Travel English: Visit New York City, the Holy Land and Vatican

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The Statue of Liberty in the Hudson River (Manamana, Shutterstock)

Let’s begin by taking some virtual tours

  • Discover New York City
  • Discover the Holy Land
  • Discover the Vatican

 

OVERVIEW

  • Our Travel English Lessons
  • Talking about yourself, family and friends
  • Talking about your community
  • Introduction to New York City
  • Readings: Pilgrimage Destinations in the Holy Land
  • Visiting Vatican City and Rome
  • Online Resources

OUR TRAVEL ENGLISH LESSONS

The English-speaking world (Wtmitchell, Wikimedia Commons)

 

Are you planning to visit New York City, affectionately known as the ‘Big Apple’?  Here, you will find the world within a city.

 

Or perhaps you are planning a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to Rome and the Vatican.

 

With our complementary English course, you will learn the basics to communicate effectively in a wide variety of common situations.   Try our 40 free online lessons.

 

Talking about yourself, family and friends

E1:  Introduction to the English language
(alphabet; parts of speech)

 

E2:  Meeting new people: greetings, introductions, farewells. Titles
(simple present tense of the irregular verb ‘to be’; subjects and verbs; word groups (phrases, clauses, sentences)

 

E3:  Talking about your family, relatives and friends
(personal pronouns; simple present tense of the irregular verb ‘to have’)

 

E4:  Talking about countries, nationalities and languages
(simple present tense of regular verbs; prepositions ‘from’ and ‘in’; interrogative words)

 

E5:  Talking about the weather, seasons and climate change
(the definite articles; omission of definite articles; formation of nouns and adjectives)

 

E6:  Talking about clothing, accessories, fashion and appearances
(colors; qualifying adjectives; the possessive adjectives; the gender of nouns and adjectives)

 

E7:  Talking about your home. Rooms, furniture, appliances. Size, shapes, colors
(indefinite articles;  the active mood of the verb)

 

E8:  Stating your age, address and phone number. Telling time
(cardinal numbers; prepositions of direction; prepositions of location and direction; time prepositions; imperative; giving directions; syntax of simple sentences; time adverbs/ now, before, always)

 

E9:  Talking about the days of the week and the months of the year. Appointments
(ordinal numbers; time expressions; direct and indirect objects; transitive and intransitive verbs)

 

E10:  Talking about your leisure time and hobbies. Routines
(adverbs; frequency adverbs; reflexive verbs)

 

E11:  Talking about key life events. Births, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, deaths
(the simple past tense)

 

Talking about your community

E12:  Talking about the education system.  Levels and subjects.
(imperfect tense; comparative and superlative adjectives)

 

E13:  Talking about work. Occupations. The office environment
(future plans; subject pronouns)

 

E14:  Talking about religion. Places of worship
(types of nouns; relative pronouns)

 

E15:  At the bank. Foreign exchange. Types of accounts. Credit and debit cards
(adverbial pronouns)

 

E16:  At the post office
(adverbial pronouns)

 

E17:  At the library. At the bookstore. Talking about literature
(I like)

 

E18:  At the restaurant. At the cafe. Different types of cuisine
(nouns of quantity; I wish; common expressions with the verb ‘have’)

 

E19:  At the supermarket. Farmers’ markets. Flea markets
(expressions with the verb ‘..’; nouns of numbers/a dozen of; fractions; multiple numbers/ twice a day, half a loaf)

 

E20:  At the doctor. At the dentist. At the pharmacy. Talking about your health.
(irregular past participles; agreement of past participles of verbs conjugated with ‘to have’; negative forms; common expressions with the verb ‘…’)

 

Introduction to New York City

E21:  At the airport. Check-in and departures; on the plane; arrivals
(present continuous tense; common expressions with the verb ‘…’; past participles of verbs)

 

E22:  At the hotel
(polite requests with the conditional)

 

E23: Taking a sight-seeing tour. River cruises
( conjunctions; the partitive article)

 

E 24:   At the aquarium in Coney Island
(progressive tense; Forms of the present gerund; use of the gerund )

 

E25:  Talking about the architecture of New York City. Buildings and bridges
(common expressions with the verb ‘…’)

 

E26:  Talking about art. Museums, monuments and statues in New York City
(capitalization and small letters; exclamations; demonstrative adjectives)

 

E27:  Attending a Broadway show
(object pronouns)

 

E28:  Talking about emergencies in New York City. Police. fire, ambulance services
(types of emergencies/ fire, ambulances, natural disasters)

 

E29:  Talking about festivals and celebrations in New York City
(impersonal pronouns)

 

E30:  Talking about the geography and neighborhoods of New York City
(subjunctive)

 

E31:  Talking about the government of New York City
(abbreviations and acronyms)

 

E32:  Talking about the history of New York City
(narration of events in the past)

 

E33:  Talking about the media in New York City
(punctuation)

 

E 34:  Talking about music and the performing arts in New York City
(comparison of inequality and equality; absolute superlative; prepositional modifiers)

 

E35:  Talking about parks and gardens in New York City
(the passive mood of the verb)

 

E36:  Talking about the planetarium of New York City
(adjectives followed by prepositions; They are not used to walking)

 

E37:  Talking about shopping in New York City
(construction of reflexive verbs in compound tenses)

 

E38:  Talking about sports in New York City
(compound nouns/ sky diving)

 

E39:  Talking about transportation in New York City
(subjunctive after impersonal expressions/ It’s necessary that you arrive early.)

 

E40:  At the zoos in Central Park and the Bronx
(syntax of complex sentences; coordinating conjunctions)

 

READINGS

Introduction to Israel and the West Bank

Exploring the Holy Sites of Bethlehem and the West Bank

Exploring the Holy Sites of Galilee

Exploring the Holy Sites in and around Jerusalem

Exploring the Holy Sites in Acre

  • The Franciscan Church of St. John the Baptist
  • The Orthodox Church of St. George
  • St. Andrew’s Church

Exploring the Holy Sites in Haifa

  • Stella Maris Church

Exploring the Holy Sites in Tel Aviv

  • St. Andrew’s Church
  • St. Peter’s Church

More pilgrimages in the region

Visiting Vatican City and Rome

Online Resources