Brochure language

Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

deep green tropical rocky range desert

13 Experience the ……… valleys of Wales. Full board and lodging is included in the price.

14 If you want to escape from the city, Savaii is a ……… island with a difference.

15 The Alps are Europe’s greatest mountain ……… . You can ski there for nine months of the year.

16 Would you like to go ………sea diving in the Atlantic? Call us on 0089 27151.

17 Galleton Hotel has unbelievable views of Corsica’s ……… coastline.

18 Amazon Tours offer fantastic trips into the heart of Colombia’s ……… rainforest.

Vocabulary

Choose the best words to complete the sentences.

19 I love going / seeing / having abroad.

20 Sydney Opera House is Australia’s most famous experience / tour guide / landmark.

21 The world’s largest tropical jungle / wood / rainforest is the Amazon, South America.

22 For a good holiday, I like lying on a rock / sandy /sand beach.

23 Prague is one of Europe’s great sensation / historic / history capitals.

24 We had a truly forgetful / forgotten / unforgettable journey around Russia.

25 Rome is full of monuments and museums. It’s a great place to go / have / make sightseeing.

26 There are many pack / packing / package holidays to Thailand, South-east Asia’s number one holiday destination.

27 Sun, sea and sand make Majorca the perfect place to have fun / funny /enjoy on holiday.

28 If you want to see Egypt’s localized / local / home culture, go to the market, Khan El Khalili.

Hotel facilities. Match the words to make hotel facilities and services.

29) en suite a) dryer

30) 24-hour b) bathroom

31) quality c) furnishings

32) spacious d) telephone

33) hair e) service

34) direct-dial f) room service

35) satellite g) cleaning

36) porter h) rooms

37) dry i) TV

Grammar

Complete the text with the correct present perfect or past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

AIR TRAVEL BRINGS RAPID CHANGE

In the 1960s it (become) 38) ……… cheaper and faster to travel by air than by sea. Shipping companies (start) 39) ……… fly-cruises, offering to fly passengers to their ships at faraway ports. Older transatlantic liners (not / be) 40) ……… able to compete with jumbo jets. The original Queen Mary, for example, (go) 41) ……… out of service in 1967 and (end) 42) ……… her days as a hotel and museum ship in Long Beach, California.

Mass cruising

Since the early 1970s, tour operators and cruise lines in Europe (offer) 43) ……… cruises as a holiday experience. Since the seventies, cruises (operate) 44) ……… in all continents, and new, larger ships (enter) 45) ……… service in recent years. The industry (never / be) 46) ……… so successful and passengers (never / have) 47) ……… so much choice. Among the new cruise ships are Royal Caribbean International’s Voyager of the Seas and Cunard’s Queen Mary 2. A new generation of cruise ships (arrive) 48) ……….

Complete these sentences with if or whether.

49. ……… you come by yourself or with friends or family, Lisbon has plenty to offer you.

50. ……… you want to get a view when flying in, try to sit on the right of the plane.

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Topic ‘Travel agents’.