5. What kind of accommodation do you like to stay in on holiday? (What are the advantages of
that kind of place?)
6. Where do you go to have fun?
7. What kind of places do you like to visit while you are on holiday? (What do you do there?)
Handout 1. Introduction to the vocabulary of places
A number of words in English come from place names. For ex.:
bedlam
: |chaos) from the name of a famous London mental hospital once situated where
Liverpool Street Station now stands.
spartan
: [severely simple) from the ancient
Greek city of Sparta, famed for its austerity
canter:
|movement
of a horse, faster than a trot but slower than a gallop] a shortening of
Canterbury, a town in south-east England
gypsy
: [member of a particular group of travelling people] These people
were once thought to
have come from ligypt, hence the name.
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