Reading A blog
1 Look at the photos of a shopping
centre in Dubai. What can you do
there?
DUBA
I'm Liam. I'm 15 years old an
from Cambridge. My paren
working in Dubai this year
writing all my news about the
on this blog. Hope you like in
My parents are
this year som
Read Liam's blog and check your
ideas to Exercise 1. Then match
the photos to the places in bold.
a Sega Republic
3 Read Liam's blog again. What are
the numbers about?
50 million
150
1200 22 120
indoor the
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Explore extreme adjectives
4 Look at the adjectives from Liam's
blog. Do they mean very good or
very bad?
amazing awful
wonderful great brilliant
5 Find three adjectives in the
text that mean very hot, very
cold and very big. Do we use
very or absolutely before these
adjectives?
Vocabulary bank page 128
A DAY AT THE MALL
POSTED BY ENGLISHBOYINDUBAI
SATURDAY 20 APRIL
If you want to go somewhere
amazing, try the Dubai Mall. We
went there today and I've never
seen anything like it. More than
50 million people visit the mall
every year and it's got about 1,200
shops, 22 cinema screens and 120
cafés and restaurants. I wasn't
interested in the shops (I think
shopping is awful - so boring!) but
there's something for everyone at
the Dubai Mall!
We spent a long time watching
the fish in the wonderful
Underwater Zoo. There are more
than 33,000 fish there-even
sharks! And I also loved skating
on the Olympic-size ice rink.
Outside in the sun it was boiling,
but inside on the rink I wore a
sweater because it's absolutely
freezing. The temperature of the
ice is below zero! After the ice rink,
we had a great time at the mall's
theme park, the Sega Republic.
It's brilliant - it's got 150 games
and rides.
In the evening we stayed to watch
the Dancing Fountain and no
one should miss this. It's a really
amazing light show outside on the
lake. That's something I'll never
forget
Your turn
6 Work with a partner. Ask and
answer the questions,
1 Would you like to visit the Dubai
Mall?
2 What would you like to do there?
3 Are there many shopping centres in
your town?
4 How often do you go there?
5 What other things can you do
there?
- Hi. Let me inroduce myself. My name is Alex . And yours?
- I'm Nadia. Where are you from?
- I live not far from Moscow . And what about you?
- How cool ! You live near the capital, and I live in Volgograd.
- Oh, the hero-city . What is your place famous for ?
- The main attraction of Volgograd is, of course , Mamaev Kurgan . We have the most beautiful promenade in the world. The Volga is the most beautiful river in the world .
- You tell so exciting about your city that I want to visit you .
- Come and see. And I like that you live near Moscow . I love being in this city. How do you get to the capital from your place?
- By the train .
- And do you like to live there ?
- No, not really .
- Why ?
- We have a very bad environment . There are lots of factories in our city.
- In Volgograd, there is the same situation .
- Oh, they are going to offer lunch for us.
- Bon Appetit .
- Привет.
- Привет. Давайте знакомиться. Меня зовут Алекс. А вас?
- Я Надя. Откуда вы?
- Я живу недалеко от Москвы. А вы?
- Как здорово! Вы живете рядом со столицей, а я живу в Волгограде.
- О, город-герой. Чем он славится?
- Самая главная достопримечательность Волгограда это, конечно, Мамаев курган. У нас самая красивая набережная в мире. Волга красивейшая река в мире.
- Вы так захватывающе рассказываете о своем городе, что мне захотелось у вас побывать.
- Приезжайте. А мне нравится, что вы живете около Москвы. Я люблю бывать в этом городе. Как вы добираетесь до столицы от вашего места?
- На электричке.
- А нравится ли вам жить там?
- Нет, не очень.
- Почему?
- У нас очень плохая экология. Много заводов и фабрик в нашем городе.- В Волгограде такая же ситуация.
- О, нам несут обед.
- Приятного аппетита.