1. Can you remember?

Can you remember four things about the hotel that the Hilton wants to build?
There's a prompt for you in each of the questions. The first one has been
done for you as an example.

1.
rooms  
2.
food  
3.
church  
4.
solar panels  
5.
beach  

Now compare your sentences with those from the text.

2. Word order.

Put these words in order to make sentences about moon travel.

3. Would for hypothesising.

Here are two more questions about holidays on the Moon.

1. What would the journey to the Moon be like?
2. Who would go?


Look at the eight sentences from exercise 2.
Decide if they refer to (a) the journey or (b) who would go.

For more information about would see the Grammar Reference.

4. Word order.

Put the words in order to make sentences.

5. Sentences with would.

What would an excursion in the moon bus be like?

Write the sentences from exercise 4 in each box. Use the pictures to help you.

6. Verb patterns: Verbs of planning and organising.

The following sentences are based on the "Fly Me to the Moon" text. Decide if they are true, false, or not stated in the text.

7. Verb patterns.

The verbs in exercise 4 can be followed by different structures.

verb + to infinitive

The Hilton intends to use...

verb + noun

Scientists consider the plans...

verb + to infinitive AND verb + noun

preparing to sell; preparing a special report

Look at the sentences in exercise 6 and organise the verbs into three groups in the table below.

8. Missing words.

Complete the following sentences with the missing words.

9. Noun phrases.

Look at the five sentences below. In each sentence the subject is in bold.
Tourists would love it.
Tourists with lots of money would love it.
Tourists looking for something new would love it.
Tourists looking for a different type of holiday would love it.
Tourists looking for a room with a really special view would love it.

Underline the subject of each of the sentences below.

10. Noun phrases.

Identify the subjects in the sentences below and decide if you need to put is/are or nothing in the spaces.

For example: