Personal anecdote: Getting lost

1. Travel verbs.

She ended up in Torquay when she was trying to get to Turkey.

Drag these verbs into the correct box.

2. Missing verbs.

Choose the best verb to complete these sentences.

3. Prepositions.

Choose the correct options to complete the sentences.

4. Read.

Read the email that Kumiko Tsuchida, a Japanese student of English, wrote to her English teacher and mark the statements true or false.

Dear Michael,

I think I need to study English much more when I get back to Japan – especially pronunciation! After I stayed with my friend Tomoko in London, I was supposed to go to Turkey to meet my husband. I asked a nice man in London for directions, but he didn’t understand me and he sent me to a town called Torquay instead of to Turkey! I caught the train, and when I got off I thought I had arrived in Turkey. I walked around trying to find my hotel, but no one could help me because they didn’t recognize the name of the hotel. Finally, in the middle of the night, a policeman found me and helped me. What a nice man he was! He found me a place to sleep, and the next day a woman from the Japanese embassy took me to the airport to catch the plane to Turkey ... and here I am at last! My husband was very glad to see me – 24 hours late!

See you when I get back,

Kumiko

5. Text completion.

Can you remember? Study the email for one minute. When you are ready, click on the Start button. You have five minutes to type in the missing words from memory. Type a word into the box and press Enter (or Return).

6. Write.

Choose one of the following tasks:

  • Imagine you are in London and you set off for Torquay, but someone gives you directions to Turkey. Write an email to a friend (about 150 - 200 words) describing what happened.

  • Write about a real journey that you made where you got lost. Describe how it happened, where you ended up and how you got back (about 150 - 200 words).

Useful language:

Travel verbs:
set out, get to, end up, get back, etc.

Past simple and past continuous:
When I got there, I looked for a hotel.
When the police found me I was looking for a hotel.

Reported thoughts:
I thought I had arrived in...

Verbs + wh:
I didn't know where I was...

Check spelling, grammar and the organisation of your story carefully.