5. Questions on the topic

1. How do you like to spend your summer vacations? Do you like to go to the South?

Many prefer to go to the beach. Doesn’t it annoy that the beaches are very crowded? What do you do on the beach not to get bored?

2. Have you ever spent a week-end in a country house? When and where was it? What time of the year? Were the people hospitable? How did they entertain you? How did you like it?

3. Many people are fond of traveling. Do you belong to them? Do you like to travel alone or with your friends? Do you take your camera with you? What places have you already been to?

4. What is your favourite recreation? Describe it in detail.

Jokes and fun

Read the stories

1. In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not person to do such thing is please not to read notice.

In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.

In a Belgrade hotel elevator: To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor.

Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.

In a Japanese hotel: You are invited to take advantage of the chamber maid.

Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: Ladies may have a fit upstairs.

In a Rhodes tailor shop: order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.

In a Rome laundry: Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.

In a Czech tourist agency: Take one of our horse-driven city tours – we guarantee no miscarriages.

In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send them in all directions.

In a Norwegian cocktail lounge: Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.

At a Budapest zoo: Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.

In the office of a Roman doctor: Specialist in women and other diseases from a car rental firm in Tokyo: When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.

Two signs from Majorcan shop entrance:

English well talking.

Here speeching American.

2. A traveler stopped at a historic hotel and requested the rates for a single room. « A room on the first floor is $100, on the second floor $80, and on the third floor $60,» replied the desk clerk. The traveler thought a bit, said thank you and turned to go. «Don’t you like our hotel?» asked the clerk. «Oh, it’s beautiful,» said the traveler. «It just isn’t tall enough.»

3. The Vacation In Florida

One cold day in the middle of winter, Mr. and Mrs. Ross decided to fly to Florida for a vacation.

Mrs. Ross packed their summer clothes very carefully the night before their departure, and the next morning they got early and drove directly to the airport.

While they were waiting at the check-in counter, Mr. Ross began to question his wife about the things she had packed.

«Did you remember my red bathing suit?» he asked.

«Of course,» she answered.

«You didn’t forget out tennis shoes, did you?» he asked.

«Of course not,» she replied. Suddenly there was a long silence.

«Murray, what’s wrong?» said Mrs. Ross. «You look worried».

«I’ll bet you didn’t bring the piano,» he replied.

«The piano?» she said. «Why on earth would I bring the piano?»

«Because,» he said sheepishly, «I left our plane tickets on top of it.»