3. Build the words and word-combinations by matching their constituent parts.

1	to reach	A	travel
2	an overland	B	area
3	on the other	C	transport
4	global	D	one’s destination
5	discount	E	truck
6	public	F	hand
7	urban	G	cards
8	adventure	H	warming

4. Fill in the blanks with the words from your active vocabulary.

1. The New York City _____ is the largest in the world and the only one which operates 24 hours a day. It consists of 26 lines and 468 stations; the total length of the system is 842 miles (1355km).

2. The freedom to roam nourished our _____ spirit.

3. I appreciate the long day drives out in the desert, maybe a short hike, to get away from the city for awhile. I also stay on the road rather than _____ in an ATV or motorcycle.

4. The video manual allows the viewer to _____ sections he’s not interested in.

5. Too often ______ are confused to be standards of care, they are not, nor are they to be viewed as prescriptive.

6. It's easy to _____ town with public transportation.

7. Sightseeing by _____ is an activity that allows the rider to discover the environmental and cultural wealth of a region in the most pleasant and ecological manner.

8. _____ maintenance workers lay, maintain and repair tracks.

9. These towns are many miles _____.

10. The Berlenga Islands are an hour's journey by _____ from Peniche.

5. Make the sentences shorter by changing the constructions written in italics into the appropriate words from your active vocabulary. If necessary, change the word-order in some of the sentences.

1. If you haven't driven this stretch of the main road connecting major cities before, I suggest you buy a road map to help you navigate yourself around town.

2. Sharing a family means of transport can reduce your fuel costs dramatically.

3. Riding single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicles has always been part of my life.

4. They left the ship and travelled a long distance over land to Coolgardie.

5. A cruise ship carrying more than 100 tourists, most of them from Germany, collided Wednesday with a ship carrying cargo, goods, and materials in a Danube River channel near the capital of Slovakia, officials said.

6. The branches are the different practices that together as a whole make up medicine available as another possibility or choice.

7. Let's move the furniture from place to place and see how this room looks.

6. Create your own conversation connected with a funny or awkward situation based on cross-cultural peculiarities on the analogy of the given model. Role-play the conversation in pairs.

Model:

 Oh, I'm tired with the Customs formalities. Let's take a short rest now. Shall we sit here?  It's a good idea and the armchairs look cozy. Let's enjoy fresh air.

 Certainly. Well, that's what La Manche looks like.

 You mean the English Channel.

 Why? What's the difference?

 Oh, no difference between ourselves, because you are Polish and I'm German, but when you speak to a Frenchman, call it La Manche. On the other hand, British people prefer the English Channel.

 Then I think it should be called the British Channel, shouldn't it?

 That 's history, traditions and all that.

 Thanks a lot, because it's very good to know the “likes and dislikes” of the country you are going to visit for the first time.