25. To board one/s plane (boat, ship), on board

To get on or into a ship, a train, an aircraft, a bus.

Please, board the plane immediately. On or in a ship or an aircraft. Have the passengers gone on board yet?

2. Read the words combinations, give their Russian equivalents

and memorize them

1) to go touring round St. Petersburg

2) to observe picturesque surrounding countryside

3) to realize how beautiful something is

4) to find something very impressive within the country

5) to learn the customs and traditions of the country

6) to set sail for Africa

7) to walk northwards into country, to go abroad

8) to watch wildlife around

9) to be beautifully kept

10) it sounds much of a holiday, that sounds sensible

11) to attract crowds of holiday-makers

12) museums are public property and factories are mostly state property

13) go on a journey

14) to be protected from frost and pollution

15) the ability to make sound judgments

16) a long journey by sea or in space

17) means of transportation

18) a fist-class sleeping (a second-class) carriage, a dining carriage

19) a left-luggage office, a booking office, an inquiry office

20) to be worth visiting

21) to hire a porter

22) to address oneself to an inquiry office

23) to be at the heart of the culture

24) to buy a guide-book

25) to present souvenirs

26) to sail off, to take off, to get off a bus, a plane, a train, get on a bus, a coach, a plane

27) weight, overweight, to weight a kilogram (a pound, a ton)

28) to go through the customs

29) to collide (with smth.)

30) typical of, getting into the habit of

3 Read the following sentences with new words

and put all kinds of questions to them

1) On a warm summer day Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parker and their elder son Robert went to the country for a picnic lunch.

2) Some hours had passed before they decided to sit down on the green grass to have a bite (to have a second opportunity to do something).

3) The sun was shining brightly in a cloudless sky

4) Mrs. Parker had hardly spread the tablecloth when a nasty-looking cloud came up behind them.

5) It looked like rain and they had to head for the barn, which was not far away.

6) They had scarcely entered the barn when it began to pour.

7) No sooner had some ten minutes passed than it stopped raining and the sun appeared again.

8) Mr. Black began talking on the subjects of the weather.

9) It was dinner-time, and he went to the dining-car (carriage) to have something to eat.

10) When he arrived at the railway station he at once asked the porter to show him the way to the nearest post – office.

4 Insert the suitable word from the active vocabulary.

To arrive at; left his luggage; hiking; the cloak / check room; cargo/burden; to arrive in; the suitcase and the valise; at leisure; registered; a round trip; was bored to death.

1. Once a tourist ................ Paris.

2. He .............. the railway station.

3. He .............. went to the hotel, .............. there and went for a walk.

4. You had a good time during your tour but as for me I…… .

5. I think (find) ............. is the best way to see the country.

6. Take my baggage, please, to .................. .

7. Shall I put …….and ……… on the rack myself or would you do this yourself?

8. Put your ……../ …….. here, please.

9. You may pay for the ………. luggage upon receipt

10. Please, give me ………. to Berlin.