earns ……………………..money to make ends meet-. 
15. There’s not ………….room for another person. 
16. After the race she said she had had …………………. Challenges for a lifetime. 
E. Transformation 
a. I hadn’t seen him for so long that I had forgotten what he looked like. SUCH 
I hadn’t seen him for such a long time .that I had forgotten what he looked like. 
b. He had to walk so long that when he stopped he fell heavily onto the floor. WAY 
He had to walk ….that when he stopped he fell heavily onto the floor. 
c. He ate so much cake that he had to unfasten his belt. A LOT OF 
 He ate ....... that he had to unfasten his belt.