Travel and Tourism Recommendations- Numbers Practice

Travel and Tourism Recommendations- Numbers Practice
Look at the page below that your teacher tells you to. Ask for a recommendation related to
one of the lines on the worksheet and listen to your partner’s/ partners’ recommendation(s)
for travellers. Ask for more details, give feedback and/ or share your own ideas, and
respond positively or politely respond negatively to their suggestions. Then switch roles
and do the same with your partner’s choice of a line from below. Continue taking turns
asking for, giving and responding to recommendations until your teacher stops you.

Suggested follow-up questions
How big
How can I get to
How cold
How far
How heavy
How high…?
How hot
How humid
How long
How many
How many percent
How much
How much does… weigh?
How often
How strong
How tall…?
How wide
What percentage
What temperature
What time
When
Where
Which month
Which season

Ask about any situations, numbers, etc below that you don’t understand or can’t imagine a
recommendation for, discussing your recommendations each time.

Look at the figures version of the worksheet. Read out one line, including the number if
one is included. Your partner will help you if they think you pronounced the number
wrongly or if they can think of another way of saying the same thing. For the lines which
have no figures, think of example numbers after reading out the line, e.g. “one dollar
twenty (cents)” for “cheap breakfast”.

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2020

Figures version
 1 1/2 days at the beginning of the month after next
 3 3/4 hours free in the afternoon
 a few teenagers
 14 days to see the whole country
 a hotel for less than 2 x the price of a youth hostel
 a large party with 4/5 women and 1/5 men
 a quick lunch/ a restaurant with quick service
 a total budget of $1200
 a weekend with 1/3 of the time in a city and 2/3 in the countryside
 accommodation for ~ 2/3 the price of a hotel
 accommodation for a couple of months (e.g. while working as a consultant)
 attractions < 20 min from here
 best value viewing platform(s)
 cheap breakfast
 compact edible souvenirs
 daytrip < 1 1/4 hr from here
 dinner and drinks for up to $30
 dinner for $14.50 per person max.
 duty free goods (up to the duty-free limits)
 eating outdoors in the autumn or early winter
 entertainment 23:30 – 02:30
 escaping the heat
 good times to get photos of flowers
 good times to take photos in temples/ shrines
 high places worth going to (skyscrapers, mountains, etc)
 how to cope with or avoid the humidity
 low alcohol drinks
 low calorie snacks
 outdoor activities between 25/7 and 31/8
 regular events worth attending/ regular events worth seeing
 restaurants with good views
 several days in the middle of next month
 skiing somewhere not too cold
 somewhere for one or two quick drinks
 somewhere nice to buy a cheap holiday home
 somewhere with temperatures between 26 deg. and 29 deg. in the summer
 somewhere worth going twice/ somewhere worth going back for a second time
 souvenirs for $10 +/- 10%
 souvenirs up to 13 kg
 suitable clothes to bring to visit in this season
 the best karaoke deals
 this time next year
 when to visit (street/ wholesale/ fish/ antiques) markets
 with a 7 1/2 yr old child

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 one and a half days at the beginning of the month after next
 three and a quarter hours free in the afternoon
 a few teenagers
 a fortnight (= two weeks/ fourteen days) to see the whole country
 a hotel for less than two times (= less than double) the price of a youth hostel
 a large party with four fifths women and a fifth (= one fifth) men
 a quick lunch/ a restaurant with quick service
 a total budget of one thousand two hundred dollars (= twelve hundred dollars)
 a weekend with one third of the time in a city and two thirds in the countryside
 accommodation for about (= approximately/ around) two thirds the price of a hotel
 accommodation for a couple of months (e.g. while working as a consultant)
 attractions less than (= under/ below) twenty minutes from here
 best value viewing platform(s)
 cheap breakfast
 compact edible souvenirs
 daytrip under (= less than/ below) one and a quarter hours from here
 dinner and drinks for up to thirty dollars
 dinner for fourteen dollars and fifty cents (= fourteen dollars fifty) per person max.
 duty free goods (up to the duty-free limits)
 eating outdoors in the autumn or early winter
 entertainment from eleven thirty p.m. to two thirty a.m. (= between half past eleven at

night and half past two in the morning)

 escaping the heat
 good times to get photos of flowers
 good times to take photos in temples/ shrines
 high places worth going to (skyscrapers, mountains, etc)
 how to cope with or avoid the humidity
 low alcohol drinks
 low calorie snacks
 outdoor activities between the twenty fifth of July and the thirty first of August
 regular events worth attending/ regular events worth seeing
 restaurants with good views
 several days in the middle of next month
 skiing somewhere not too cold
 somewhere for one or two quick drinks
 somewhere nice to buy a cheap holiday home
 somewhere between twenty six and twenty nine degrees (Celsius) in the summer
 somewhere worth going twice/ somewhere worth going back for a second time
 souvenirs for ten dollars plus or minus ten percent
 souvenirs up to thirteen kilogrammes
 suitable clothes to bring to visit in this season
 the best karaoke deals
 this time next year
 when to visit (street/ wholesale/ fish/ antiques) markets
 with a seven and a half year old child

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2020