Page 63 - American English File Student Book 3A
P. 63
languagedownload.ir
4 TELLIN G A S TO R Y
DISASTROUS TRIPS!
a A magazine asked its readers to send in
stories o f a time they got lost. Read the story
once. Why did Bethany and her husband get We asked you to tell us about a tim e you got lost.
lost? What else went wrong? Bethany from the US w rote to us...
b Read the story again and complete it with a
F R A N C E
connecting word or phrase from the list.
ANDORRA
although as soon as because but
instead of so then when ' GALICIA
X __
Lerida
P Useful language: getting lost
larragona
We were going in the wrong direction.
We took the wrong exit / turn. Madrid
We turned right instead of left.
BALEARIC
We didn't know where we were. ISLANDS
We had to turn around and go back in the
opposite direction.
Alicante,
c W rite about a trip where you got lost 200 miles
(or invent one) to send to the magazine.
Plan what you’re going to write using the
T house in Galicia for a summer vacation. We were going to first
paragraph headings below. Use the U seful his happened a few years ago. My husband and I had rented a
language to help you. drive to Tarragona, to stay for a few days with some friends,
Paragraph 1 When was the journey? Where and 1 then drive from Tarragona to Galicia.
were you going? Who with?
Why? The first part of the trip was fine. We were using our new GPS for the
first time, and it took us right to the door of our friends' house. Three
Paragraph 2 How did you get lost? What
happened? days later,2________we continued our trip, we put in the name of the
small town in Galicia, Nigran, which was our final destination. We started
Paragraph 3 What happened in the end?
off, obediently following the instructions, but after a while we realized
d C heck your story for mistakes (grammar, that3________driving west toward Lerida, we were going north. In
vocabulary, punctuation, and spelling). fact, soon we were very close to Andorra. I was sure we were going in
the wrong direction,4________my husband wanted to do what the
< p .47
GPS was telling us - it was his new toy! It was only when we started
seeing mountains that even he admitted this couldn't be the right way.
5 ________we stopped, got out an old map, and then turned around!
We had wasted almost two hours going in the wrong direction!
It was an awful trip 6 ________as well as getting lost, when we were
almost at our destination we had another problem. We stopped for a
coffee, but7________we got back onto the road, we realized that we
had left our dog under the table in the cafe! For the second time that
day we had to turn around and go back. Luckily, the dog was still there!
However,8________ the beginning of our trip was a disaster, we had a
wonderful vacation!
Writing 116
