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1)Where is the Disneyland Resort Paris located?

2)What are the ways to save money on a trip to the Disneyland Resort Paris?

3)What is the holder of the Annual Passport Fantasia entitled to?

4)What privileges does VISA offer?

5)When do partners and sponsors of the Disneyland Resort Paris make special offers?

6)What is the only way to get the hands on the special offers from partners and sponsors ?

7)Is it possible to save money while shopping?

3.Sum up the contents of the interview.

4.Act out:

1)You are speaking to your friend about discounts and special offers in the Disneyland Resort Paris.

2)You are a travel agent selling packages for trips to the Disneyland Resort Paris. A customer is asking you about facilities, discounts and special offers available there.

5.Render into English.

После того, как первый Диснейленд был построен в 1955 году в Калифорнии, он стал излюбленным местом туристов в Америке. Вскоре подобные тематические парки были построены по всему миру. В Европе Диснейленд появился в 1992 году и располагается недалеко от Парижа. Парк, разделенный на 5 тематических площадок, включает 6 уникально спроектированных тематических отелей, ночной развлекательный комплекс, много аттракционов, ресторанов и баров. Чтобы привлечь больше туристов, существует система скидок и специальных предложений, которые позволяют сэкономить деньги при посещении Диснейленда близ Парижа. Наиболее распространенный способ получить скидки дает ежегодный паспорт «Фантазия», причем его владелец получает доступ к бесплатной парковке, льготным ценам на проживание и многое другое. Владельцы

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платиновых и золотых кредитных карт VISA также имеют право на скидки в ресторанах и магазинах. Кроме того, спонсоры и акционеры парка ежемесячно в рамках рекламных кампаний делают специальные предложения для своих клиентов. В специализированном магазине на территории парка можно купить вещи по сниженным ценам.

6. Read text 4 and do the tasks given below.

Text 4

ATTRACTIONS OUTSIDE PATTAYA CITY

Pattaya Elephant Village is on the road to Siam Country Club Golf Course. The first and still the biggest elephant village in Pattaya is a training school and elephant depot in addition to being an attraction for visitors. At the village you can watch an elephant display, magnificent beasts going through their various tricks such as log-roll- ing, playing football, and striking amusing poses. You can also arrange to go trekking through the jungle on a tour, which includes the option of a raft journey across the lake. These are real working elephants, and their training here equips them for the logging camps: an ecological sound business, as machines destroy the jungle habitat.

Being equipped with fishing gear Panarak park is on the road to Siam Country Club Golf Course, and has a tropical garden. Hat Chom Thian located 2 kilometers from Pattaya is good for swimming. The beach having a long straight coastline, Pattaya has become popular for water sports. Pattaya Park is a water amusement park with water slides, whirlpools and a large pool for children. Nong Nooch Village is a Thai village-style recreation park featuring Thai traditions and ceremonies, graceful dancers, sword fight, Thai kickboxing and much more. It is beautifully landscaped with a variety of orchids and some of the most outstanding and unusual plants and trees. Nong Nooch also takes pride in its man-made lake for rowing and other highlights. There is a miniature open zoo and aviary, where you can see monkeys pick coconuts at the command of their trainers. The highlight of the programme and everybody’s favourite is the elephant show. It also has two restaurants offering

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both Thai and international cuisine. Bang Saray, a fishing village located 2 km off the main highway offers deep-sea fishing opportunities. Being the largest of Pattaya’s archipelagos Êî Lan includes many attractions: viewing coral reefs from glass-bottomed boats, scuba diving, windsurfing, skiing, and parasailing. There are a lot of seafood restaurants. All the near-by islands are easy to get and charters can be arranged through your hotel tour desk or by negotiating a price directly with the boat owners. Thai Flying Club offers 30 minutes introduction flights with an instructor in a 2-seat Cessna — 150 trainer. Being located near Pattaya the club has many different types of aircraft available with 2 or 4 seats.

7. Complete the table.

Attractions Entertainment

1. Pattaya Elephant Village

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8.Give an annotation of text 4.

9.Speak on attractions outside Pattaya using your table.

10.Translate text 5 in writing with the help of a dictionary and entitle it.

Text 5

Pubs are known to be one of England’s most enduring social institutions, and have outlived the church and marketplace as the focal points of communities; London’s theatre, alternative comedy and live-music scenes being still largely pub-based. At their best, pubs can be as welcoming as their full name “public house” suggests, offering a fine range of drinks and filling food. At their worst, they’re dismal rooms with surly bar staff and rotten snacks. One thing you can be sure of, however, is that most pubs and bars remain smoke-filled places where drinking alcohol is the prime activity. London’s great period of pub building having taken place in the Victorian era, many pubs still pay homage to genuine Victorian interiors.

Chain pubs can now be found all over the capital: branches of All Bar One, Pitcher & Piano and the Slug & Lettuce are the most obvious, as they all share the chain name.

Pub food, on the whole, is a lunchtime affair, although “gastropubs”, which put more effort into their cooking, are increasingly offering meals in the evening too. The traditional image of London pub food is dire — a pseudo “ploughman’s lunch” of bread and cheese, or a murky-looking pie and chips — but the last couple of decades have seen plenty of improvements. You can get a palatable lunchtime meal at many of the pubs, and at a few of them you’re looking at cooking worthy of high restaurant-standard praise.

