B1 – Intermediate
A visit to Maldives would be a dream come true for anyone. Imagine waking up on a private island with its dreamy white beaches covered in palm trees, turquoise lagoons, and breathtaking views. Maldives is one of the best places to go snorkeling and scuba diving.
What if a hotel company in the Maldives is offering guests a once-in-a-lifetime vacation, would you be interested?
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2011/201115-maldives-resort-4.html
Discussion Questions:
- Where is paradise for you?
- Do you think the Maldives holiday package is good value? Why/Why not?
- What is on your travel bucket list?
- What is your perfect holiday? Describe.
- Where do you go for seclusion and privacy?
- What once-in-a-lifetime experience would you like?
11 replies on “Maldives Resort Offers $30K ‘All-You-Can-Stay’ Holiday”
Where is paradise for you? The paradise for me, it’s the place where I can enjoy with my family of the freedom and the relax.
Do you think the Maldives holiday package is good value? Why/Why not? The Maldives is good value, mainly for rich people.
What is on your travel bucket list? Go to UK, Paris,Berlin…Europe zone.
What is your perfect holiday? Describe.
My perfect holidays are based on mixed plans about relax in a hotel and to visit new cities and to learn their culture.
Where do you go for seclusion and privacy? I would like go to mountains.
What once-in-a-lifetime experience would you like? I would like to visit some differents places such as Canadá or Hawaii.
1.Where is paradise for you?
The paradise for me is a place close to the mountains and the beach with a lot of trees and with few people
2.Do you think the Maldives holiday package is good value? Why/Why not? In my opinion if you have enough money yes, but probably is too much time doing the same things every day
3.What is on your travel bucket list?
I would like to do a Safari in Africa and visiting an Asian country
4.What is your perfect holiday?
I would like going to a place where I can visit monuments , hiking in the mountains , practise some adventures sport and have a rest on the beach
5.Where do you go for seclusion and privacy?
I think that’s tricky but probably you can loan a little cottage in the middle of the mountain for seclusion and privacy
6.What once-in-a-lifetime experience would you like?
I would like learning kite-surf and driving jet skis or snowmobiles
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1. Where is paradise for you? A place where you can relax and enjoy in good company.
2. Do you think the Maldives holiday package is good value? Why/Why not? Yes, I think it is a good value. If you calculate the daily costs, it is less than 85$, and I believe that is a very good price to be able to live in a resort like those described in the article.
3. What is on your travel bucket list? Too many places… I would like to visit Norway, Denmark, Canada, Japan, Ireland, Scotland, some countries in Africa,… so many places I don’t even know where to start.
4. What is your perfect holiday? Describe. I would like to go to a place that allows you both relaxing in a beach with turquoise waters and good food, and learning about other cultures.
5. Where do you go for seclusion and privacy? I would go to a isolated place, with an excellent service that could provide whatever I could need.
6. What once-in-a-lifetime experience would you like? The experience described in the article about the stay in Maldivas sounds really good to me.
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1. For my the paradise is a place where I feel good, safe, relaxing on a beach but exploring a new city, country or continent.
2. Yes, I think the Maldives holiday package is good value because Maldives has a lot of things attractive for the tourists.
3. In my travel bucket list is to visit Japan, Australia etc. Places that are very far away and that I haven’t been able to visit yet due to lack of time and money. At least 2-3 full weeks are needed.
4. My perfect holidays is a mix: relax on a beach and explore a new country. All accompanied by good food and drink, visiting the most well-known restaurants/dishes in the area.
5. I don’t usually want privacy on my holidays.
6. I would like a once-in-a-lifetime experience similar to this article.
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1. Where is paradise for you?
Paradise is in a place where you have freedom of movement and have many leisure options.
2. Do you think the Maldives holiday package is good value? Why / Why not?
Yes, they have a good value for people who have enough money.
3. What is on your travel bucket list?
Go to Japan, Thailand and the United States.
4. What is your perfect holiday? Describe.
In which I totally forget about work.
5. Where do you go for seclusion and privacy?
I go to areas that are not touristy.
6. What once-in-a-lifetime experience would you like?
Go around the world.
Thanks for answering the questions on this lesson.
It will be a bit better to express this sentence:
Go to Japan, Thailand and the United States.
… this way:
Where is paradise for you?
The paradise for me it is a place where I can find the calm and I know that for example I would like to visit Maldivas and I will feel that I am in the one of places that I would like yo visit one time on my live.
Do you think the Maldives holiday package is good value? Why/Why not?
I think that it is so expensive, but I recognize that the people who can spend this money and think that this place are for them a paradise will hey the money and the plane for travel to Maldives and enjoy this experience.
What is on your travel bucket list?
Maldives is a place that I would like to visit, but it is so expensive for take a holidays.
What is your perfect holiday? Describe.
My perfect holidays are based on mixed plans about beach and mountains and I try to visit some differents places when I am no holidays, because I love to visit places that I never visit before.
Where do you go for seclusion and privacy?
I would like going some places such as calm landscapes…
What once-in-a-lifetime experience would you like?
I would like to visit some differents places such as Egypt, Maldivas, Canadá, New York…
It is definitely a dream for most of us to visit Maldives. Thanks for your answers!
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