A Trip to Crete
1. Where did they spend their holidays last year?
2. What did they do while on holiday?
3. Why did they want to visit the south part of the island?
4. How did they get there?
5. Why did they find their trip frightening?
6. What were they afraid of?
7. Why did the driver have to signal with his horn at turnings?
8. How could they get to the ruins from the bus stop?
9. How long did it take them to get there?
10. Where did they meet a boy from France?
11. What was the trouble communicating with him?
12. What did they have to get over when they got to the ruins?
13. What did they find at the entrance of the ruins?
14. What size were the monks’ cells?
15. What did they think of the place?
16. Why weren’t they eager to walk back to the bus stop?
17. What could happen if they had walked to the bus stop?
18. Who did they meet?
19. What was the fisherman doing there?
20. What was the favour he did them?
21. How long did the boat trip take?
22. Did the fisherman drop them off at the bus stop?
23. How did they reach the bus stop then?
24. Did they catch the last bus?
25. How did they feel at the end of the day?
A Trip to Crete
Training 1
They went there by bus, travelling along tiny little windy roads. It was quite frightening to watch how the bus driver was manoeuvring the vehicle around all of the twisty curves in the road, quite breathtaking. At every curve they were scared that the bus would crash, and the bus driver had to signal with his horn at each turning as it was impossible to see if any traffic was coming from the other direction.
Training 2
There were only two ways to get to the ruins – on foot, or by boat. So, they started walking in that direction, along a dried-up riverbed. From the map it seemed that the distance they had to walk was about three kilometres, but it must have been longer, as it took them about three hours of difficult climbing and scrambling over rocks to get there.
Training 3
At one point on the way they reached the top of a hill, from which they had an amazing view of the ruins. There they met a boy from France, who they shared friendly gestures with, but couldn’t really speak with as they didn’t speak a foreign language. They climbed down from there together, into the grounds of the ruins. There was a fence blocking their path, but it was quite small and easy to climb over.