Listening (variant II) Listen to the tape and determine if the following statements are true or false.

	True		False
1. Holiday prices fell in May.
2. Three million holidays were sold half-price.
3. Last year tour operators sold 9.5 mln holidays.
4. This year more holidays will be sold.
5. Over a third of British families go on package holidays.
6. Travel agents only sold this year’s holidays to people
who hadn’t had a holiday.
7. Accommodation prices are rising faster than inflation.
8. Each of the big tour operators has 17 per cent of the

market.

(Variant II)

Task 1. Give definitions for:

a) entertainment;

b) front-desk employees;

bonus;

commission;

perks.

Task 2. Translate into English:

приобрести необходимый опыт;

1. на платной основе;

2. сопровождать группы;

3. отдых с питанием за свой счет;

4. туристическая поездка, спланированная по индивидуальному заказу.

Task 3. Choose an appropriate form of the verb in each sentence:

We’d better hurry up – it looks as if it is going to rain / will be raining.

You haven’t got a car. I’ll give / I’m giving you a lift if you like.

Don’t panic. I’ll have finished / I‘ll be finishing the report by Monday.

Daniel says he doesn’t attend / won’t be attending the meeting. He thinks it will be / is to be a waste of time.

I’m fed up with working here. I’m going to try / I will try to get a better job somewhere else.

Don’t disturb him. He smells / is smelling flowers in the garden.

He says he will look in / is looking in to see us before he will leave / leaves our town.

Jane stays / will stay at home until she will feel / feels better.

I’m not sure, we have met / had met before.

So far we didn’t have / haven’t had any trouble

Vocabulary Study (Variant II)

Task 1. Match the words with their definitions:

1. vehicle

2. parlour

3. witness

4. china

5. species

1. a person or a thing that can give evidence;

2. a room for receiving and entertaining guests;

3. a group of animals or plants that have certain permanent characteristics in common;

4. a fine white ware of clay baked by special process first used in China;

5. a means of carrying or conveying.

Task 2. Match the words in American English with their equivalents in British English:

1. apartment

2. candy

3. elevator

4. faucet

5. French fries

6. garbage

1. lift;

2. chips;

3. rubbish;

4. sweets;

5. tap;

6. flat.

Task 3. Choose the words in the box to complete the sentences.