8. Agree or disagree with the statements:

1. Travelling is the name of a modern disease.

2. You can chose among various means of traveling.

3. The best part of traveling is planning the trip.

4. People always want to use the fastest way of traveling.

5. People always want to use the fastest way of traveling, so they choose traveling by horse.

6. Travelling by ship is a great pleasure for everybody.

7. Speed is the main advantage of travelling by car.

8. A big railway station is an interesting place.

9. North countries are the most popular with holiday-makers and they attract millions of people every year.

10. To live through a sea storm is the most enjoyable thing while travelling on board a ship.

11. Autumn is the best time for travelling.

12. Staying at home is a very pleasant way of spending a holiday.

9. Add a sentence to the given ones according to the sense using words in brackets:

Model: Airplanes carry passengers to various parts of the world. – … (means of travelling). // Airplanes carry passengers to various parts of the world. – Everybody knows that it is the fastest means of traveling.

1. Our carriage is near the dining car. – … (our journey).

2. The train doesn’t leave for another 10 minutes. – … (to take a taxi).

3. It wasn’t long before we arrived at our destination. – … (to travel by).

4. The sea is perfectly calm and you won’t be sea-sick. – … (the ship).

5. I’ll stop in Paris only for a few hours, after which I’ll fly straight to London. – … (to book the ticket).

6. They heard their flight announced. – … (to be huury).

10. Read the text. Is the situation real or not?

Once salesman, who had been traveling for years on a certain railway in America, found to his surprise that the train had come in on time. He immediately went to the guard and said: “ Here is a cigar. I want to congratulate you. I have been traveling this road for fifteen years, and this is the first time I have seen a train coming in on time”.

“Keep the cigar”, said the guard, “this is yesterday’s train”.

11. Read the text and put 10 questions on it:

Travel is extremely important nowadays. Two hundred years ago, most people never traveled further than a few kilometres. Whenever they traveled they walked, or went by carriage, or on horseback. But in the last quarter of the 20^th century, people have traveled a lot. Many people travel 50 or 100 kilometres daily by public transport or private car. Millions of people travel long distance abroad on business trips or for holidays every year.

For most people, speed is a very important factor when they are travelling. They want to reach their destination as quickly as possible. There are now planes that can cross the Atlantic in just over three hours.

Other people prefer comfort to speed. They like to relax during the journey and enjoy themselves as much as possible. For almost everyone, safety is the most important factor. For example, many people never fly because they believe it is dangerous. In fact, it is probably much more dangerous to travel by car or even to walk across a street.