- •1. Explain the meaning of the following phrases from the text?
- •Memorize Dialogue 1.
- •Work in pairs. Make your own dialogue and find out about each other's holiday plans.
- •1. Give English equivalents and use them in sentences of your own:
- •1. Phonetic Drill. Transcribe and pronounce correctly:
- •2. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •4. Fill in appropriate words (consult the list of synonyms)
- •6. Give all the derivatives to the words:
- •7. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give your reasons. Start with the following phrases:
- •8. Insert words or word combinations given in brackets below.
- •9. Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbs.
- •Write a summary of the text "The British on Holiday"
- •Here are a number of different things which people like to do on holiday:
- •3. Translate into English:
- •Holiday-making
- •7. Give synonyms to the following words:
- •8. Form antonyms with the help of negative prefixes:
- •2. Develop the dialogue into a monologue on the part of the traveller.
- •3. Give a summary of the information.
- •Going on a trip
- •Remember:
- •1. Choose the right word. Translate sentences into Russian.
- •2. Explain the following expressions. Reproduce the situations in which the sentences with these words occur in the text.
- •3. Give Russian equivalents for the following:
- •4. Write English equivalents for the following words and phrases. Use them in sentences of your own.
- •5. Give synonyms from the text to the following words and phrases:
- •4. Speak individually or arrange a discussion on the following:
- •Booking rail tickets
- •Text work
- •Text work
- •1. Give Russian equivalents to the following:
- •2. Form antonyms to the following words with the help of prefixes.
- •3. Give a summary of the information.
- •Information (1)
- •Information (2)
- •3. Give synonyms to the following words:
- •4. Do a bit of translator work. Compare your translation with those of your classmates.
- •5. Match the words with their definitions below:
- •6. Complete this conversation filling in the gaps with the proper prepositions.
- •8. Recall and act out the conversation you ever had with:
- •Would you like to go on this kind of holiday? Discuss your answer with your partner.
- •8. Supply one of the following verbs:
- •1. Give a good literary translation close to the text. The journey of a night time
- •2. Read the letter and use the notes to complete the reply.
- •Notes for reply:
- •3. Translate the following into English:
- •4. Write an essay "Travelling by train has a lot of advantages".
- •1. Look at this list of words to do with rail travel. Check that you know what they mean.
- •Heat and coal-dust across india by train
- •Read the article "via Rail Canada" and make a list of all the different facilities mentioned.
- •Read the text again and say whether the following statements are true or false.
- •Via rail canada
- •The Canadian
- •Your accommodation
- •Discounted fares
- •With a partner take turns to be a tourist and a sncf agent. Tourist
- •Sncf agent
- •10. In pairs, take turns to role-play the conversation between a travel agent (selling the trip you planned above) and a customer (asking about the holiday-route, itinerary, and facilities).
- •1. What would you do if:
- •Project work
- •1. Phonetic Drill. Transcribe and pronounce correctly:
- •2. Give Russian equivalents of:
- •3. Give English equivalents of:
- •4. Give synonyms to the following words:
- •5. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give your reasons.
- •6. Fill in the blanks with prepositions:
- •7. Give all the derivatives to the words:
- •10. Retell "Making the Best of Journeys" on the part of George.
- •Booking air tickets
- •Travelling by air
- •1. Find the following numbers in the texts. What do they refer to? Make a sentence about each number.
- •3. Using the information given in the text, complete each of the following sentences.
- •5. Look at this diagram indicating basic airport procedure and layout.
- •1. Read the information and then answer the questions.
- •2. Give a summary of the information.
- •At the check-in desk
- •1. Look at the list of items in the table. Discuss which of them you think travellers are allowed to bring into the countries indicated. Fill in the first two columns.
- •3. Imagine you are a uk Customs officer. How would you answer these questions?
- •Travelling to the uk from outside the eu
- •250Cc/ml of toilet water
- •4. Insert words or word combinations given in the brackets.
- •5. Flight attendants have a procedure for the different things they need to do on a flight. Look at this list of things and put them in the correct order.
- •6. At which stage would you hear the flight attendant si the following?
- •8. Now read the interview with Kim Whittle to find out if your predictions were correct.
- •9. An important part of the selection procedure for an airline is to understand the psychology of an applicant. Here are ten typical questions from a pre-interview questionnaire.
