Ex. 6. Opposites: travel & tourism. Sort the words below into fifteen pairs. Each pair consists of two words with opposite meanings. For example: close; open.

add

advance • arrival

cancel • cheap • confirm • decrease

departure • disembark • double • early • embark

expensive • guest • host • incoming • increase • land

late • loss • outgoing • overcharge • postpone

profit • receive • send • single

subtract • take off

undercharge

Ex. 7. Check your answer to Exercise 6 and then complete these fifteen sentences using one word from each pair. Sometimes you may have to change the form of a word. For example: take off; the plane took off two hours ago.

1. We've just __________ in London: can you send someone to the airport to meet us?

2. If possible I'd like to __________ our meeting until Wednesday: Monday is going to be a difficult day for me.

3. This bill's wrong: you've __________ me by £6.50.

4. There was a technical problem with the doors on the aeroplane and the passengers had to wait fifteen minutes to __________.

5. I'm sorry I'm _________: I couldn't get a taxi.

6. The hotel made a £1 million __________ this year, so we're paying a bonus to the staff.

7. I'm calling to __________ my reservation for Monday; I'll be arriving at about noon.

8. VAT is __________ at 17.5%.

9. The hotel sends someone to the airport to meet __________ flights.

10. If this holiday's too _________ you could consider somewhere closer to home.

11. The hotel has accommodation for up to 2,000 __________ at any one time.

12. I'd like a __________ room for my wife and myself.

13. I'm booked on BA 152 to Madrid and I'd like to check the __________ time.

14. The number of visitors to Greece__________ in the winter months.

15. Could you possibly __________ this fax for me?

Ex. 8. Fill in the gaps with the following words:

Value, stay, probably, keeps, effect, countries, the voyage, most of, advertising, easier, mountain-lovers, to be rich, treasures, showed, as long as.

Have you ever been a tourist? If so, your tour was almost certainly __1____ and more comfortable than the journeys of a hundred, or even fifty years ago. It ___2__, cost less, too. The tourists on Mark Twain's ship travelling to the Mediterranean Sea, Palestine, Egypt and other places paid $1,250 for __3___, but they had to add the cost of every excursion on shore. Today you can fly in comfortable planes and __4__ in good hotels for a fixed amount, which includes almost everything.

Not very long ago, a tourist had ___5___ or ready to bear very bad conditions. Today it is not necessary to be rich in order to be a tourist. More and more people leave their own __6__ for travel in foreign lands. The tourist industry has become very important: a United Nations office even ___7___ figures of the visitors received by all countries. The total of those figures, for 1958 ___8___ 55 million tourists: ten years later the total was three times that number. At present ___9__ these tourists go to countries in Europe, Italy usually attracts most tourists and has two million beds for them.

_____10___ go to Switzerland in large numbers in winter and in summer, and sun-lovers from northern lands crowd to the shores of Mediterranean Sea.