Writing

Ex. 1. Choose one of the following topics and develop each of them into a short piece of two paragraphs:

1. Travelling is a modern disease.

2. The purpose of travelling.

3. A change is as good as rest.

Ex. 2. Write a few paragraphs of the way you spent your last holiday. Mention its good and bad points. For example:

My last holiday was a disaster! The food was bad, the weather was bad, the hotel was being built, there was no water in the pool, I was lonely, etc. But the holiday was cheap. It was winter, it was a new resort, I went there alone, etc.

Role play

Ex. 1. Give a 3‑5 minute spontaneous talk on the topics:

1. Travelling and money problems.

2. Holidays and weather.

Ex. 2. Make up and dramatize the dialogue about your preparations for your journey. Don’t forget to do the following:

• Bring a few small, inexpensive gifts that are representative of your culture to share with new friends.

• Set aside the important documents you will carry on your person when you travel. Make a list of these for a last minute.

• Prepare a "carry‑on" travelling bag with a change of clothes and personal articles you may need, in case your luggage is temporarily misdirected during your journey.

• Label all luggage with your name and the name and address of your destination.

• Try to learn something about U.S. currency.

• Take some spending money to cover incidentals during your trip.

• Remind your friend not to leave the suitcases or handbags unattended. It is always the possibility of the thief.

Final Discussion

Ex. 1. Make a list of advantages and disadvantages of different means of travelling and speak about them.

By Train		By Air
advantages	disadvantages	advantages	disadvantages
1.	1.	1.	1.
By Road		By Boat
advantages	disadvantages	advantages	disadvantages
1.	1.	1.	1.
On Foot
advantages		disadvantages
1.		1.

Part 2. Hotels Text 1 Hotels

A hotel is a place where people can be accommodated for one night or more. They are provided with rooms, meals, entertainments and different personal services in return for payment.

Modern hotels are not just places where you go to sleep. Many social activities are centered around them. International conferences, meetings, negotiations and even sport competitions take place at hotels.

There are various grades of hotels from cheap boarding houses to very expensive luxury five‑star hotels. The size of a hotel makes a big difference: with more than 500–600 rooms it becomes very difficult to give personal service. That is why modern top‑class hotels are never very big.

Now hotels offer their guests a wide range of services which were unheard of several years ago. Hotel guests enjoy air‑conditioned rooms, express check‑in and check‑out, 24‑hour room‑service, overnight laundry with pressing service, and valet service. They can have their meals at restaurants and bars with superb cuisine. In many hotels guests can select a newspaper, order breakfast, book tickets and even check out using the room TV. Besides room telephones guests are provided with portable phones so that they can receive and make a call from anywhere in the hotel.

Nowadays business travel is becoming more and more important, and many of the hotel guests are businessmen. They do not care so much about their personal comforts but are very particular about the office facilities that can help them do their jobs. They are not satisfied any longer with the standard business conveniences like a telephone and a typewriter which hotels used to offer them. That is why most of the hotels are making alterations, adding new services and getting the latest technology to meet the needs of a business traveller and make life easier for him.

Many new quality hotels have round‑the‑clock business centres with conference halls and meeting rooms for smaller gatherings, as well as fully serviced private work areas out‑fitted with, high‑tech equipment. Such centres offer secretarial and interpretation services, telex and facsimile services, personal computers, copiers, word processors, laser printers, calculators, colour cable TV and reference libraries.

In addition to these services, other facilities include health clubs with pools, saunas, sporting facilities, fitness centres and chauffeured transportation to and from the airport. In fact, everything possible is done to make hotels perfect both for business and entertainment.