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1 c) EXTRA: Writing and reading: • Homework: Write down a bad or a surprising holiday experience yourself. You can choose to tell a true story or you can invent one. Instructions Write at least 15 lines. Try to build up the tension in your story. Don’t give away too much too soon. Use colourful vocabulary. Be descriptive and and add details. You can exaggerate. Use lots of adjectives and superlatives. • Sit in groups of four. Each reads out his/her holiday experience. Guess wether it was a true or a false story. • Now vote for the best story in your group. The people with the best stories can read their stories to the class. The class tries to guess which stories are true. The class votes for the best story. I. Topographical Vocabulary 1. Introduction: An Idiot Abroad: India a) Reading An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1, as well as a series of companion books published by Canongate Books, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington. The ongoing theme of both the television series and the books is that Pilkington has no interest in global travel, so Merchant and Gervais make him travel while they stay in the United Kingdom and monitor his progress. Originally entitled Karl Pilkington's Seven Wonders Of The World, An Idiot Abroad documents Karl Pilkington's journeys to foreign countries under the guise of visiting the New Seven Wonders of the World. Though the New Seven Wonders of the World include the Colosseum in Rome, this is not one of Pilkington's destinations; instead he visits the Great Pyramids in Egypt (which is the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World to remain intact). Most of each episode focuses on Pilkington’s reactions to cultural differences and idiosyncrasies in the countries he visits. Gervais and Merchant call Pilkington during each trip, to assign him tasks often not related to why he believed he was visiting the country. These include training as a luchador, travelling the desert on a camel, and dancing with a samba school in a Carnival parade. It was confirmed by the show's producers that Pilkington has no prior warning about these situations. The camera man coaxes him along. Gervais commented: "This is a [more real] documentary than most others you'll ever see on television. We don't plan it, he doesn't know what's going to happen." A book entitled The Travel Diaries Of Karl Pilkington was published shortly after the series. It was authored by Pilkington and gives a deeper insight into his feelings on what he was experiencing. Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/VpePyoqbtJ0
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c) EXTRA: Writing and reading: • Homework: Write down a bad or a surprising holiday experience
yourself. You can choose to tell a true story or you can invent one. Instructions Write at least 15 lines. Try to build up the tension in your story. Don’t give away too much too soon. Use colourful vocabulary. Be descriptive and and add details. You can exaggerate. Use lots of adjectives and superlatives. • Sit in groups of four. Each reads out his/her holiday experience. Guess
wether it was a true or a false story. • Now vote for the best story in your group. The people with the best
stories can read their stories to the class. The class tries to guess which stories are true. The class votes for the best story.
I. Topographical Vocabulary 1. Introduction: An Idiot Abroad: India a) Reading An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1, as well as a series of companion books published by Canongate Books, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington. The ongoing theme of both the television series and the books is that Pilkington has no interest in global travel, so Merchant and Gervais make him travel while they stay in the United Kingdom and monitor his progress. Originally entitled Karl Pilkington's Seven Wonders Of The World, An Idiot Abroad documents Karl Pilkington's journeys to foreign countries under the guise of visiting the New Seven Wonders of the World. Though the New Seven Wonders of the World include the Colosseum in Rome, this is not one of Pilkington's destinations; instead he visits the Great Pyramids in Egypt (which is the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World to remain intact). Most of each episode focuses on Pilkington’s reactions to cultural differences and idiosyncrasies in the countries he visits. Gervais and Merchant call Pilkington during each trip, to assign him tasks often not related to why he believed he was visiting the country. These include training as a luchador, travelling the desert on a camel, and dancing with a samba school in a Carnival parade. It was confirmed by the show's producers that Pilkington has no prior warning about these situations. The camera man coaxes him along. Gervais commented: "This is a [more real] documentary than most others you'll ever see on television. We don't plan it, he doesn't know what's going to happen." A book entitled The Travel Diaries Of Karl Pilkington was published shortly after the series. It was authored by Pilkington and gives a deeper insight into his feelings on what he was experiencing. Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/VpePyoqbtJ0
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b) Watching: Karl Pilkington: The Idiot in India!! An Idiot Abroad Sky1 Best bits 2: India: https://youtu.be/TgjFmhs5rk8 Part I • Which typical aspects of India are already getting on Karl’s nerves
besides the festivities, do you think? It’s crowded, people don’t
understand hm, he can’t find the bus station, he has to take a detour
and does not get to the bus station
• Karl compares the festivities to… arson paintball
hooliganism Polish immigrants
• Why is Karl angry that his shoes are also dirty? His shoes were
expensive.
Part II • What are baba people? They are supposed to be religious men with
special powers.
• Why is Karl disappointed by the way they look? They don’t look
religious, they wear slippers.
• Why does it strike Karl as odd that the second baba is wearing
sunglasses? The baba is naked apart rom sunglasses, Karl finds it odd
he’s not worried that he might get sunbunt but he does protect his
eyes.
• Why does Karl ask the third baba if he helps around the house? His
nails are very long, he only uses one arm so he can’t help out around
he home.
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2. Describing sights: Nouns: Very popular touristic places: Vocabulary: Watch 15 descriptions in the powerpoint presentation. Try to find the correct location based on these clues. Write down the name of this place and the type of building. Also try to guess the others. a dome, an arch, a statue, a scupture, a painting, a church, a cathedral, a museum, a gallery, a mall, a bridge, a castle, a market, a palace, a mosque, a square, a ferris wheel, a government building, an amusement park, a pedestrian shopping street, a fountain, a park, a cemetery, a tower, a belfry, a fair, a temple, department store, a tower, a prison
1 statue Bruges Jan Breydel & Pieter Deconinck
2 Museum Bilbao Guggenheim
3 a gallery Milan Vittorio Emanuele
4 a sculpture Paris The Thinker: Rodin
5 A cathedral Barcelona: Gaudi La Sagrada Familia
6 a department store London Harrods
7 A belfry Bruges
8 a cathedral Paris Notre Dame
9 a cemetary Paris Pére-Lachaise
10 a mosque Istanbul The Blue Mosque: Sultan Ahmet
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11 an arch Paris Arch of Triumph
12 a painting Paris Mona Lisa
13 A Prison Alcatraz 14 A tower Pisa
15 A Bridge New York Brooklyn Bridge
16 A temple India Taj Mahal
17 An amusement park Paris Disneyland
18 a market/ a suare/ a gallery London Covent Garden
19 A square/ A palace Venice: San Marco
20 A dome/ a cathedral London Saint Paul’s Cathedral
21 A castle Germany Neuschwanstein
22 A ferris wheel London The London Eye
23 A fountain Rome Trevi Fountain
