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answers.

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most of it is on top of a huge volcano 4 miles
Faithful.
Yellowstone has more thermal pools, geysers
1 Some people expect it to erupt. anywhere else in the world!
2 This is a beautiful place to go
walking.
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Old Faithful
Old Faithful is the mgs
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2. Yellowotne Grond Conyon. every 90 minutes for
minutes, sending water 0W
3. Yellowstore Grand Canyon feet into the air. This is as
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4.
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B: It covers 3,472 square miles.
4 a) Fillin: deep, grizzly, impressive, The Grond Conyon
hot, erupts, thermal, hiking. of Veekone
1 Ahesra pools
This is is deep
beaut trails
canyon full of
2 .........t........s.prings and
3 geyser eropte. specta s of Yellowstone'wisth
most
4 ..csep. canyon and Lower alis.lve waterfalls, Upper
5 *......ing.. trails wildlife in this areaAlso, watch out for
6 .9rizly ....ears elk, bison and even such as wolves,
7 ..plBaäNE..waterfalls
grizzlybears!
b) THINK! In three minutes
write twO reasonsS why you
want to visit this national The Yellowstone
park. Use the phrases in supervolcano -ul
Ex. 4a. Tell your partner. it erupt?
The last time this super
5 T Ingroups of three, erupted was 640.00
find information about a national ago. Some scientiststhirt
park or area of natural beauty in ready to erupt again, bul
don't know exacty whl
your country and write a short erupts, it could destroy
pamphlet to advertise it. Use the western US!
pamphlet in Ex. 1as a model,
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 A letter from a
vacationresort
Dear Mark,
Lookat theletter and read the
1 first sentence of each How re you? Im having afantastic time here in St Lucia in the
paragraphin the letter. Is the
Carbbean Were staying in aluurious hotel right on the beach. The
letter formal or informal? Who
weather is abit doucyandyyesterday there was ahucg storm, but
we're stillhaving alot o funt
is writing it and to whom?
What is its purpose?
2Yesterday, we swam and sunbathed on the beach all
morning. Iwent snorkeling in the sea around acoral reef and
Readthe letter and match the Saw lots of colorfulfish. This afternoon we are going trekking n
2 the rainforestt My sister Zoe thinks iel be scary but I cant
paragraphs (1-4) with the wait!
descriptions (A-D).
B Tomorow we're going to take ajeep tour of the
A2 activities so far and plans fortoday Island. We're going to vist abanana plantation and some
Bgreeting and opening remarks lovely quiet fshing vilages.
Well, that's ll for now, We're going for lunch at afish
CHclosingremarks restaurant now. See you when Iget back!
D plans for tomorrow Best wishes,
Mark the sentences (1-6) O for Steven
opening or Cfor closing remarks. b) Replace the words in bold with the adjectives
Which opening/closing remarks in the lists.
does Steven use in his letter?
A The weather here is bad, but we're still "delicious
1I'm really enjoying myself having a nice time. Yesterday, we went " exciting
here in Brazil. on a speedboat tour of the island - it was "brilliant
2 l'd better go now. really good! We're going to my favorite " awful
rll tell you more when restaurant now. The food there is nice!
Isee you. ......
...s.. " interesting B This is a really nice place. The
3 See you next week. "crowded beach is quite bad but there are a
4 It's wonderful here and
" beautiful lot of good historic sights to see.
the weather is fantastic. . . .
5 I'm on vacation in Portugal Writing (a letter about your vacation)
and it's great.!
6 Anyway, I must go now. 5 Portfolio: Imagine you are on vacation. Write a letter to your
pen pal (80-100 words). Include a bad experience you had.
4 a) Read the tip. Wha: Follow the plan. You can use Steven's letter as a model.
adjectives does Stevust use
todescribe the following? Plan
" hotel weather fish Dear .
Para 1: opening remarks, where you are, where you are
" villages
staying, the weather (How are you? I'm having.... We're
Writiny TLp Para2:
staying ... . The weather is . )
activities you did yesterday (include a bad experience
|Using adjectives in descriptions you had, what you are planning to do today (Yesterday
.../ Unfortunately, .... Today we are going to . )
Use avariety of adjectives instead of plans for the next day (Tomorrow we're going to... )
good, nice, bad etc. to make your Para 3:
Para 4: closing remarks (Well,I must go now. We're ... See you.)
descriptive writing more interesting. The
Weather was awful. (instead of bad)