- •10. Match the questions to the multiple-choice options below.
- •Imagine you are the airline's Personnel Officer. Which of these answers would indicate a good applicant? Which would worry you? How would you deal with these worries in an interview?
- •Retell "Victoria's First Flight" in the Is' person singular on the part of Victoria.
- •Victoria's first flight
- •Read the leaflet "Mackenzie Airport Welcomes First-time Fliers". It describes the procedure for passengers at an airport. Fill in the gaps with words or phrases from the list below.
- •1. Give a good literally translation. Airport paralyzed
- •2. You are flying to Belfast on a business trip, and you have been given this form. Fill in the answer on the form. Embarkation card
- •3. Write some announcements of your own. Use the notes below.
- •4. Translate from Russian into English:
- •6. Add two or three sentences of your own to each of the following statements.
- •1. Have you ever travelled in an airplane?
- •2. Which job would you like most — pilot, flight attendant, or air-traffic controller? Which is the most difficult?
- •3. How many of these pieces of advice/recommendations are worth following? Why?
- •5. Discuss the following:
- •International travel
- •1. Comprehension questions:
- •2. Work in groups and discuss the following:
- •3. Think about your own town or city and discuss the questions:
- •1. International Airport. Read the information about Tokyo Narita Airport. Answer the following questions:
- •Tokyo narita
- •2. Read the dialogues below and make up a short text for a guide book about John f. Kennedy Airport in New York.
- •3. Airport Codes Quiz
3. Give synonyms to the following words:
Railway, carriage, passenger, a ticket inspector, charge.
4. Do a bit of translator work. Compare your translation with those of your classmates.
At the Station: Signs and Notices
Information Hairdresser
Waiting-room Telegraph
Registration Postage Stamps
Departure Money Orders
Arrivals Parcels
Cloak-room Service Bureau
To the trains Trunk Calls Passengers are not wanted here Refreshments
5. Match the words with their definitions below:
a single ticket — a ticket which allows you to travel any number of times during the stated period.
a return ticket — money that you are asked to pay.
a season ticket — a ticket which allows you to travel to a place but not back again.
a through train — something arranged for travellers.
service — it allows you to travel there and back.
charge — a train going from one place direct to an-
other when passengers do not have to change from one train to another.
6. Complete this conversation filling in the gaps with the proper prepositions.
Passenger: Porter, will you see ... my luggage, please?
Porter: Where .., sir?
Passenger: I'm going ... the 10 o'clock train ... Glasgow. Will you have this trunk labelled and put... the luggage-van? The suitcase and bag can go ... the luggage-rack.
Porter: Right, sir. What class?
Passenger: First. Try and find me a corner seat ... a smoker,
facing the engine, if you can. Porter: Have you got your ticket yet, sir? Passenger: Not yet. Where's the booking-office? Porter: Come me and I'll show you. Here it is. I'll
meet you ... the platform. Passenger: Which platform is it? Porter: Number 8, ... there.
* * *
Passenger: One first... Glasgow, please.
Clerk: Single or return?
Passenger: Single... do I have to change, anywhere?
Clerk: No, no change, it's a through train.
Passenger: Thank you.
* * *
Porter: Here you are, sir. I've found a corner seat next ...the corridor. Your carnage is next... the dining-car,and you can order lunch when the attendant comes along. Passenger: What time do we get... Glasgow? Porter: You're due to arrive ... 6.15. Passenger: Thank you. Here you are. Porter: Thank you, sir. 1 hope you'll have a comfortable
journey.
7. Give all the derivatives to the words:
To commute, to call, regular, to climb.
8. Recall and act out the conversation you ever had with:
a) a booking-office;
b) a porter.
You may want to mention the following: To travel on business/for pleasure; to book a seat on/for a train; to reach one's destination; to make a trip by railway; to
go on a guided tour; a through train; a return ticket; an upper berth.
9. 1) Read the passage carefully. Then write four sentences about the text. Try to use your words. Make some of the sentences true and some of them false. Then test your partner.
Underline all the adjectives in the passage and make sure you understand them. You may use a dictionary.
Would you like to go on this kind of holiday? Discuss your answer with your partner.
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Glamour, romance and excitement; what better recipe could there be for a journey across Europe?
Victoria Station, ten o'clock, the morning of your own historic departure on the most glamorous and romantic of trains.
