UNIT 5
OUR GREAT TRAIN ADVENTURE!

1 | Look at the title and the table. Answer the questions. 1 Which three countries did this train go through? 2 Which four main towns did the train go through?

2 | Read the travel journal and listen. Check your answers to Exercise 1.

3 | Read the travel journal again and answer the questions. 1 Where did the journey start? in Moscow 2 What did they see near Irkutsk? 3 What did they see in the Gobi desert? 4 Where did the writer eat?

4 | Answer the questions. 1 Which day of the week did they leave Moscow? Tuesday 2 What was the distance between Yekaterinburg and Irkutsk? 3 How far did they travel from Ulaanbaatar to Beijing? 4 How many days did it take to get to in Ulaanbaatar? 5 How far did they travel from Moscow to Beijing? |  | Why do some people prefer to travel long distances by train? Do you? Where can you travel to by train in your country?