Active Skills for Reading 1 (Unit 5: Our Modern Lifestyle)


CHAPTER 2 - Smartphone Apps for Travelers

Vocabulary Skill - Word Webs

A helpful way to remember new vocabulary is to create a word web. Word webs can help you to link the new words you have learned to vocabulary you already know. It can also be used to identify the main ideas in the passage and help you create a summary.

A. Create a word web about apps. Use words in the box and other words from this chapter. Explain your diagram to a partner

apps
frequent
locals
information
documents
calendar
combines
guidebooks
translate
food
documents
itinerary
confirmation
prepare
language
easy-to-use

B. Now try making a word web using words you found in another chapter. See how many branches and words you can add. Share your ideas with a partner.

Monitor your improvements.

When you have finished the unit, identify two things that you did well during this unit. As a class, talk about the improvements that you are making as readers. Make a list and post it on the wall in the classroom. Review the list regularly over the next week.

Smartphone Apps for Travelers

Traveling soon? Smartphone apps make traveling easier than ever. Unfortunately, with thousands of new travel-related apps to choose from each month, it can take a long time to figure out which applications are truly helpful. Here are three apps that will definitely make your next trip abroad a little easier

Talk to Me

Say au revoir1 to language phrase books2 after downloading the Talk to Me smartphone app. This is a great tool for anyone visiting a foreign country-it works like a translator in your pocket! When you speak into 10 the phone in English, it translates what you are saying into the language you select. You can choose between English, Chinese, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. This app is useful for the everyday needs of tourists and business travelers. It's also great for frequent travelers and language learners.

Tripit

Are you always looking for your travel information when it's time to check in for your flight? Tripit combines all of your travel confirmation documents, such as hotel room 20 bookings, into one travel itinerary. users send their travel-related emails to Tripit, and the app turns it into an easy-to-use itinerary with a calendar. Tripit also prepares maps and weather information for the places on your itinerary.

Cityseekr

Imagine being able to find whatever you need, no_matter. where you are! A map easily becomes outdated, and a guidebook typically helps you only in places the average tourist goes. What you need on y·our trip is an app that will 30 Jell you where the locals go. want to find a great sushi ·place in Singapore? Morning coffee in, Barcelona? A tailor in Mexico City? The Cityseekr app helps you find these places. It uses information created by Singaporeans, Spanish, Mexicans, and people from other popular tourist 35 cities, to give advice on restaurants, gas .stations, shops, landmarks, and more.

1 Say au revoir when you want to say "goodbye" in French.
2 A phrase book is a book to help travelers speak another language.


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