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Answer.

1.When can you use Heathrow express?

2.What sort of rail link is it?

3.How often does it run?

4.How long does it take by express from Heathrow to Central London?

5.What luggage can you check in after 23 June 1999? Where can you do it?

6.Where can you buy tickets for Heathrow Express?

16.You’re at the airport. There are a lot of signs around you.

Which signs go with which words?

17. What do you say in these situations?

a) Match these four sentences with A or B.

1.Could I have a day return, please?

2.Do I have to change planes?

3.What platform does it leave from?

4.Is the flight on time?

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b)Listening.

Listen to these conversations and check your guesses.

c) Practise each dialogue with a partner. Take turns to be A and B.

Text A

18. Прочитайте текст вслух, обращая внимание на интонацию. Прочитайте текст про себя и скажите, соответствует ли заголовок теме текста.

Remember!

an age [eIG] – век

an interpreter [In tE:prItq] – переводчик through [Tru:] – через

Cultural Note

Channel Tunnel is an underground passage below the English Channel to take trains travelling between England and France.

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The Age of the Train

Mary Fisher is an interpreter. She lives in London but she often has to work in France.

Q:Mary, tell our readers about your journey to France.

M:I go by train. I take the train from Waterloo station

Q:How long does the train take?

M:It takes three hours and I work during the journey. By plane, it takes an hour but you have to get to and from Charles de Gaulle airport.

Q:What time do you leave London?

M:There are several trains a day. I get the train at eight o’clock and arrive at the Gare du Nord station in Paris at midday French time. I work in an office which is very

near, so I go there on foot. I’m at work by half past twelve.

Q:And when do you leave for home?

M:I usually stay at a friend’s flat, work next day and get the seven o’clock train home. I get to London at nine o’clock British time, and I am home by a quarter to ten.

Q:So what do you think of the Channel Tunnel service?

M:It’s great. It’s really the age of the train.

19.Tasks

a)Do the task before the text.

b)Which is the odd word out?

c)Ask and answer.

1.What does Mary Fisher do?

2.Where does she live?

3.Where does Mary get on the train?

4.Does the train to Paris take 2 hours? Ask “How long?”

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5.Does Mary leave London in the evening? Ask “When?”

6.Does she arrive in Paris at midnight French time? Ask “When?”

7.Does she go to the office by bus? Ask “How?” “Why?”

8.Does Mary Fisher stay in Paris at a hotel? Ask “Where?”

9.Does she get back to London next week? Ask “When?”

10.Does Mary like the Eurostar service? Why? / Why not?

d)Просмотрите текст и назовите предложения, которые можно опустить как несущественные в ответах Мэри.

e)Суммируйте полученную информацию, опираясь на следующую схему высказывания.

First ... Then / So ... Finally

Text B

20. Read some facts about London’s Heathrow.

Note! to handle – управлять, держать под контролем an item – предмет

while travelling – во время путешествия over – свыше

to smell drugs – распознавать наркотики по запаху

London’s Heathrow

London’s Heathrow is a very busy international airport. It handles over 350,000 international flights every year. 70 airlines use Heathrow.

Around 54,000 people work at Heathrow. Near the centre of the airport is the police station with 300 police officers and 14 dogs that can smell drugs.

The Medical Centre has 8 nurses and 3 doctors always ready to help people who have heart problems while travelling to or through Heathrow.

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Every year Heathrow handles over 57,000,000 items of luggage. Heathrow’s duty free shops sell 500 million cigarettes every day.

Travellers drink 23,000 cups of coffee and tea and eat 11,500 sandwiches at the airport cafe´s and bars every day.

21. Tasks.

a) Which of these things are all in the text?

b)How much do you remember?

1.Heathrow handles ________________ international flights yearly.

2.Heathrow handles _____________ items of luggage.

3.There are __________ police officers and ___________

dogs.

4.____________ people work at Heathrow.

5.Duty free shops sell ____________ cigarettes a day.

