7. Перечитайте текст, сосредоточив внимание на его важнейших деталях, и выполните нижеследующие задания.

7.1. Выберите правильные варианты ответов на поставленные вопросы (на каждый вопрос – только один правильный ответ).

1. What do tour packages include?

a) transportation

b) accommodation

c) catering

d) transfers

e) all of the variants given

2. What statement about the travel agent doesn’t correspond to reality?

a) The travel agent is a wholesaler

b) The travel agent is a retailer

c) The travel agent gets a commission from the tour operator

d) both “a” and “c”

e) both “b” and “c”

3. What does the tourism manager do?

a) hires employees

b) runs some tourist business

c) works directly with the public

d) both “a” and “c”

e) both “a” and “b”

4. What are the features of the tour guide?

a) knows a lot on history, geography, art and culture

b) decides on prices and discounts

c) plans tourist business

d) knows all the sights in a travel destination

e) both “a” and “d”

5. What statement characterizes the chief animator?

a) is also called the social director

b) communicates with guests a lot

c) accompanies tourists during a local tour or during the whole journey

d) both “a” and “b”

e) “a”, “b” and “c”

7.2. Заполните таблицу, разъяснив суть каждой профессии в сфере туриндустрии.

	OCCUPATION	DESCRIPTION
1	The tour operator
2	The travel agent
3	The tourism manager
4	The tour guide
5	The animator
6	The chief animator

7.3. Определите, истинно или ложно каждое из нижеперечисленных утверждений (относительно текста). Пометьте каждое предложение как “T (true)” или “F (false)”. Откорректируйте ложные утверждения.

1. In order to develop a tour package the tour operator works with travel agencies.

2. Sometimes the tour operator sells tour packages direct to the public.

3. Tour operators are the main producers in the tourist industry.

4. The travel agent like the shop-assistant sells goods to customers.

5. He sells tour packages wholesale to consumers.

6. Travel agents are the main sellers in the tourist industry.

7. The tourism manager is also called the tour conductor.

7.4. Дайте развернутые ответы на поставленные вопросы, опираясь на содержание текста.

1. What is the difference between a wholesaler and a retailer?

2. To your mind, which of the occupations mentioned in the text is the most demanding?

3. What traits of character should a person have if he or she wants to work as a tour operator/a travel agent/a tourism manager/a tour guide/an animator?

8. Подготовьте развернутые высказывания (от 25 развернутых предложений) в ответ на вопросы, заданные ниже. Задание, помеченное звездочкой, выполнять не обязательно.

1. What occupation in the sphere of travel industry would you personally choose? Why?

2.* If you happen to know any foreigners engaged in the occupations mentioned in the text, ask them to tell you about the peculiarities of their profession. Share this information with your groupmates/instructor.

Text 2. Tourist Companies

1. Убедитесь, что Вам понятны слова и выражения, перечисленные ниже. Если необходимо, воспользуйтесь словарем.

• advantage

• chain

• escort

• permission

• terminal

• advice

• charter

• ferry

• poster

• timetable

• airlines

• climate

• folder

• to publish

• tourist product

• air ticket

• coach

• leisure centre

• to put together (put, put)

• travel clerk

• article

• coaching

• licence, license (us)

• rack

• travel shop

• attraction

• coaching tour

• located

• receipt

• travelogue

• billboard

• cruising tour

• luggage

• research

• branch

• the customs

• magazine

• to service

• to branch out

• department store

• major

• shipping company

• booklet

• disadvantage

• manual

• car hire

• to employ

• office site

• subject