Reading Who Where

READING AND WRITING UNIT 1
1 Read the text. Then answer the questions.
THE LONELY PLANET TRAVELLER

In 1972, Maureen and Tony Wheeler travelled across Asia. It wasn’t easy. They didn’t have a lot
of money, they drove an old car, but they had a sense of adventure. When they returned, they
wrote a book about their travel experiences. The book was completed in 1973 and it was a huge
success. The Wheelers realised that many other people with only a small amount of money
wanted to travel around the world, and they needed guidebooks to make it easier for them to do it.
This is how the Lonely Planet guidebook series began.
Since those early days, Lonely Planet guidebooks have become the most popular travel guides in
the world. Today, there are over 500 different Lonely Planet travel guides in eight different
languages. Maureen and Tony have got hundreds of travel writers.
Lonely Planet guidebooks used to be for young travellers without money, but things have
changed in the last 30 years. Today, the Lonely Planet company has got photography books, food
guides, a monthly magazine and a popular website for travellers.
Some people are critical of the guidebooks. They feel that Lonely Planet guides are destroying
many beautiful places in the world. They say that if a place is written about in a Lonely Planet
guidebook, many travellers will probably go there. As a result, quiet and beautiful places do not
stay quiet and beautiful.
Although the Lonely Planet guidebooks have caused certain places to change, the company is
also trying to make a positive difference to the world. It donates 5% of its profits to organisations
in poor countries. No one can be critical of that!
1. How did the Wheelers’ first guidebook help travellers?

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2. Why do hundreds of travel writers work for the Wheelers?
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3. Why do some people criticise the Lonely Planet books?
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4. How does the Lonely Planet company help the world?
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2 Write questions with the words below. Use the Present Perfect Simple. Then answer
the questions according to the information in the text.
1. how long / the Lonely Planet company / exist
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2. how / the Lonely Planet company / change / over the years
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3. how / Lonely Planet guidebooks / affect / places around the world
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3 Imagine you are a Lonely Planet travel guide writer. Write an entry for the website describing how to
travel in your area without a lot of money. Think of where to go to eat and sleep.
UNIT 2
Vocabulary
1 Match the beginnings in A to a logical continuation in B. Pay attention to the words in bold.
A B
1. The boy has been missing for three days and ...... a. to the earthquake victims.
2. There are many homeless people ...... b. get out of the rain.
3. We need to find shelter and ...... c. in the swimming pool.
4. Many countries are sending aid ...... d. I couldn’t breathe.
5. It took over two hours to put out ...... e. his parents are very worried.
6. The little girl almost drowned ...... f. I couldn’t find my keys.
7. There was a lot of smoke in the room so ...... g. after a natural disaster happens.
8. I searched for hours but ...... h. the fire.
Grammar
2 Complete the text with who, which, when or where.
Pompeii was a big and busy city in the year 79 AD. That was also the year 1……………………
a volcano erupted and destroyed it. Pompeii was completely covered in ash and was only discovered in the
1700s by archeologists 2…………………… wanted to find out more about
the volcano. Before it was destroyed, Pompeii was a port city 3…………………… was located
on the Bay of Naples. The ships brought items from all over the world, so it was a place 4……………………
people could buy almost anything they wanted. For this reason, archeologists have found many interesting
objects at Pompeii.
3 Join the sentences using relative pronouns. Make any necessary changes.
1. John Owens is a firefighter. He has saved many people.
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2. He was watching television that evening. He felt the earth move then.
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3. Rescue workers are still searching for survivors. They are trapped under the rocks.
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4. I ran to find shelter. I would be warm there.
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5. This was a tragedy. It must not happen again.
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READING AND WRITING UNIT 1

1 Read the text. Then answer the questions.

THE LONELY PLANET TRAVELLER

1. How did the Wheelers’ first guidebook help travellers?

2 Complete the text with who, which, when or where.

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