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holiday cottage (Br), vacation rental (Am) – a house or apartment that you rent
for a holiday.
holiday home – a house that someone owns, where they go for holidays.
hotel – three-star/ four-star/ five-star etc. a mark used in a system for showing
the quality of a hotel.
inn – a small hotel or pub, especially an old one in the countryside.
motel – a hotel for people who are travelling by car, where you can park your car
outside your room.
sanatorium – (old-fashioned) a place like a hospital where people who have a
lasting illness or who are getting better after an illness are treated and have a rest.
timeshare – a holiday home that you buy with other people so that you can each
spend a period of time there every year.
villa – a house, especially in France, Italy, or Spain, that you use or rent for a
holiday.
youth hostel – a place where people, especially young people who are travelling,
can stay very cheaply for a short time.
7. What type of accommodation would you prefer being on holiday? Mind
the range of facilities and equipment this or that type of accommodation can
offer you.
8. Look at the advertisements for the Golden Beach Campsite and Sunnyside
Self-catering Apartments. Study the information which is given about them
(location, outdoor facilities, indoor facilities, entertainment, comfort, service,
etc.). Think over the amenities of other types of accommodation for
holidays.
THE GOLDEN BEACH CAMPSITE
Sea, Sun & Lots of Fun!
5 miles from Brighton
clean, attractive campsite
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100s of caravans to rent
100s of tent sites available
caravans – for up to 6 people, modern kitchen, shower, toilet, TV,
electricity, hot & cold running water
heated bathrooms on the campsite
Never a dull moment!
heated outdoor swimming pool
games room – play pool/darts/table tennis
excellent children’s play area
Golden Beach Restaurant (breakfast/lunch/dinner)
Dunes Bar
Local outdoor activities
hiking, horse riding, cycling
The ideal place for a memorable family holiday!
Open from the beginning of May to the end of September.
Please book in advance. Ask campsite staff for current prices.
Tel.: (0273) 350729
(V. Evans, J. Dooley. Enterprise 2. Elementary. Coursebook. – United
Kingdom, Newbury: Express Publishing, 2008).
SUNNYSIDE SELF-CATERING APARTMENTS
Are you looking for sandy beaches, sparkling waters and ….…. (clear)
skies without the bother of ………(expensive) hotels or ……. (rough)
campsites? If so, you will love the Sunnyside Self-catering Apartments near the
town of Torremolinos. The cosy apartments are situated on the …… (quiet)
seafront on the outskirts of this delightful resort and are fully-equipped with
………(new) cooking and washing facilities. Make this summer one to
remember – come over to the Sunnyside.
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(V. Evans, J. Dooley. Enterprise 4. Intermediate. Coursebook. – United
Kingdom, Newbury: Express Publishing, 2008).
Substitute the words in brackets with the following words: peaceful,
overpriced, cloudless, modern, uncomfortable.
9. Discuss your preferences of travelling by car, train or plane. Substantiate
your choice
means of travelling:
by road/car/coach/bike/bus
by railway/train/express/electric train
by air/plane/helicopter
by sea/ship/boat/ferry
by underground/tube/metro
hitchhiking
on foot
on horseback
Sea or air
- Are you looking forward to your trip to Canada, Julie?
- I can’t wait to see Canada, Susan. But I’m scared stiff of the journey. My
husband insists on flying, but I want to sail. Planes make me nervous.
- There’s nothing to be frightened of. How many planes fly across the Atlantic
every day?
- I’ve no idea. Hundreds I suppose.
- And how often do you hear of a crash?... Once or twice a year?
- Yes, but aeroplanes fly so high and fast that once is enough.
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- Look, there are more road casualties per day than air deaths per year. Air
transport is really safe compared with road transport.
- I’d still prefer to go by sea. Ships may not travel fast but at least you can relax.
I’d love a trip on a luxury liner like the Queen Elizabeth II.
- It’s fine if you are a good sailor, but have you ever travelled far in a rough sea?
- No. I’ve only been in a boat once. I sailed down the River Thames on a
sightseeing tour … But in any case I’d rather be sea-sick than dead.
(A.C. Gimson. Intermediate English Course. – University College London:
ALVA Publishing House, 2001).
10. Complete the table
car bicycle train motorbike plane bus
get into/
get out of
get on/
get off
drive
ride
catch/
miss
11. Discuss with your friend your preferences in the ways of spending
holidays. Idea for ways of making holidays are given in the essential
vocabulary of unit 3. Try to persuade the partner speaking about the positive
sides of the types/type of holidays you prefer. Take into consideration such
criteria as possible places (countries, cities), weather details, clothes required for
holiday, activities you do, price of holiday, accommodation you stay, facilities
you use, sights you do, type of transport etc. When you recommend, use the
expressions from ex. 13, Unit 2 and the like.
