Hurray for Honolulu! (B1)

A – Before you startAnswer the questions with a partner.1. What do you know about Hawaii? (Where is it? What is it famous for? What’s the capital?) 2. Can you fill in the missing information below without looking at the text?a) The name of the most famous Hawaiian beach area: ____________b) A world-famous American politician who was born in Honolulu: ____________c) The year in which Hawaii became a state of the USA: ____________d) The name of the naval base which was attacked in 1941, bringing the USA intoWorld War II: ____________

B – Read and answerRead the main article and answer the questions.1. What does the article say about the inhabitants of Honolulu?2. What was kapu?3. Who founded the kingdom of Hawaii? When?4. When was the kapu system abandoned?5. How did Hawaiians benefit from the arrival of the missionaries?6. What led to the abolition of the monarchy?7. What is the Iolani Palace and why is it unique?8. What is Diamond Head and why is it worth visiting?

C – Listen and answer (Optional)N.B. This interview is graded as C1, so don’t be discouraged if you find it difficult. Try to understand the main points.Read these statements. Then listen to the interview with Tom Woods, without reading, and write T (true) or F (false).1. After the arrival of the missionaries, Hawaii had a better health system than many American states.2. By 1853, around half the population of Hawaii could read and write.3. Tom Woods says that in general today the missionaries are remembered for the good things they did.4. The missionaries discouraged hula dancing.5. They thought it led people to commit sins.6. The missionaries encouraged surfing.

D – Listen, read and check your answersListen to the interview while reading the text.(If you did Exercise C, check your answers while reading.)

E – Learn it! Use it!Complete these sentences with words from the glossary. (You may have to adapt the expression in some way; e.g. change from plural to singular.)1. Peter did very ________ in his German test last week.2. Those charities do a lot of ________ in places like Africa and South America.3. I never eat in burger bars. The food is ________.4. This post office is busy on Mondays. There’s always a ________ at the counter.5. The story of Robin Hood is just a legend, although there are traces of an outlaw by that name in some _______ _______.6. We couldn’t get the large sofa up to the study on the first floor because the staircase was much too ________.

F – Ready for PET? (Paper 1, Writing: Part 1)Complete the second sentence with 1 to 3 words so that it means the same as the first. (They are constructions used in the article.)1. As a rule, visitors to Hawaii arrive at Honolulu International Airport.Visitors to Hawaii ________________ at Honolulu International Airport.2. Honolulu is not just beaches and boutique shops.There is much ________________ to Honolulu than beaches and boutique shops.3. In the Hawaiian capital there are a lot of cultural attractions and beautiful scenery.The Hawaiian capital is ________________ to a lot of cultural attractions and beautiful scenery.4. Barack Obama was born in Honolulu.Honolulu is ________________ Barack Obama.5. There are far fewer Native Hawaiians than other nationalities here.Hawaiians are very much in ________________ here.6. There isn’t much traffic downtown.There is ________________.7. There are mountains and ocean all around the city.The city is ________________ mountains and ocean.8. Diamond Head is ten kilometres from downtown.Diamond Head is a ________________ journey from downtown.

G – Write about itWrite about a popular beach resort in your country.1. Where is it?2. What are the beaches like?3. What other attractions does it have?4. When did it become popular?5. Are any famous people associated with it?

AnswersA – Before you read2. a) Waikiki b) Barack Obama c) 1959 d) Pearl HarbourB – Read and answer1. The population is almost 1 million but only 8.5 per cent of them are Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. 2. A traditional system that included elements of law, religion and social order. 3. King Kamehameha the Great in 1810. 4. In 1819. 5. They gained rights, medical care, a written constitution, an alphabet and written records. 6. The arrival of Christianity, Euro-Americans and commerce. 7. It used to be the official residence of the Hawaiian monarchy. It’s unique because it’s the only royal palace on American soil. 8. It’s an ancient volcanic crater. It’s worth visiting because the views from the top are breathtaking.D – Listen, read and check your answers1. T 2. F – Three quarters (75%) could read and write. 3. F – He says there’s the common notion that the missionaries stole the Hawaiians’ land or that they got rich at the expense of the Hawaiians. 4. T 5. T 6. F – They discouraged surfing because, like hula dancing, it was done by men and women together.E – Learn it! Use it! 1. well 2. good 3. unhealthy 4. queue 5. written records 6. narrowF – Ready for PET?1. generally/usually arrive 2. more 3. home 4. the birthplace of 5. the minority 6. little traffic downtown 7. surrounded by 8. ten-kilometre