Hometown & travel — Workbook

Complete each sentence with a word or phrase from the box: vibrant, dilapidated, picturesque, outskirts, hidden gem, tourist trap.

1. The old market street is absolutely ___ at night — music, food, people everywhere.Show answer
2. They live on the ___ of the city, twenty minutes from the centre by tram.Show answer
3. That restaurant by the cathedral is a complete ___ : bad food, high prices, no locals.Show answer
4. The factory has been empty for years and it's now completely ___ .Show answer
5. It's a tiny ___ village with white houses and blue doors.Show answer
6. This bookshop café is a real ___ — almost no tourists know it.Show answer

Correct, rewrite or complete each item. Focus on the target grammar of this lesson.

1. Lisbon is more cheap than Paris.Show answer
2. This is the more beautiful square in the city.Show answer
3. The metro is much more fast that the bus.Show answer
4. My hometown isn't as noisy than Madrid.Show answer
5. Write ONE sentence comparing your hometown with a city you have visited, using a superlative.Show answer

Look back at the class-book reading. Answer briefly in your own words.

1. What is 'the hometown paradox' in the reading?Show answer
2. What does the writer notice after living abroad?Show answer
3. Do you feel this paradox about your own town? Give one example.Show answer

Rita and Daniel compare the city they grew up in with the one they live in now.

1. Which city does Rita find more liveable, and why?Show answer
2. What is the biggest advantage Daniel mentions?Show answer
3. Which superlatives can you hear?Show answer

Write 70–100 words comparing two places you know well. Use at least TWO comparatives, ONE superlative and one 'not as … as' structure.

Look back at your notes from class. Answer briefly.

1. Which part of this lesson do you already use naturally in English?Show answer
2. Which language point still feels difficult? Write ONE sentence you will practise this week.Show answer