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Reading
12. Compare your ideal way of spending a holiday with the story below.
Maybe it will give you some food for thought.
Camping is the ideal way of spending a holiday
There was a time when camping was considered to be a poor way of
spending a holiday: OK for boy scouts and hard-up students, but hardly the thing
for sophisticated, comfort-loving adults. If you go camping, it no longer means
that you will be bitten to death by mosquitoes; have to drink brackish coffee; live
on corned beef; suffocate or freeze in a sleeping bag; hump gargantuan weights
on your back. Camping has become the great pursuit of motorists the world over.
All the discomforts associated with it have been miraculously whisked away.
For a modest outlay, you can have a comfortable, insulated tent. For a notso-modest outlay, you can have an elaborate affair which resembles a portable
bungalow, complete with three bedrooms, a living-room, a kitchen and a porch.
The portable furniture is light and comfortable; the gas stove brews excellent
coffee or grills a tender steak; the refrigerator keeps the beer and ice-cream cold;
and as for a good night’s rest, well, you literally sleep on air. What more could
you want?
You see, camping has so much to offer. You enjoy absolute freedom. You
have none of the headaches of advance hotel booking or driving round and round
a city at midnight looking for a room. There are no cold hotel breakfasts, no
surly staff to tip. For a ludicrously small sum, you can enjoy comforts which few
hotels could provide. Modern camping sites are well equipped with hot and cold
running water and even shops and dance-floors! Low-cost holidays make
camping an attractive proposition. But above all, you enjoy tremendous mobility.
If you don’t like a place, or if it is too crowded, you can simply get up and go.
Conversely, you can stay as long as you like. You’re the boss.
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And then there’s the sheer fun of it – especially if you have a family.
Moping around a stuffy hotel room wondering what they are going to give you
for dinner is a tedious business. By comparison, it’s so exciting to arrive at a
camp site, put up your tent and start getting a meal ready. You are active all the
time and you are always close to nature. Imagine yourself beside some clear
stream with mountains in the background. Night is falling, everything is peaceful
– except for the delightful sound of chops sizzling in the pan! Camping provides
you with a real change from everyday living. You get up earlier, go to bed
earlier, develop a healthy appetite. How remote the strained world of hotels
seems when you are camping! For a few precious weeks in a year, you really
adopt a completely different way of life. And that’s the essence of true
recreation and real enjoyment.
(http://studopedia.org/1-57015.html)
13. Which of the people describing themselves below are travellers, and
which are tourists?
1. I always go on all-inclusive package holidays, and stay in luxurious
resorts. I prefer to book everything in advance.
2. I’m very adventurous – a bit of an explorer really – I like to find my own
way around new and unusual places. I like to get off the beaten track.
3. I love backpacking around the world, travelling on a shoestring, staying in
budget accommodation and meeting fellow globetrotters.
So, who you are? Explain in English the italicized expressions.
Exercises on the topic
14. Complete the definitions using the following words: cruise, trip, tour,
journey, travel.
1) … is an act of travelling from one place to another .
2) … is a journey during which you visit many places.
3) … is a journey during which you go to some place and return.
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4) … is a journey to different places, usually over long distances.
5) … is a sailing to and fro for pleasure or exploration.
15. Correct the mistake in each sentence.
1) I’ve got to go on a business journey next weekend.
2) The travel to New York was long and tiring.
3) Trip makes you more sensitive to other cultures.
16. Which probably takes the longest?
1. a boat trip, a channel crossing, a voyage, a cruise
2. a stroll, a trek, a hike, a walk
3. an excursion, an expedition, a journey, a trip
4. strolling, striding, dawdling, jogging
5. a speedboat, a narrow boat, a ferry, a hovercraft
6. going as the crow flies, taking the scenic rout, taking a short cut
17. Give English equivalents to the word-combinations.
Планировать отпуск; уехать в отпуск; в отпуске/ на каникулах; взять
месячный отпуск; дать себе отпуск от домашней работы; организованный
отдых; официальный нерабочий день (установленный законом); отпуск,
проведённый на берегу моря; идеальное место отдыха; купить
спортинвентарь; предвкушать приближающиеся каникулы; выбрать
маршрут; хорошо загореть; понежиться на солнце; сменить обстановку и
убежать от привычной жизни; испытать удовольствие от уединения.
