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Christmas markets • Culture • Food • Travel
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Strasbourg is famous for its beautiful Christmas markets, historic streets, French and German influences, and delicious Alsatian food.
In this hub, you'll practise useful vocabulary from a Strasbourg travel experience and review important English tenses.
Vocabulary you'll practise:
deserves
hustle and bustle
checking out
sustainability
to top it all off
influences
kicking off
check it out
have a look
delicacies
egg pasta
mushrooms
cheese
savory
pass by
🎄 Exercise 1 — Match the Meaning
Choose the expression that best matches each definition.
1. Is worthy of something
2. Busy and noisy activity
3. Looking at or visiting something
4. Protecting nature and the future
5. Finally, as an extra good thing
Answers:
1. deserves
2. hustle and bustle
3. checking out
4. sustainability
5. to top it all off
1. deserves
2. hustle and bustle
3. checking out
4. sustainability
5. to top it all off
🥨 Exercise 2 — Strasbourg Vocabulary in Context
Complete each sentence with the best vocabulary expression.
1. We are ______ our Strasbourg tour at the oldest Christmas market.
2. Let's ______ that beautiful Christmas market.
3. It smells amazing. Let's go ______.
4. Strasbourg has many international ______ at its markets.
5. Spätzle is a kind of ______.
6. The dish was made with roasted ______.
7. The food was topped with local Alsatian ______.
8. The dish was crisp and ______ rather than sweet.
9. You can see beautiful decorations as you ______ the old streets.
10. There are many German ______ and traditions in Strasbourg.
Answers:
1. kicking off
2. check it out
3. have a look
4. delicacies
5. egg pasta
6. mushrooms
7. cheese
8. savory
9. pass by
10. influences
1. kicking off
2. check it out
3. have a look
4. delicacies
5. egg pasta
6. mushrooms
7. cheese
8. savory
9. pass by
10. influences
🇫🇷 Exercise 3 — Choose the Best Expression
Choose the expression that sounds most natural in each situation.
1. Strasbourg is beautiful. Do you think it ______ its title "Capital of Christmas"?
2. The Christmas market is full of people, music, lights and activity. It has a real ______.
3. We have visited the cathedral. Now we're ______ a sustainable Christmas market.
4. We've visited the markets, tried Alsatian food and seen the cathedral. ______, we'll visit a little Advent village.
5. "Let's go check it out!" means:
6. "Let's go have a look" means:
Answers:
1. deserves
2. hustle and bustle
3. checking out
4. To top it all off
5. Let's look at / visit it.
6. Let's look briefly.
1. deserves
2. hustle and bustle
3. checking out
4. To top it all off
5. Let's look at / visit it.
6. Let's look briefly.
⏳ Exercise 4 — Tenses in Strasbourg
Quick Review
Present Simple: facts, routines and things that are generally true.
Present Continuous: something happening now or around now.
Past Simple: completed actions in the past.
Future: plans, predictions or things that will happen.
Choose the correct form of the verb.
1. Strasbourg ______ thousands of visitors every Christmas.
2. Right now, we ______ through the Christmas market.
3. Yesterday, we ______ Spätzle for the first time.
4. Tomorrow, we ______ a sustainable market.
5. Strasbourg ______ many German influences.
6. Look! People ______ traditional food at the market.
7. Last Christmas, I ______ Strasbourg with my family.
8. I think you ______ the Christmas markets.
9. We usually ______ local delicacies when we travel.
10. This evening, we ______ the Advent village.
Answers:
1. attracts
2. are walking
3. tried
4. are visiting
5. has
6. are eating
7. visited
8. will love
9. try
10. are going to check out
1. attracts
2. are walking
3. tried
4. are visiting
5. has
6. are eating
7. visited
8. will love
9. try
10. are going to check out
🏆 Final Review Quiz
How much do you remember? Choose the best answer.
1. "This city deserves its title" means:
2. A busy Christmas market has a lot of:
3. "Let's check it out!" means:
4. Spätzle is a kind of:
5. Which word means "salty, not sweet"?
6. "To top it all off" is used when:
7. "We are checking out the market" is:
8. "We visited Strasbourg last year" is:
9. "We usually try local delicacies" describes:
10. Which sentence is correct?
Review Quiz Answers:
1. The city is worthy of the title.
2. hustle and bustle
3. Let's look at / visit it.
4. egg pasta
5. savory
6. adding a final good thing
7. Present Continuous
8. Past Simple
9. a routine / habit
10. Tomorrow, we are visiting the market.
1. The city is worthy of the title.
2. hustle and bustle
3. Let's look at / visit it.
4. egg pasta
5. savory
6. adding a final good thing
7. Present Continuous
8. Past Simple
9. a routine / habit
10. Tomorrow, we are visiting the market.
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