- •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.
Focus on vocabulary
1. Give verbs corresponding to these explanations.
stop doing something
make suitable for a new use, need, situation
decide firmly, resolve, make up one’s mind
form an opinion about
do what one is trying to do
put up with sth without protest
2. Give synonyms.
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1. opinion
4. elaborate
2. desert (v)
5. resolute
3. liberal
6. definite
3. Fill in correct prepositions.
He insisted ... the truth of the story.
Police have finally succeeded ... solving the mystery.
Must you persist … misunderstanding me?
I’ve no tolerance … bad manners.
Judging … what everyone says about him, I’d say he’s got a good chance of winning.
4. Give the opposites.
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1. tolerant
5. fancy (a)
2. patient
6. well-adjusted
3. broad-minded
7. determined
4. success
8. criticism
5. Choose the right word to complete the sentences.
custom – habit
Every country has its ________s.
She is a slave of her ________s.
It’s a ________ in Japan to take off your shoes before entering a house.
He has a ________ of coughing before he speaks.
In Hong Kong I learnt a lot about Chinese ________s.
patience – tolerance
The natives had no ________ for the tourists who could not speak their language.
People should have enough religious ________.
After 3 hours waiting for the train our _______ was exhausted.
He has a low ________ for stupidity.
Learning to talk again after his accident required great ________.
change – adapt – adjust – assimilate
We ________ ourselves to the hot weather.
She ________ herself to the heat of the country very quickly.
I must ________ my watch, it’s a little slow.
Some people ________ easily to living in new places; some don’t.
You’ve ________ such a lot since I last saw you.
Some foreigners ________ easily to our way of life.
6. Fill in the gaps to complete the phrases. Give alternatives where possible.
Some people go abroad ________ to live there exactly as if they were at home On the other hand, there are travellers who ________ so successfully to foreign ________ that ________. Perhaps the ideal would be if travel could ________ making people ________ without ________.
Reading
Read the passage from A. Christie’s novel “There Is a Tide”. What viewpoints are opposed here? Whose opinion do you share? Why
Lynn cried out, “Oh, don’t you see, M. Poirot, it’s all so difficult. It isn’t a question of David at all. It’s me. I’ve changed. I’ve been away for three - four years. Now I’ve come back I’m not the same person who went away. That’s the tragedy everywhere. People coming home changed, having to readjust themselves. You can't go away and lead a different kind of life and not change.”0
“You are wrong,” said Poirot. “The tragedy of life is that people do not change.”
She stared at him, shaking her head. He insisted, “But yes, it's so. Why did you go away in the first place?”
“Why? I went into the Wrens. I went on service.”
“Yes, yes, but why did you join the Wrens in the first place? You were engaged to be married. You were in love with Rowley Cloade. You could have worked, could you not, as a land girl, here in Warmsley Vale.”
“I could have, I suppose, but I wanted ― “
“You wanted to get away. You wanted to go abroad, to see life. You wanted, perhaps, to get away from Rowley Cloade. And now, you are restless, you still want – to get away. Oh no, mademoiselle, people do not change.”
“When I was out East, I longed for home,” Lynn cried defensively.
“Yes, yes, where you are not, there you will want to be. That will always be so, perhaps, with you.”
NOTES
land-girl, n
girl doing farm-work, esp. in war-time
the/ a Wren(s)
member(s) of the Women's Royal Naval Service
WRITING
Write a 2 or 3-page essay stating your reaction to one of the quotations given below.
“Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.” (William Shakespeare)
“They change their climate, not their soul, who run beyond the sea.” (Horace, 65 B.C. – 8 B.C.)
“The more I sea of other countries the more I love my own.” (Mme de Stael, 1766-1817)
HAVE YOUR SAY
1. Comment on the cartoon.
2. Many writers have recently discussed the difference between tourists and travellers. Look at the list below of some of the things people do when they visit other countries, and then put each one under what is, in your opinion, the correct heading.
TRAVELLERS |
TOURISTS |
(a) Learn some of the language of the country so that they can speak it to people if they meet.
(b) Travel in a coach full of people from their own country.
(c) Eat in their hotel food cooked by chefs who know what their hotel guests are used to.
(d) Travel on trains and buses used by local people.
(e) See the famous sights which everyone who goes to that country looks at.
(f) Eat the local food with local people.
(g) Go to places few visitors have seen, even when difficult or uncomfortable.
(h) Meet, talk to, share experiences with local people.
