Package tour, trip, travel, journey, cruise, tour, flight

1. For general advice about _ , go to a travel agent.

2. We're going on a of Europe, visiting 11 countries in five weeks.

3. We're going on a three-week __ round the Mediterranean. The ship will call Venice, Athens, Istanbul and Alexandria.

4. Air France __ 507 from Paris to New York will be taking off in ten minutes.

5. The _ from Heathrow Airport to the centre of London takes about 45 minutes by underground.

6. During our stay in London we'll go on a day __ to Oxford.

7. One of the main advantages of going on a __ is the fact that you don't have to spend weeks planning routes, finding hotels, buying tickets, etc. It's all done for you.

Social english

At the Airport

A departure/arrival/transit and transfer/VDP lounge

Check-in desk

Passport control

Customs

Duty-free shop

Gate

Gangway

Runway

Information desk

Waiting room/lounge

Baggage reclaim

Left-luggage office

Unit 7

TIMES TO REMEMBER

Focus on

Use of English

Grammar

the Past Simple

Tense Regular and Irregular Verbs

Used to/Would

the Past Continuous Tense

Past Continuous vs. Past Simple

Emphatic auxiliary — do/did

Further Practice: Articles

Reading: Education

Speaking: Ambitions

Social English

At the Railway Station

USE OF ENGLISH

Grammar

The Past Simple Tense

The Past Simple Tense is used:

to talk about a complete action or an event in the past.

The action can be a short one

I missed the bus. I asked a question.

or a long one

I lived there for years. I walked for hours.

When we talk about actions and situations in the past we use:

a) adverbs of frequency to talk about habits

Always	At school he always complained about bad food.
Usually	When I was a child, I usually went to the cinema with my parents.
Seldom	Jack's parents seldom went on holiday when he was a little boy.
Never	My brother never missed a classical guitar performance.

etc.

b) adverbs of sequence to order events

Yesterday morning/afternoon/evening; the day before yesterday;

Kate worked yesterday afternoon.

Last	night/week/month/year;
	spring/summer/autumn/winter;
	Monday/Tuesday, etc.

Jane moved into a new flat last week.

five minutes	ago
three hours
five days
a week
two months
a year

He passed all his exams two months ago.

Long ago,	Long ago, people learned to make musical instruments.
(Many) years later	Years later people learned to make more elaborate ones.
Many years later	Many years ago my mother taught me to play the piano.
After that	After that I started taking piano classes with a professional pianist.
(Soon) afterwards	Soon afterwards I played the piano in many piano performances.
In those days	In those days piano performances were quite popular.
Then	Then I gave up playing music.
At that time	At that time I was rather keen on sports.