- •Unit 5 on the move
- •Lead-in
- •1. Match the lines to make quotations about travelling. Do it in figures and letters.
- •Reading comprehension
- •2. A) You are going to read the essay ‘Walking Tours’ by r. L. Stevenson. Before you start reading, make sure you can read and understand the following:
- •3. Read the biography of r. L. Stevenson and focus on the three main points:
- •Language focus
- •5. Study the numbered options in the text. Write out the correct options. Note that in one case both options are correct.
- •6. Supply the appropriate form of the participles for the following sentences. The first one has been done as an example.
- •Vocabulary practice
- •8. A) Do the crossword ‘Travelling by train’.
- •10. Read the text and decide which answer (a, b, c or d) best completes each collocation or fixed phrase. Do it in figures and letters.
- •11. A) To be ready to translate some sentences into English look through the topical vocabulary in the box below.
- •Variant 1
- •Variant 2
- •Variant 3
- •12. Choose one of the statements and agree or disagree with it. Motivate your answer in 5 sentences. Do it in written form.
- •Appendix 5
- •2. A) Read an article about the future of tourism paying special attention to the statements given below.
- •3. A) Read the article concentrating on the changes in the ways of spending holidays.
- •4. A) Read the letter of giving information (advice). Take notes putting them in the flow diagram given below. The first one has been done for you as an example.
- •5. A) Read the dialogue about the journey to Paris.
10. Read the text and decide which answer (a, b, c or d) best completes each collocation or fixed phrase. Do it in figures and letters.
Most big cities were built long before the heyday of the private car. As a result they rarely have enough space for moving traffic or parked vehicles, and long queues of (1) ____vehicles are a common sight. Indeed some cities end up being almost permanently (2) _______during the day. Those that have a relatively free (3) ______of traffic at non-peak periods of the day do not escape either. The (4) _____hour of early morning or early evening can easily see traffic brought to a (5) ______. The effects of exhaust (6) _____on air pollution in cities have been well documented. Buses might be seen as the solution, but they move slowly because of the sheer (7) _______of other traffic, thus encouraging more commuters to abandon (8) _______transport.
1) A standing B settle C stationary D static
2) A stuffed B saturated C crammed D congested
3) A flow B current C tide D flood
4) A push B rush C hasty D hurry
5) A standstill B hold-up C jam D freeze
6) A smells B odours C fumes D stinks
7) A size B volume C public D popular
TRANSLATION FOCUS
11. A) To be ready to translate some sentences into English look through the topical vocabulary in the box below.
Travel, journey, voyage, tour, cruise, hitch-hiking, outing; wide-body aircraft, to take off, to land, take-off and landing characteristics, ground services, cruising speed, embarkation, scale, excess baggage, air-sickness, to refrain, to declare, check-in, check-in-desk, to go through customs, custom inspector, to be liable to duty, to be duty free, to pay duty on sth, fixed quota; railway ticket, carriage, car, luggage van, sleeping car, compartment, porter, red cap, ticket collector, track, fast train, through train, lower (upper) berth, to travel light, to hail a porter, to queue up, one-way (single) ticket, return (round-trip) ticket, time-table, to catch the train, to miss the train, cloak-room; rumble seat, driving license, highway, overtake, bumpy road, puncture (flat tyre), jack, ignition, spark plugs, bonnet, boot, windscreen, windscreen wipers, steering wheel, headlight, a car wheel, a car tyre, spare wheel, clutch pedal, brake pedal, accelerator pedal, gear-lever, gear-box, headrest, exhaust pipe, roof-rack, traffic lights.
b) Your teacher will offer you one of the variants of the translation below. Translate the sentences into English in written form.
Variant 1
1. Звук широко-фюзеляжного літака, який злітав у повітря, на мить оглушив Джейн. 2. Перевіряючи злітно-посадочні характеристики літака, комісія виявила значні недоліки в документації. 3. Повідомляють, що під час затримання групи терористів наземними службами, в аеропорту почалась стрілянина. 4. Літак іде на посадку, зменшуючи швидкість польоту. 5. Ваги в аеропорту показали, що багаж Майкла вищий від норми. 6. Страждаючи на повітряну хворобу, вона завжди утримувалась від перельотів через Атлантику. 7. Діку довелося задекларувати усі статуетки зі слонової кістки, куплені в Конго. 8. Відомо, що всі пасажири повинні пройти реєстрацію не пізніше ніж за годину до відльоту. 9. Проходячи митний контроль, Джейк був затриманий митником через наявність наркотиків у його багажу. 10. Подарунки, куплені Катрін для її родичів у магазині аеропорту, не підлягали митному збору.