Gateway to the world A2 Unit 4 Reading

Read the text quickly and match the questions and answers.

A GREEN VILLAGE IN THE AMAZON

Hello from Puerto Nariño, Colombia! Puerto Nariño is a really special, eco-friendly village in the Amazon rainforest. There are no cars or buses here so you have to walk. The streets are very clean and you have to pay if you leave litter. People use rainwater to wash, and there is no electricity after midnight. Recycling is important here, and people make things from old plastic bottles, for example.

It isn’t easy to get here. First, you have to get to the small city of Leticia. Usually, I like to travel by bus or by train but there aren’t any roads to Leticia. You have to travel by boat or by plane. I took a flight from the Colombian capital, Bogotá. Then you have to get a boat from Leticia to Puerto Nariño. There are three boats a day and it takes about two hours. It’s exciting travelling along the Amazon river, with Peru on the left and Colombia on the right.

In Puerto Nariño there aren’t lots of places to go sightseeing, but you can go on a really cool excursion to Tarapoto Lake. It’s about 10km from the village. You can see pink dolphins and it’s also a good place to swim. We went with a tour guide who showed us lots of birds and animals.

Puerto Nariño is a beautiful place with really friendly people. However, it’s very hot, there aren’t a lot of different activities, and it’s not the kind of place you go on a package holiday. But I love it!

Complete the sentences with these words.

boat • excursion • flight • package holiday • plane • sightseeing • tour guide • train

1 I don’t like rivers or the sea, so I never travel by ______      .

2 She always takes a lot of photos when she goes _______             .

3 He’s a really good ________            – he knows a lot and he tells funny stories!

4 If you’re travelling by _____       , go to the airport early so you are not late for your______        .

5 I don’t travel by ____       often because there isn’t a station in my town.

6 You can go on a_______                 if you don’t want to book everything yourself.

7 The________           to the lake takes about six hours and we travel there by bus

A GREEN VILLAGE IN THE AMAZON

Hello from Puerto Nariño, Colombia! Puerto Nariño is a really special, eco-friendly village in the Amazon rainforest. There are no cars or buses here so you have to walk. The streets are very clean and you have to pay if you leave litter. People use rainwater to wash, and there is no electricity after midnight. Recycling is important here, and people make things from old plastic bottles, for example.

It isn’t easy to get here. First, you have to get to the small city of Leticia. Usually, I like to travel by bus or by train but there aren’t any roads to Leticia. You have to travel by boat or by plane. I took a flight from the Colombian capital, Bogotá. Then you have to get a boat from Leticia to Puerto Nariño. There are three boats a day and it takes about two hours. It’s exciting travelling along the Amazon river, with Peru on the left and Colombia on the right.

In Puerto Nariño there aren’t lots of places to go sightseeing, but you can go on a really cool excursion to Tarapoto Lake. It’s about 10km from the village. You can see pink dolphins and it’s also a good place to swim. We went with a tour guide who showed us lots of birds and animals.

Puerto Nariño is a beautiful place with really friendly people. However, it’s very hot, there aren’t a lot of different activities, and it’s not the kind of place you go on a package holiday. But I love it!

Answer the following questions in your own words according to the information given in the text. Do not copy from the text.

How is Puerto Nariño different from other villages?