18. Which of the following would you do in a place you’ve never been to
before? Why? Continue the list of possible activities.
visit the museums; go sightseeing; buy souvenirs; taste local food; stay in an
expensive hotel.
Listening comprehension
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19. Listen to the person who speaks about his trip to Cairo. Name and
comment on the sights he has already done and say what sights he hasn’t
done yet. Mind the vocabulary: Abdullah, the Khan al-Khalili bazaar, Giza,
couscous, falafel, Luxor.
Speaking
20. Describe an interesting journey that you have made in detail:
a. Where did you go? When? Why?
b. Describe each step of the journey in detail!
c. What did you see? What interesting experiences did you have?
d. What was the weather like?
21. Which two places you would be most interested in visiting. Explain why.
Thailand
Each day you cycle anything from 10 to 60 miles while your luggage is
transported by van. The Thailand trip costs about 800 pounds for nine days,
including meals, good accommodation, elephant-riding and foot treks, but
excluding airfares.
Greenland
For a tough and exciting challenge, try hiking along the mountainous east coast
of Greenland. Most people walk in one direction, following tracks across the
tundra and staying overnight in huts, then flying back by helicopter.
Australia
On walkabout safaris in the Kakadu National Park you can learn how the
Aborigines live off the land and see their 20.000-year-old rock paintings. Even
more famously, Kakadu is the place to see crocodiles, some of which grow up to
9 m. long.
Peru
In Peru you can encounter almost every climate in the world. It has a desert
coastline, fertile valleys and a vast area of tropical rainforest. As well as this,
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there are glaciers and snowy mountain peaks that rise to over 6700 metres in the
Andes. Besides the natural beauty, the country is best known for a man-made
sight: Machu Picchu – the Lost City of the Incas – high up in the Andes it is
entirely hidden from valley below.
Algeria
Trek through the Saharan wilderness on a camel accompanied by a blue-robed
guides deep into the heart of nowhere. You will discover a world of silent beauty
and infinite horizons. Holidays on the beach will never be the same again.
(Acklam Richard, Sally Burgess. First Certificate Gold: Exam Maximiser. –
United Kingdom, Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd, Longman, 2008).
Creative writing
22. Write an advertisement describing a holiday place for a travel’s
brochure (use the examples from exercise 21).
23. Write a letter to your friend describing your stay at a holiday resort.
Tip. When writing a letter describing your stay at a holiday resort, you should
talk about the place (where it is, what it is like, when you arrived there), the
accommodation where you are staying, the weather, the sights you have visited,
the activities you’ve been doing, the food, any good or bad experiences you have
had and your impressions, further plans. Organize your thoughts in paragraphs
and be careful to use the correct tenses.
A small example.
Dear Tim
Hi! I’m on holiday in Crete. I’m staying at a marvellous campsite by the
sea. The weather is sunny and sticky here.
I’ve seen the incredible Minoan Palace at the ancient city of Knossos. Last
week I visited the Archeological Museum. I have been exploring all the gorgeous
sandy beaches in the area. Yesterday while I was scuba-diving, I found an
amazing underwater cave.
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I have been eating a lot of traditional food. I’ve even tried snails. Crete is a
f) There are probably roadworks
wonderful island. I’m having so much fun!
Love,
Bob
Listening comprehension
24. Listen to three people complaining about their holidays which they spent
in 1) Sunnyside Self-catering Apartments, 2) the Chester Hotel, 3) Kingsbrooke
campsite. What are their basic complains?
25. Have you ever had an unpleasant holiday experience? (e.g. awful food,
rude unfriendly staff, dirty sheets, no hot water, shop understocked etc.).
Revision tasks
1. Match the two halves of the following conversation.
1. A return to Manchester, please. a) Look, I’m really sorry, but I had it a
minute ago.
2. I can’t believe it. We’ve been stuck
in this traffic jam for hours!
b) Oh, well…why don’t we go and
have a look round the duty free shop?
3. Tickets, please. c) And did you ever have dinner with
the captain?
4. The 19.30 Los Angeles flight will be
d) Will you be coming back today?
delayed by one hour due to poor
weather conditions.
5. We generally got up early and went
for a walk round the deck before
breakfast.
e) Can you wait for a second because I
think there’s a petrol station just a bit
further on.
6. Can you stop at the next lay-by? I
think there’s something wrong with my
ahead.
seatbelt.
2. Work with the vocabulary to brush it up in your memory.
Fill in the table with the words from all the exercises on the topic “Holidays”.
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