Try summarising each of the following the sentences by omitting unnecessary

details so that the content is more concise.

1 Our tour guide met us and welcomed us to Langkawi. He had come in the tour 10 After dinner, I went to watch TV with some of the other tour members in a
bus which was to take us to the hotel. cramped 15 by 20-foot room which was grandly called the lounge.

2 Actually, it was a school bus as the words Bas Sekolah could still be seen, 11 I did not sleep too well because the air conditioner broke down around
though the tour company had tried to paint it over. midnight and I had to pen the window.

3 It was not air-conditioned, so we were all suffering from the intense heat. 12 The mosquitoes, which always have a field day feeding on my blood back
home, attacked me in full force here.

4 After five kilometres, the bus which has been spluttering along, decided to give
up.
13 The next morning, our tour guide told us that the bus had been repaired, so we
set off for our first destination, Kampung Nasi Terbakar.

5 Our guide told us to get out, and we had to walk the remaining half a kilometer
on foot with our luggage.
14 It was a famous historical attraction but our tour guide had little to day about
it.

6 Our hopes sank as our hotel turned out to be more of a hostel.

15 He was similarly uninformative when we went to other tourist places.

7 The rooms were air-conditioned but they were tiny with no frills attached.

16 He only spoke one or two sentences in an annoying high-pitched voice.

8 To make matters worse, the programmed for the day was cancelled since the
bus was not running.
17 Our final destination was the beach but what a sorry sight it was. Rubbish was
strewn everywhere and it was impossible to swim, unless you wanted to battle
with the plastic bottles, cups and plates floating in the water.
9 Then we consoled ourselves that we would soon have a wonderful dinner but it
was a disaster. The fish and prawns were neither fresh nor delicious.