- •Липецкий государственный педагогический университет
- •Липецк, 2006 unit 1 why do people travel?
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •5. Look through the list of words below and classify them into two groups: “a short journey” and “a long journey”.
- •6. Put one of the words below in each space. Use each word only once.
- •8. Think of at least 5 words to go into each blank.
- •9. Use the following words to make as many compounds as possible.
- •10. Match the verbs on the left with nouns on the right.
- •11. Choose the best word to complete the sentences.
- •12. Fill in the gaps with correct prepositions.
- •13. Say it in English.
- •Reading
- •1. Read the text (the paragraphs are out of order). Then do the tasks which follow. Sum up the reasons for travelling that Mark Wallington mentions in his essay.
- •2. Travelling On Your Own.
- •1) Read the following text to find out how the writer prefers to travel and why.
- •2) Now complete these statements by choosing the answer you think fits best.
- •3) Discussion Points:
- •Why do people travel?
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •More Than One Way to Travel
- •Listening
- •Have your say
- •2. Comment upon the following quotation:
- •III reading
- •Remember the pattern
- •Writing
- •Have your say
- •Act it out
- •The Best Way to Travel
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •8. Divide the following means of transport into 3 groups: transport by air, water, on land.
- •9. Read the short passage below and decide what the missing words are.
- •10. A) Match the expressions on the left to their explanations on the right.
- •Listening
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •5. Give at least 3 alternatives for each blank.
- •6. Choose the correct answer.
- •7. Read the passage and work out the missing words.
- •8. Give English equivalents.
- •Joke Time!
- •9. The following sentences describe what you do when you go to an airport to catch a plane, but they are in the wrong order. Read them carefully and put them in the right order.
- •What is jet lag?
- •Reading
- •1. You are going to read the true story of how Nigel Hughes flew to Brazil by accident. How do you think this could have happened?
- •I Flew to Brazil by Accident
- •2. Pre-reading task.
- •1) What for you is most important from an airline? Put the following in order of importance:
- •2) Flying is probably one of the safest ways to travel, but there can be problems. Discuss what can go wrong on the ground and in the air.
- •Travellers’ Tales
- •Have your say
- •2. Sum up all the arguments for and against flying.
- •3. Have you ever travelled by air? Share your experience with the class. Act it out
- •I’m not Keen on Flying
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •2. British English or American English? Complete the table.
- •3. Match the nouns in the middle with the words on the outside.
- •4. Fill in the gaps with correct prepositions.
- •5. Complete these sentences.
- •Joke Time!
- •Reading
- •Writing
- •2. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of railway travel?
- •2. British English or American English? Classify the words into 2 columns:
- •8. Read the passage and put the sentences in the correct order.
- •Reading
- •1. Read the text and put the paragraphs in the correct order under the headings:
- •2. Read the text and fill each gap with one of these words:
- •The Road to Ruin
- •Writing
- •Vocabulary Work
- •1. Replace these words and expressions from the text you have just read with words or expressions of your own.
- •2. Explain the meaning of the following:
- •3. Find words and expressions for these definitions.
- •Writing
- •Have your say
- •Act it out
- •Unit 3 are you an experienced traveller?
- •An experienced traveller
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •Reading
- •1. A) Read this advice from a travel book and complete the sentences.
- •2. The leaflet below gives advice to students on travelling round Europe by train. After reading it, read the questions below and choose the answer which you think fits best. Eurorailing
- •Writing
- •Vocabulary
- •In sight
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •1. Transcribe and read the following words.
- •Valise, commodious, reverie, saloon, exhilaration, harbour, disillusioned,
- •2. Could you do this crossword puzzle?
- •3. Fill in the gaps with the correct prepositions.
- •8. Are the following statements true or false? Can you correct the false ones?
- •9. Read the passage and fill in the gaps with any suitable words or expressions.
- •Writing
- •Listening
- •Have your say
- •Unit 4 does travel broaden the mind?
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus on vocabulary
- •6. Fill in the gaps to complete the phrases. Give alternatives where possible.
