- •1 Study the following words and word combinations and find their Russian equivalents.
- •2 Write down all the places that people can stay in on holiday. (Think of as many different types of holiday as possible!) Have you ever been on any of the following types of holiday?
- •3 Paraphrase the following quotations. Which do you agree with? Why? Discuss them in pairs.
- •4 What do you like to do in your spare time? Use phrases from the language box to discuss in pairs, as in the example.
- •5 Build Up Your Word Power
- •6 Underline the correct word in the sentences.
- •7 Discuss your weekend plans with your partner. You can use the phrases from the boxes. Tick (√) the boxes to form the phrases. Can you think of one more phrase to go under each heading?
- •8 Underline the word that best completes each sentence. To what pastime is each group of words related? Can you add one more word?
- •10 Replace the underlined words and expressions with one of the fixed phrases below. Then, in pairs, use the fixed phrases to make up sentences of your own.
- •1 Read the text, paying attention to the words and word-combination underlined; use them in your own letter describing your holiday at the seaside.
- •2.1 An ideal holiday
- •2.2 Answer the questions:
- •2.3 An ideal holiday
- •2.4 Answer the questions
- •2.5 Choose the right answer.
- •3 Compare the three ways of spending one’s holiday. Agree or disagree with the statements.
- •5 Why do people take holidays? The usual reason given is ‘rest and relaxation’. How many other reasons can you think of? How restful and relaxing are holidays really?
- •6 Read the following text and find out:
- •Give us a break from holidays
- •6.1 Without looking back at the text yet, say whether the following statements are True or False. Give reasons for your answers.
- •6.2 Answer the questions.
- •7 Work with your partner.
- •A deserted island
- •Part III holidays in britain
- •1 Read the essays about the life in contemporary Britain seen through the eyes of the British people. At the seaside
- •Holidays
- •Hitch-hiking
- •The weather
- •Sir Charles goes on a bird-watching holiday
- •2 Where to go in Britain England
- •Scotland
- •Group discussion. Read the following pieces of information decide whether the same is true for our country. British roads
- •Prince swaps sympathy for tea at £25-a-night b&b
- •1.1 Find the meaning of the following words and phrases in an English-English dictionary and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •1.2 Answer the questions.
- •1.3 Explain the usage of the word would in the sentences in bold style, state its function and make up ten sentences of your own on the same patterns.
- •1.4 Translate the sentences into English using the words and word combinations from the article.
- •2 Read and discuss the article. Use the words and phrases in bold type while rendering it. Sitting pretty at holiday time
- •2.1 Explain the usage of the ing-forms in the sentence in bold style, state their function and make up ten sentences of your own on the same pattern.
- •Holidays
- •Holidays in the usa
- •Ye olde britain
- •Для тех, кто ищет приключений
- •Запах памяти
6.1 Without looking back at the text yet, say whether the following statements are True or False. Give reasons for your answers.
a Psychologists have proved scientifically that holidays are stressful experiences.
b Professor Kerry Cooper has had personal experience of a stressful holiday.
c A change of routine is harmful to the health.
d People need longer than two weeks in order to relax properly,
e People always tend to say they’ve enjoyed their holiday.
f Family holidays are the least stressful.
g Those who had good holidays are better able to face work again.
h Holidays can lead people to ignore problems in their lives.
i The purpose of the research is to identity the people who need a holiday, and those who don't.
6.2 Answer the questions.
a How will it be possible to test the stressful effects of holidays?
b How does Professor Cooper feel after his holiday with his children?
c What is the difference between Type A and Type B people?
d Why can’t a Type A person relax during a two-week holiday?
e Why are people unwilling to admit that they've had a bad holiday?
f What kinds of problems can arise during family holidays?
Look at the way the following words or phrases are used in the text and suggest another word or words, which could be used instead, to give the same meaning. Match the words or phrases with one of the meanings given in Section B.
A. better off erupt
maintains debunk
unwind are … disorientated
bland drawbacks
kept at bay getting them down
B. relax reveal the truth about
disadvantages happier/in a better state
making them depressed gentle/unemotional
avoided are confused/lose their sense of direction
argues break out/explode
7 Work with your partner.
You are stranded on a deserted island in the Pacific. All you have is the swim-suit and sandals you are wearing. There is food and water on the island but nothing else. Here is a list of things you may find useful. Choose the eight most useful items and rank them in order of usefulness. Prove your choice.
A deserted island
A box of matches ointment for cuts and burns
A magnifying glass a saucepan
An axe a knife and fork
A bottle of whisky 20 metres of nylon rope
An atlas a blanket
Some metal knitting-needles a watch
A transistor radio with batteries a towel
A nylon tent a pencil and paper
A camera and five rolls of film a mirror
Part III holidays in britain
1 Read the essays about the life in contemporary Britain seen through the eyes of the British people. At the seaside
Although more and more people are going abroad for their holidays, a third of British holidaymakers still go for a traditional seaside holiday in Britain. It was the British who started the fashion for seaside holidays — not surprisingly, since nobody in Britain lives more than 120 kms from the sea. The trek to the sea began at the end of the eighteenth century, when fashionable London society followed the Prince Regent (later George IV) to Brighton, a small town fifty miles from London. The prince found the climate agreeable and built himself a summer pavilion there. Today Brighton is a popular place for holiday-makers and the pavilion is used as a museum, assembly room and conceit hall. Many Londoners go there for the day during the summer, and Brighton has been called "London by the sea".
Gwyn and Mary Williams have never been abroad. Most of their neighbours have been on package holidays to Spanish resorts and Mary would like to go to Spain next summer. It would cost more than a seaside holiday in Britain but not much more.
Gwyn is not so sure. He likes going to Brighton every year. They sit on the crowded, stony beach, sleep in the sun, listen to their transistor radio and occasionally have a swim in the sea. In the evenings they go to concerts of light music or funny shows, and they often spend an hour or two on the pier. Piers are a speciality of British seaside towns. They stretch out to sea, carrying on their iron legs restaurants, theatres, dance halls and other places of amusement. Gwyn spends hours putting coins in slot machines, hoping to win a prize, whilst Mary visits the fortune-teller or has her photograph taken wearing a hat with "Brighton" painted on it. On their way back to the hotel, they walk under the bright lights of the sea front eating fish and chips out of a newspaper.
Herbert Perkins, being a Northerner, does not like Brighton.
"It's just a suburb of London," he says. "Now take Blackpool! You've never seen anything like the lights of Blackpool! Blackpool's tough — and you know it's northern the moment your landlady says 'cum in!'"
Blackpool is on the Irish Sea, not far from Manchester. Holidaymakers go there from all over Britain, but especially from the north.
"There's plenty of money in Blackpool," says Herbert. "I've known Yorkshire miners spend a fortune in a week there."