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

1	a boarding	A	hotel
2	a five-star	B	time
3	a slack	C	beach
4	a sandy	D	arcade
5	an amuse­ment	E	husband
6	to be green	F	holiday
7	a henpecked	G	with envy
8	a quiet	H	water-skiing
9	to enjoy	I	well
10	to do	J	house

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

Peter Burch went into a London travel 1) _____. He went up to the counter while his wife sat down at a low table and started looking at the seaside holiday guides. It was a 2) _____ time so Peter had only three minutes to wait before a clerk was available to deal with his inquiries.

Peter: Good morning! My wife and I are from Canada. We are 3) _____ forward to having one week free in En­gland for a 4)_____ rest.

No sightseeing, no shopping, not even a cinema: just a relaxation and 5)_____. Golf and perhaps some salmon or trout fishing for me, and my wife 6)_____ water-skiing, though that might not be available. You see, we'd like a really small quiet place with nearly empty beaches while on holiday. Plenty of sunshine, if that can be ordered. Oh, and we'd like to stay in a small 7) _____ house or perhaps on an isolated farm. Can you suggest a good place to go to?

Clerk: You'll find the quietest seaside places in Scotland or Ireland.

Peter: They'd hardly do. I think. We'd like a place not more than 70 miles from London  just in case we want to run up for a day or two to look around. How about this place called Brighton? Is there a good sandy 8) _____?

Clerk: I'm afraid not. It's a 9) _____ beach. And Brighton is a big very lively 10) _____ resort. Hardly for quiet holiday day. Perhaps a small hotel in a country village. We could probably fix up something like that for you. But it might be a job to arrange anything else.

Peter: That should do very well. Provided it's a quiet area off the 11) _____ track and away from the crowds. (At that moment Mrs. Burch joined her husband at the counter)

Mrs. Burch: Do you know what I've been thinking? You re­member the Joneses were in England last year?

Peter: That's something I'll never be allowed to forget. They've never stopped talking about it ever since.

Mrs. Burch: Now, they were touring and they spent a night in a place called Blackpool. They had a room in a 12) _____ hotel on the front and said that everything was quite marvellous. Just imagine their faces when we go back and say that we've spent a week there!

Peter: That's all very well, but from what they said it didn't sound a particularly quiet place.

Clerk: It isn't, sir. It's a very popular resort, packed with peo­ple at this time of year. It's got two piers with 13) _____ arcades, hundreds of hotels and boarding 14) _____ and thousands of visitors. It's over 200 miles from London, and I've heard they've been having awful wet weather all this season.

Mrs. Burch: Oh, I expect there are lots of cinemas we could go to if it's wet. And plenty of shops to look around. You can do all the fishing you want at home. This could be fun, Peter. A swimming pool and concert hall, a wonderful dance floor, hairdressers, sunbathing and gift 15) _____. Oh, Peter, wait until we tell the Joneses. They'll be 16) _____ with envy.

Peter: I suppose you'll get your own way. So much for a qui­et holiday! Why did I bother to bring my fishing rod? (As the clerk turns away he shrugs his shoulders slightly and whispers to one of his colleagues)

Clerk: You do meet some funny types in this game!