- •Reading
- •4. Choose one of the quotations below and comment upon it.
- •When in Rome
- •Getting ready for the round-table talk writing
- •Listening
- •Have your say
- •Brush up everything you have done
- •And get ready for
- •The Round-Table Talk
- •On travelling.
11. Choose the best word to complete the sentences.
1. comfortable – convenient
a. His life has settled into a ... pattern that never changes.
b. Come at the time that is most ... to you.
c. This is a nice ... car to travel in.
d. I find it ... to live just outside the town.
2. accident – incident – adventure
a. Oh, that was one of the strangest ...s in my life.
b. There have been a lot of road ...s in the town lately.
c. For a child often, it is quite an ... to go away from home for some weeks.
d. Did you hear about the terrible rail …? The train was derailed and many people were killed.
3. learn – find out – discover
a. Haven't you ... the truth?
b. Scientists have ... that this disease is carried by rats.
c. They soon ... that he was lying.
d. His mother ... in the newspapers of her son's success.
4. scene – scenery
a. This mountain ... is just what I like.
b. There is a beautiful ... from our hotel window.
c. Hastings was the ... of a great battle.
12. Fill in the gaps with correct prepositions.
travel … necessity
travel ... search of health
travel ... foot
brag ... one's adventures
feel superior ... other people
go ... air
travel ... a change of scene
travel ... curiosity
go ... a cycling tour
ride ... a car
13. Say it in English.
потерпеть кораблекрушение
страдать морской болезнью
остановить попутную машину
попасть в аварию
погибнуть в автокатастрофе
знакомиться с достопримечательностями с помощью слайдов
заказать каюту на корабле
наслаждаться прекрасными пейзажами
совершить приятную автобусную экскурсию в Париж
отдохнуть от цивилизации
отправиться в утомительное кругосветное путешествие
захватывающее путешествие вниз по Нилу
волнующее путешествие в Тибет
Reading
1. Read the text (the paragraphs are out of order). Then do the tasks which follow. Sum up the reasons for travelling that Mark Wallington mentions in his essay.
A
So I turned to its personal significance: was I escaping from something? Was I turning my back on the nine-to-five monotony of the working week? Unlikely, I didn’t have a ________. Was I then perhaps setting out as a protest? Or was I searching for the Man Within, the Real Me, was spiritual development my goal? No, I couldn't convince myself, and in the end the best ________ I could come up with was I thought I might impress this girl I’d met at a party before Christmas.
B
But try telling people that. They’ll say, “Yes, but why are you doing it?" They want a declaration, an objective that gives the trip a plot; something of the "To ________ Vikings could have done it in open boats", kind of thing.
C
Now, as motives go this may sound one of the less impressive, but at this point I think it's worthwhile looking back through ________ at the various voyages of discovery and making note of just how many pioneers set out not to chart the unknown and extend the limits of human endurance but to impress girls they'd met at parties. You'll find none of them did, which I think is a shame. If only one of the great ________ could have stepped off his mountain or boat and instead of delivering some ________ speech concerning Man and Destiny, have announced that he did it to impress Debbie whom he met round at Doug's place a fortnight before, then the world would be a better place – we'd probably still think it was flat, but it would be better.
D
The best journeys have no motives. They are insignificant little affairs, made for no other reason than they exist, for no other goal than ________.
E
I'd thought long and hard to try and give my walk round the Cornish coast some kind of purpose, but had found it difficult. To begin with I'd considered its geographical implication, but as a journey it wasn't original enough. Devon had no lost tribes, Cornwall no rivers with sources ________. I was going to hike round the peninsular coastal path and I was unlikely to prove anything about the earth that couldn't already be looked up in any atlas of the area. I wasn't even going to be the first person to walk the path in its entirety; my test was purely one of physical strength and endurance; if I wanted to get myself in the record books I'd have to walk it ________ or blindfold.
(from 500 Mile Walkies by Mark Wallington)
Decide on the correct order of the paragraphs.
Decide where the following words should come in the text: adventures, backwards, fun, history, job, meaningless, prove, reason, undiscovered.
Make up a title for the text.