6.Travellers drink __________ cups of coffee and eat

__________ sandwiches every day.

7.___________ airlines use Heathrow.

c)Read these statements and say what you like / dislike about travelling by air.

For or against?

Plane tickets are very expensive nowadays. The journey impresses you a lot.

Many people die from heart attack during the flight. Flying is a very comfortable thing.

The best way to travel in summer time is by air.

Planes cannot take you from door to door. You need a bus or a taxi to take you to the airport.

You get very much tired during the flight. Travelling by air may be very stressful at times.

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d) Write a short paragraph about travelling.

Do you have to travel in your job?

Do you ever travel on long distances? How often? Which do you prefer, the plane or the railway? Why? How long does it take you to get to the place?

Do you think trains are becoming very popular in your country?

22. Roleplay the game on page 180.

Use the following expression: to go on a morning flight (вылететь утренним рейсом).

Test 10

1. Заполните пропуски с помощью “have to / has to / don’t have to / doesn’t have to”

+ один из этих глаголов

Example:

Sarah is a doctor. She has to work this evening.

1.This is the end of the course. The students ____ ______ a test.

2.It’s hot. You ____ ______ a sweater.

3.His eyes are very good. He ____ ______ glasses.

4.I eat too much chocolate. I ____ ______ .

5.You want to speak good English. You ____ ______ hard.

6.Samuel is not often at home. He ____ ______ a lot in his job.

2. Вставьте, где необходимо, пропущенные артикли.

Yohanes Bastien is ….. ticket inspector. He works on ….. Eurostar service between ….. Britain, ….. France and ….. Belgium. He travels to London and Brussels several times ….. week. He lives in ….. house in Paris. ….. house is about thirty minutes from Gare du Nord. And how does he get to ….. work? By ….. bicycle!

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3. Вместо пропусков вставьте вспомогательные глаголы am/ is / are / do / don’t / does / doesn’t.

1.“Have a cigarette.” “No, thank you, I ______ smoke.

2.Why ______ you leaving so soon?

3.“What ______ she do?” “She’s a dentist.”

4.I ______ want to go out. It ______ raining.

5.“Where ______ you come from?” “From Canada.”

6.George is a good photographer, but he ______ take photos.

7.Look at her! She ______ running. It ______ take her long to run five kilometers.

4. Заполните пропуски подходящими предлогами.

at in about after with by to on

James lives ____ a small flat ____ Cambridge. He lives ____

two other boys who are students ____ Cambridge University. They work hard during the week.

James has two jobs. ____ Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays he works ____ a hospital, where he helps to look ____ children who are ill. He goes to the hospital _____ bus. He starts ____ ten o’clock and works until quarter ____ five. On Thursdays and Fridays he works ____ home.

____ the evening, one of the boys cooks a meal. ____ dinner they look in the newspaper to see what’s on TV or they talk ____

their day. They usually go to bed ____ about midnight.

5. Выберите правильную форму существительного (с предлогом) – с артиклем или без него.

Example:

She is happy at college (будучи студенткой)

I meet him at the college (место встречи)

1.Excuse me, where is university / the university?

2.What time do you finish college / the college?

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3.Every term parents go to school / the school to meet the teachers.

4.How many people go to university / the university in your country?

5.Jack is ill and he’s still in hospital / the hospital. Jill is going to hospital / the hospital to visit him.

6.Mrs. Kelly goes to church / the church every Sunday.

7.We’d like to visit church / the church. It’s a beautiful building.

8.After leaving school / the school, Nora works as a cleaner

in hospital / at the hospital.

6. Переведите следующие предложения на английский язык.

1.Выключите радио. Мы его не слушаем.

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2.Как часто вам приходится чистить туфли?

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3.– Где ты, Рой? – Я в большой комнате, занимаюсь утренней гимнастикой. – Странно, ты обычно бегаешь по утрам.

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4.На каком языке они говорят? Я не могу их понять.

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5.У неё уходит 7 минут на ходьбу пешком от дома до универсама.

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6.На новой работе ему часто приходится рано вставать и ехать в аэропорт Внуково. Я ему сочувствую.

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