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• If you are teaching a multilingual group in an English-speaking 
environment, you can ask students which are the most 
interesting places they have visited in that country. 
• Ask students to do the exercise. Ask students what words 
they associate with the country Norway. Ask them to give their 
reasons. For example, 
I associate skiing with Norway because 
I think the fi rst skiers were Norwegian
.
A
 Tourist Information
If you are teaching a monolingual group in their own country, 
ask students if they have been to the nearest Tourist Information 
Offi ce. What information is there about the town / city in English? 
Similarly, if you are teaching a multilingual group in an English-
speaking environment, you can discuss the Tourist Information 
Offi ce in the town / city where students are studying.
1
Ask students to do the exercise.
2
Students can do this exercise in pairs. They can either work 
together to write the sentences, or they can work on their 
own and then compare answers.
3
Ask students to do the exercise. Check answers.
4
You can do this exercise as a class.
5
Ask students to do the exercise, then ask students to use the 
word 
building
as a verb in a sentence, e.g. 
Those men are 
building a wall
. They can then give examples of the other 
nouns as verbs and the other verbs as nouns.
6–7
Students can do these exercises in pairs. Check answers.
Focus on … uncountable nouns
After students have done the exercises, ask them to name other 
uncountable nouns. You could set up a race. Students can work in 
pairs and write a list. Either the winning pair is the fi rst pair to write 
20 items on their list, or the winning pair is the pair with the most 
uncountable nouns on their list after a certain period of time.
8
Look at one or two other examples with the class. For 
example, 
We have all the brochures / you will need. 
Ask 
students to do the exercise. Check answers. Encourage 
students to read some of the other sentences from the leafl et 
and to pause at the most appropriate part of the sentence.
9
Ask students whether they would go to the Tourist 
Information Offi ce. Elicit why / why not. Ask students if they 
would get a Bergen card.
More activities
Ask students if they know of any sights in the Norwegian 
Capital, Oslo (which is in Unit 1). Famous attractions include 
the ski museum and jump tower, The Kon-Tiki museum, The 
Viking Ship museum, The Nobel Peace Center and the Munch 
museum. Students can look at the website www.visitoslo.com 
and fi nd out about one or more of these places.