Holiday destinations

Vienna, the capital of Austria, is a great place for a holiday. You can visit famous buildings like the State Opera House, the Schonbrunn Palace and St. Stephen’s Cathedral, which is over 850 years old. Or you can go shopping along Kartner Strasse and enjoy Vienna’s coffee houses, cake shops, cafés and street musicians. You can also travel along the River Danube by boat or go for a walk in the Rathauspark, one of the many beautiful parks in the city. Vienna is also the home of classical music. Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert all lived there, and there are performances of their symphonies every evening, so come and stay for a weekend or a month – there’s always lots to do in Vienna!

Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

T F1.- Vienna is the capital of Austria.2.- St. Stephen’s Cathedral is a new building.3.- You can drink coffee on Kartner Strasse.4.- You can go shopping on Rathauspark.

The Turkish city of Istanbul is a wonderful place to visit. In the old part of the city there are lots of interesting buildings for tourists to see, like the 500-year-old Topkapi Palace. There are also two beautiful mosques very near the Palace: the Santa Sophia and the famous Blue Mosque.

The Blue Mosque

Most visitors to Istanbul go shopping in the city’s biggest market, called the “Grand Bazaar”. There are more than four thousand shops there, and you can buy books, food, clothes, flowers and carpets. The food in

Istanbul is great, and the city has some fantastic fish restaurants. So come and visit Istanbul – the city where Asia meets Europe.

T F5.- The Blue Mosque is in the old part of Istanbul.6.- There are 400 shops in the Grand Bazaar.7.- There are some good fish restaurants in Istanbul.