Now, explain the difference between a traveller and a tourist.
3. Read the argumentative essay below. Study the arguments and the counter-arguments; reconstruct them; contribute some ideas of your own. Now take part in class discussion of the topic arguing "for" or "against".
'The tourist trade contributes absolutely nothing to increasing understanding between nations'
The tourist trade is booming. With all this coming and going, you’d expect greater understanding to develop between the nations of the world. Not a bit of it! Superb systems of communication by air, sea and land make it possible for us to visit each other’s countries at a moderate cost. What was once the ‘grand tour’, reserved for only the very rich, is now within everybody’s grasp. The package tour and chartered flights are not to be sneered at. Modern travellers enjoy a level of comfort which the lords and ladies on grand tours in the old days couldn’t have dreamed of. But what’s the sense of this mass exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each other?
Many tourist organisations are directly responsible for this state of affairs. They deliberately set out to protect their clients from too much contact with the local population. The modern tourist leads a cosseted, sheltered life. He lives at international hotels, where he eats his international food and sips his international drink while he gazes at the natives from a distance. Conducted tours to places of interest are carefully censored. The tourist is allowed to see only what the organisers want him to see and no more. A strict schedule makes it impossible for the tourist to wander off on his own; and anyway, language is always a barrier, so he is only too happy to be protected in this way. At its very worst, this leads to a new and hideous kind of colonization. The summer quarters of the inhabitants of the cité universitaire are temporarily re-established on the island of Corfu. Blackpool is recreated at Torremolinos where the traveller goes not to eat paella, but fish and chips.
The sad thing about this situation is that it leads to the persistence of national stereotypes. We don't see the people of other nations as they really are, but as we have been brought up to believe they are. You can test this for yourself. Take five nationalities, say, French, German, English, American and Italian. Now in your mind, match them with these five adjectives: musical, amorous, cold, pedantic, naive. Far from providing us with any insight into the national characteristics of the peoples just mentioned, these adjectives actually act as barriers. So when you set out on your travels, the only characteristics you notice are those which confirm your preconceptions. You come away with the highly unoriginal and inaccurate impression that, say, ‘Anglo-Saxons are hypocrites’ or that ‘Latin peoples shout a lot’. You only have to make a few foreign friends to understand how absurd and harmful national stereotypes are. But how can you make foreign friends when the tourist trade does its best to prevent you?
Carried to an extreme, stereotypes can be positively dangerous. Wild generalisations stir up racial hatred and blind us to the basic fact – how trite it sounds! – that all people are human. We are all similar to each other and at the same time all unique.
The argument: key words
Considerable tourist traffic, but no greater understanding between nations.
Superb system of communication: air, sea, land; moderate cost.
Grand tour: for very rich. Now: package tour: high level comfort.
What’s the sense, if ignorant of each other?
Tourist organisations responsible: protect clients from local people.
Modern tourist: a sheltered life; international hotels, food, etc.
Local sight-seeing censored by organisers.
Tourists happy to be protected.
New and hideous colonization: e.g. cité unversitaire: Corfu; Blackpool; Torremolinos.
This leads to persistence of national stereotypes.
See others not as they are, but as we have been taught to believe they are.
Test for yourself: match French, German, English, American, Italian with: musical, amorous, cold, pedantic, naïve.
Adjectives: no insight into characteristics, but barriers.
When traveling you notice characteristics which confirm preconceptions.
E.g. Anglo-Saxons: hypocrites; Latin peoples: noisy.
Foreign friends make you understand stereotypes absurd, harmful.
Tourist trade prevents you making foreign friends.
Stereotypes: dangerous, can stir up racial hatred.
All people human; all similar; all unique.
The counter-argument: key words
Stereotypes: nothing to do with tourist trade.
Idea of stereotypes only a party joke anyway.
Tourism contributes enormously to international understanding.
Pre-war days hardly anyone travelled; today hardly anyone doesn’t.
This in itself cannot fail to lead to understanding.
E.g. consider the way nations influence each other: fashions, eating habits, etc.
Many examples of ‘national’ fashions becoming world fashions.
World today: a small place; barriers breaking down everywhere.
E.g. European Economic Community; United Nations, etc.
Increasing tendency to identify with larger groups.
Great interest in language learning.
People who are ‘protected’ at international hotels are old and rich.
The young are more impressionable, not so ‘protected’.
People are eager to get to know each other; curious about different way of life.