Notes:

at best — в лучшем случае

to pay homage to smth. — преклоняться перед чем-л.; отдавать должное чему-л.

ploughman — пахарь

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Phonetics

1.Read the words paying attention to the sounds.

[kw] — equity, antiquity, queen, square

[tS] — chapel, church, chess, each, French, rich, century, Chelsea, stretching

[S] — commercial, national, British, attraction, shopping, fashion, conscious, raffish

[i:] — defeat, easy, east, feed, seat, street [ai] — slight, sight, might, night

[u:] — tombstone, too, tool [ou] — boast, coast, coat, goal

Work at the words

1.Match the words in list A with their synonyms in list B.

A:contemporary, portion, conscious, to investigate, proceeds, sight, fashion, pedestrian, piazza, to be proud of, to exhibit, to retain, enduring

B:to explore, to demonstrate, vogue, lasting, square, walker, aware, to boast, modern, to keep, view, profit, share

2.Match the words in column A with those in column B.

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3.Read and translate the word-combinations.

all different from each other; the city’s royal and political power base; an hour bell; the city’s busiest shopping zones; one of London’s biggest tourist attractions; one of the world’s great financial centres

Work at your Grammar

The GERUND

1.Translate the sentences paying attention to the form of the Gerund.

a)asking — being asked

1)Ann likes asking questions. Ann likes being asked questions.

2)He likes telling funny stories. He insists on being told the truth.

3)I don’t mind helping him in this case. I don’t mind being helped in this case.

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b)asking — having asked

1)I avoided asking him such a question. Excuse me for having asked such a question.

2)He succeeded in translating this difficult text. He is proud of having translated such a difficult text.

3)Jane thought of leaving London on Monday. Jane thanked me for having helped her.

c)having asked — having been asked

1)I remember having asked you about it. I remember having been asked about my holiday.

2)He remembers having visited this town. He remembers having been visited by his friends last year.

3)They are proud of having spoken to this outstanding person. They are proud of having been spoken to.

2.Translate the sentences paying attention to the Gerund and Participle I.

1)Stretching for more than thirty miles at its broadest point London consists of so many parts.

2)This city is worth visiting.

3)In the north of Trafalgar Square there is the National Gallery exhibiting all schools of European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries.

4)They gave up the idea of spending holidays at the seaside.

5)The West End entertainment district including a large number of theatres, cinemas, clubs, flashy shops, cafés and restaurants is very popular with tourists.

6)Many tourists can’t help visiting Soho retaining a uniquely unorthodox and slightly raffish air.

The Gerundial Construction

(Герундиальный оборот)

Существительное (-s)

+ герундий

Притяжательное местоимение

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Переводится, как правило, придаточными предложениями. Выбор типа придаточного предложения зависит от того, каким членом предложения является герундий.

1.The guide’s knowing London very well made a great impression on the excursionists.

То, что гид хорошо знает Лондон, произвело большое впечатление на экскурсантов.

2. We know of his travelling about Europe.

Мы знаем, что он (о том, что он) путешествует по Европе.

3.There was no hope of our getting the tickets. Не было надежды, что мы получим билеты.

4.On the lecturer’s appearing in the hall, there was a burst of applause.

Когда лектор появился в зале, раздался взрыв аплодисментов.

3.Read and translate the sentences paying attention to the Gerundial Construction.

1)John’s coming so late surprised everybody.

2)The city’s having been founded in the 11th century makes it very popular with tourists.

3)The oldest part of Westminster Abbey having been set up as a monastery is well known.

4)Do you mind my joining your excursion?

5)I heard of this wonderful chapel having been built in the 16th century.

6)The British are proud of Admiral Nelson having defeated the French at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

7)They didn’t mind his staying at that hotel.

8)She insisted on her son being allowed to go on a three-day trip.

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9)I remember his having told me about it a few days ago.

10)I heard of his being sent to the south.

4.Read and translate the sentences paying attention to the Gerundial Construction and the Absolute Participial Construction.

1)All the necessary preparations having been done, we went on a three-day trip.

All the necessary preparations having been done enabled us to save time.

2)The Wallace Collection being located in the West End is a well-known fact.

The Wallace Collection being located in the West End, I hope to visit it.

3)The ship having arrived at the port, we went ashore. The shipmportanthaving arrivedfor us.at the port was very i

1.Look through text 1 and find the English equivalents of the following word-combinations.

гораздо больше всех городов; музей восковых фигур; рынок модных товаров; выходить из моды; быть в моде; лучшие музеи; завоевать репутацию места для выгула кошек; люди чисто коммерческого склада

2.Read and translate text 1.

Text 1

SIGHTS OF LONDON

Stretching for more than thirty miles at its broadest point, London is by far the largest city in Europe. London consists of so many parts. There is the West End and the East End; Westminster and the City, Holborn and Bloomsbury, Kensington, and Soho and many others, all differ from each other.

One of the few areas that you can easily explore on foot is Westminster and Whitehall, the city’s royal and political power base.

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