5. Translate from English into Ukrainian the following text: Camping is the ideal way of spending a holiday

There was a time when camping was considered to be a poor way of spending a holiday: OK for boy-scouts and hard-up students but hardly the thing for sophisticated and comfort-loving adults. The adults have at last discovered that the boy scouts have been on to a good thing all these years. If you go camping it no longer means that you will be bitten to death by mosquitoes; have to drink brackish coffee; suffocate or freeze in sleeping bag; hump huge weighs on your back. Camping has become the great pursuit of motorists the world over. All the discomforts have been miraculously whisked away.

For a modest outlay, you have a comfortable, insulated tent. For a not so modest outlay, you can have a holiday caravan with bedrooms, a living-room, a kitchen. The portable furniture is light and comfortable. What more could you want ?

No wonder the great rush is on. You see, camping has so much to offer. You enjoy absolute freedom. You have none of the headaches of advance hotel booking or driving round and round a city looking for a room. There are no cold hotel breakfast, no surly staff to tip. For a small sum you can enjoy comforts which few hotels can provide. Modern camp sites are well equipped with hot and running water and even shops and dance floors. Low-cost holidays make camping an attractive proposition. But above all you can simply get up and go. Conversely you can stay as long as you like. You are the boss !

And there is sheer fun of it – especially if you have a family. Moping around a stuffy hotel room wondering what they are going to give you for dinner is a tedious business. By comparison, it is so exiting to arrive at camp site, put up your tent and start getting a meal ready. You are active all the time and you are always close to nature. Everything is so nice and peaceful. Camping provides you with a real change from everyday life. You get up earlier, go to bed earlier, develop a hearty appetite. You have enormous opportunity to meet different people and to share your pleasures with them. People are so friendly when they are relaxed. For a few precious weeks in the year you really adopt a completely different way of life. And that’s the essence of true recreation and real enjoyment.

6. Answer the comprehension questions:

1. Has camping always been popular with adults ?

2. Did adults consider camping a good or poor way of spending a holiday ?

3. What sudden discovery did adults make about camping ?

4. Does camping always been having to put up with many discomforts ?

5. What facilities are provided for campers now?

6. Does camping have much to offer ?

7. Are there any comforts at modern camp sites ?

8. Why do people prefer a camp site to a hotel ?

9. What makes spending a night beside a clear stream so romantic ?

10. Camping provides with a real change, doesn’t it ?

11. What is the essence of true recreation and enjoyment ?

7. Phonetic drill. Transcribe and pronounce correctly.

Sophisticated, mosquito, suffocate, pursuit, miraculously, portable, surly, conversely, tedious, essence, headache.

8. What is the meaning of the following words and phrases as they are used in the text ?

Hard-up students Sophisticated To whisk away For a modest outlay Insulated tent Conversely To put up a tent

Surly To mope around To hump great weights Tedious To adopt a completely different way of life Essence

9. Find the following sentences in the text. Explain the words and word-combinations in italics:

… was considered a poor way of spending holidays;

…the boy scouts have been on a good thing

…it no longer means that …

…no surly staff to tip.

And there is sheer fun of it - …

…and start getting a meal ready.

…of true recreation and real enjoyment.

10. Give synonyms to the following words:

To discover, to suffocate, outlay, conversely, tremendous.

11. Form antonyms with the help of negative prefixes:

Comfort Sophisticated Modest

Comfortable Attractive Active

12. Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right:

1	To ramble	A	A way planned or followed from one place to another
2	Hardship	B	A place where people stay on holiday
3	Route	C	Go for a long walk in the countryside
4	To trek	D	Great difficulties, problems
5	Camp	E	Go on a long and difficult journey, especially on foot