A visit to Scotland

Right. So you have two and a half days to visit Scotland. Not very long, is it? Um, and I suggest the first day stay in Edinburgh and in the morning go on a coach tour of the city, just for, for half a day, just for the morning, and on the coach tour you will see the castle, Edinburgh castle, which is very beautiful indeed, very impressive, and then from there you’ll go past the cathedral, St Giles cathedral, and then on down to the palace, Holyrood Palace. So that’d be the castle, the cathedral and the palace, just from the coach. And then the coach goes through the what we call the New Town, on the north side of Edinburgh, that, it’s not new, it was built in the eighteenth century, but anyway it’s called the New Town. Then from there the coach goes to the zoo and, it’ll just pass the zoo, and it goes outside the city in fact to two bridges that are over the River Forth, that’s about ten miles from Edinburgh, two bridges, one is a road bridge and the other is a rail bridge, for trains. And then the coach will come back from the bridges, back into the city and it will leave you in the city centre. So that’s the morning. And I suggest in the afternoon that you go back to the castle and you spend the afternoon walking around the castle, there’s a lot to visit in it and er the view also is wonderful, you have a wonderful view and in fact the view, in the view you’ll see the New Town that you saw in the morning and you can just see one of the bridges also that you will have seen in the morning from the coach, on the coach tour. So that’s the first day.

The second day I suggest you take a coach tour outside the city, a whole day coach tour, and there’s a lovely one that goes, it leaves about nine in the morning I think, half past eight or nine, we’ll check on that, and it goes right across Scotland to the west coast to a town called Oban, that’s O-B-A-N, Oban, and the journey is beautiful, it goes through lovely countryside so, if the weather’s nice, you’ll have lovely views, and in Oban you then take a boat and a boat, there’s a boat that goes to an island called Shiel Island and um, it’s just very nice you know to get out of the coach, have a bit of sea air and if you’re lucky on the boat trip you should be able to see some seals as well. And then the coach will get back to Edinburgh about nine o’clock in the evening. So it’s, it’s quite a long day but well worth it. And then on the third day, well you’ll only have the morning, so I suggest you spend the morning shopping, er, you can buy lots of woolens of course in Edinburgh, sweaters and things like that, tartans, if you want to buy some Scottish tartans, um and any souvenirs that you that you want to get, so I suggest you spend the morning shopping. And then the train back to London leaves at two o’clock in the afternoon and that’s about a five-hour journey so you’ll be back in London about seven o’clock in the evening. So I hope you have a very good trip indeed.

(from Advanced Conversation, by M.Geddes, G.Sturtridge, Sh.Been. Unit 3;2.4)

UNIT 2

Lesson A

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