Travelling

Travelling is very popular among students in Britain. They don’t have a lot of money, so it has to be cheap, but there are many ways of travelling at low cost.

The cheapest way to travel is hitchhiking, but this isn’t reliable and it can be dangerous, so it’s better to use normal public transport.

If you want to travel by train, you can get a student railcard. With this you can get train tickets at a discount. For international travel in Europe you can get an Interracial card.

If you want to travel to somewhere more exotic, you have to travel by air, but this isn’t as expensive as sounds. There are a lot of shops (called ‘bucket shops’) which sell cheap airline tickets to countries like the USA, Thailand and Australia. They advertise in magazines and newspapers. A lot of these tickets are standby tickets. This means that you haven’t got a reserved seat. You have to wait and see if the plane is full. So, you might have to spend a few days at the airport before you get on a flight.

Magazines often carry adverts for ‘overland’ tours especially to Africa and India, or Latin America. On these tours, you travel with a group in a mini-bus. It isn’t very comfortable and you have to share the cooking, but it’s a cheap way to see the parts of the world that most tourists never go to.

While British young people are travelling to Africa and the Far East, many young people from Australia and New Zealand travel to Britain. They get cheap airline tickets to London. Then they usually buy a used van and travel around Europe. The young travellers from Oz can be usually recognised because they often paint a kangaroo symbol somewhere on the van.

a) Answer the following questions briefly.

1. Which countries do people from your country travel to?

2. What cheap forms of transport are available?

b) Make up a plan of the text in the form of the questions of different types (not less than 5 questions).

c) Underline the sentence(s) in the passive voice.

IV ВАРІАНТ

1. Fill in the infinitive or the gerund and translate into Ukrainian/Russian:

1. Helen hopes ___________ (pass) the test this time.

2. Mary likes people __________ (be) on time.

3. Are you interested in __________ (study) foreign languages?

4. Our neighbours apologized for _________ (make) so much noise.

5. Shall I __________ (call) for you?

2. Fill in Future Simple, Present Continuous, Present Simple or construction to be going to and translate sentences into Ukrainian/Russian:

1. __________ (the film/begin) at 3.30 or 4.30?

2. Mary _____________ (give) a party next week. She has already invited most of her friends.

3. It’s Sarah’s birthday tomorrow. She __________ (give) a party. Her husband (probably/cook) something special for her.

4. I hope Janet __________ (help) you clean up this mess later.

5. Can you come on Monday evening? – Sorry, but I __________ (play) tennis with my friend.

3. Fill in the definite article where necessary:

1. …Portugal is in … west of … Europe.

2. I’d like to go to … China to see … Great Wall.

3. … Empire State Building was blown up on 11 September 2001.

4. You should go to … Science Museum. It’s very interesting.

5. This flight is carried out by … British Airways.

4. Put the verb into correct form of the passive voice and translate sentences into Ukrainian/Russian:

1. There’s no need to leave a tip. Service ___________ (include) in the bill.

2. When _____________ (Australia/discover)?

3. The story ______________ (never/translate) into Ukrainian.

4. The concert ______________ (just/postpone) because of the artist’s illness.

5. Make the following sentences passive not mentioning the doer where necessary. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian/Russian:

1. We will finish the work not later than on Friday.

2. Somebody has invited her to the party.

3. They cancelled all flights because of fog.

4. How do people learn languages?

6. Read and translate the following text: