- •T ravelling
- •R ead this article. Ten phrases have been removed from the text.
- •Complete each gap with missing phrase from the box below
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Put in the right preposition
- •2. Write the expressions in the correct column.
- •3. Match the words with their definitions. Give the Russian equivalents.
- •Grammar reference
- •R eading
- •Read the adverts.
- •Communication
- •1. Complete the dialogue with the missed phrases in the list below. Taking a vacation.
- •3. You and your friend have won a competition and the prize is a holiday of your choice. Discuss the following issues and choose a holiday from the options below:
- •Holidays from a to z
- •Writing
- •1. Read the postcard and complete the sentences with:
- •2. Read the letter that a student has written to her friend. Her teacher has used symbols to show her the kind of mistakes she has made. Correct the mistakes.
- •Supplementary reading
- •1. Read the Text. The Road to Katmandu.
- •2. Read the following words and ideas about hitch-hiking. Put them into two groups: for and against.
- •3. Read these sentences. Think what words might fit into the gaps. Choose words from underneath to complete the sentences.
- •4. Look through the Text again and discuss with your partner the pros and cons of hitch-hiking, using phrases;
- •1. Read the Text and compare underlined words with their synonyms:
- •Question Time Can you answer these questions?
- •Airport Stories.
- •Best holiday
- •Ask your partner about his (her) last holiday. Make a dialogue.
- •Nightmare journey
- •San Francisco International Airport
- •At the hotel.
- •1. Match pairs of phrases
- •2. Write the expressions in the correct column.
- •Complete the second part of the dialogue with the words in the box.
- •2. A) Work in pairs. Read the telephone dialogues in Exercises 1 and 2 aloud.
- •Castle inn San Francisco ca sfo airport 12.6 miles / 20.3 km
- •British and Russian Cuisines. British cuisine.
- •2. Read the dialogues again. Underline the phrases that mean:
- •3. Who usually says these things? Write w (waiter) or с (customer).
- •1. Work in pairs. Read the dialogues from Exercise 2 aloud.
- •2. Work in pairs. Make up a dialogue using the information below. Try to use phrases from Exercise 2. When you finish, change roles.
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •American and British English
- •Expression List on the topic “Travelling”
- •Expression List on the topic “At the Hotel”
British and Russian Cuisines. British cuisine.
Breakfast in a British hotel is a large meal. It usually begins with a choice of fruit juice, porridge or cereal. Then comes the main course with a choice of bacon and egg, bacon and sausage, boiled egg, scrambled egg, or fish. Finally there is toast and marmalade. You may choose tea or coffee to drink, though in cheaper hotels you may be offered only tea. In more expensive hotels there is more choice at each stage.
Lunch in a simple hotel begins with soup, though in a more expensive one you usually have a choice of soup, fruit juice, or starters (snacks). For the main course there are three main choices: cold meat and salad, fish, or roast meat and two vegetables. Then there is a choice of sweets, such as hot apple tart, a hot milk pudding, cold fruit salad, or ice-cream. If you wish to finish the meal with coffee, you must pay for it as an extra.
At about five o'clock there is a very light meal called tea. This consists of a cup of tea and a cake.
Dinner in a hotel is very similar to lunch, except that there is usually more choice and it is nearly always dearer.
Russian Cuisine.
As for Russian cuisine, it is famous for exotic soups, cabbage shchi and solyanlca, which is made of assorted meats. Russians are great lovers of pelmeni, small Siberian meat pies boiled in broth, pies, pickles, and sauerkraut.
Of our folk soft drinks, kvass is the best known. It is made of brown bread or rye flour. If you add it to chopped-up meat and vegetables, you get okroshka, an exquisite cold soup.
Top restaurants recommend the guests pressed and red caviar, salmon, sturgeon in aspic, marinated herring, and so on.
There is a large variety of desserts. For dessert you can have apples baked with sugar, fruit and berry compotes. «No dinner without bread,» goes the Russian saying. As to rye bread, Russians eat more of it than any nation in the world — a peculiarity of the Russian diet.
As for me, I prefer “slow food” to fast food. My eating preferences are…
Assignments:
Compare British and Russian cuisine.
Speak about your eating preferences.
What are your favourite dishes?
COMMUNICATION
1. Two customers, Paul and Nina Martin, arrive at a restaurant. It's 8.30 p.m. Read the four dialogues (waiter=A, Paul=B, Nina=C). Fill in the gaps with the phrases in the box.
■ we'd like a ■ your table is ready ■ can I have ■ what name is it ■ Do you have ■ Would you like ■ Here's the menu ■ can I help you ■ so that's ■ I'm sorry, we're fully booked ■
1) A Hello, 1_______________________ ?
С Hi, yes,2_______________________________ table for two.
А 3__________________________ a reservation?
С No, we don't.
2) A 4 _______________ at the moment. But we have a cancellation at 9.00.
В At 9.00. Yes, that's fine.
A OK, 5______________________________ , please?
В Martin.
A 6 _____________smoking or non-smoking?
С Non-smoking, please.
3) A Would you like a drink while you're waiting?
В Yes, er...7_____________________ a beer, please?
A And for you?
С I'll have a sparkling mineral water.
A OK,8_________________________ a beer and a water.
4) A Excuse me,9_______________. This way, please ... Is this table all right for you? С This is fine. A 10____________, the specials are on the board.
В Thank you.