At eleven sharp, the train moves off to an almost audible sigh of pleasure. There's a glass of champagne in front of you, and the adventure has begun: this marvellous, memorable journey.
As the train travels through the pretty, undulating Kent countryside, lunch is served. The quality of the food and service on this great train is almost as famous as the train itself
All too soon, it seems, come the spectacular views of Folkestone's picturesque fishing port as the train heads out towards the cross-channel ferry. Yet only a two-hour sail — spent in the luxury of the Venice Simplon-Orient Expresslounge — separates you from the fresh delights of the continental train... J
TEXT 4
FANNY CLAYTON AWAKES TO LIFE
With an effort Luke Fitzwilliam averted his eyes from the landscape outside the railway-carriage window and settled down to a perusal of the papers he had just bought. Shortly afterward the train slowed down and finally stopped. Luke looked out the window. They were in a large-looking station with many platforms. He caught sight of a bookstall some way up the platform with a placard: "Derby results". Luke opened the door, jumped out and ran towards the book-stall. A moment later he was staring with a broad grin at a few smudged lines in the stop press. "Derby Results Jujube the II, Mazeppa, Clarigold".
He folded the paper, still grinning to himself and turned back — to face emptiness. In the excitement of Jujube the II's victory, his train had slipped out of the station unnoticed by him.
"When the devil did that train go out?" he demanded of a gloomy-looking porter.
The latter replied:
"What train? There has been no train since 3.14."
"There was a train just now. I got out of it. The boat express."
The porter replied austerely:
"The boat-express don't stop anywhere till London."
"But it did," Luke assured him. "I got out of it."
"No stop anywhere till London," repeated the porter immovably.
"It stopped at this very platform and I got out of it, I tell you."
Faced by facts, the porter changed his ground. "You didn't ought to have done," he said reproachfully. "It don't stop here."
"But it did."
"That was signal, that was. Signal against it. It didn't what you'd call 'stop'."
"I'm not so good at these fine distinctions as you are," said Luke. "The point is, what do I do next?"
The porter, a man of slow ideas, repeated reproachfully:" You didn't ought to have got out."
"We'll admit that," said Luke. "What I'm trying to get at is, what do you, a man experienced in the service of the railway company, advise me to do now?"
"You're asking what you'd better do?"
"That," said Luke, "is the idea. There are, I presume, trains that stop, really officially stop, here?"
"Reckon," said the porter, "You'd best go on by the 4.25."
"If the 4.25 goes to London," said Luke, "the 4.25 is the train for me."
Reassured on that point, Luke strolled up and down the platform. A large board informed him that he was at Fenny Clayton Junction for Wychwood-under-Aste, and presently a train consisting of one carriage pushed backwards by an antiquated
little engine came slowly puffing in. Six or seven people alighted, and crossing over a bridge, came to join Luke on his platform. The gloomy porter suddenly awoke to life and began pushing about a large truck of crates and baskets, another porter I joined him and began to rattle milk cans. Fenny Clayton awoke to life.
At last with immense importance, the London train came in. The third-class carriages were crowded, and of first there were only three and each one contained a traveller or travellers.
Luke scrutinished each compartment. The first, a smoker, contained a gentleman of military aspect smoking a cigar. Luke passed on to the next one, which contained a third-looking genteel young woman, possibly a nursery governess, and an active-looking small boy of about three. Luke passed on quickly. The next door was open and the carriage contained one passenger, an elderly lady. She reminded Luke slightly of one of his aunts, his Aunt Mildred, who had courageously allowed him to keep a grass snake when he was ten years old. Aunt Mildred had been decidedly a good aunt as aunts go.
Luke entered the carriage and sat down.
After some five minutes of intense activity on the part of milk vans, luggage trucks and other excitements, the train moved slowly out of the station. Luke unfolded his paper and turned to such items of news as might interest a man who had already read his morning paper.
He did not hope to read it for long. Being a man of many aunts, he was fairly certain that the nice old lady in the corner did not propose to travel in silence to London.
He was right — a window that needed adjusting, a dropped umbrella — and the lady was telling him what a good train this was.
"Only an hour and ten minutes. That's very good, you know, very good indeed. Much better than the morning one. That takes an hour and forty minutes."
Luke murmured:
"Of course, not," and let his eyes drop ostentatiously to his paper. But it was of no avail. The flood went on.
"So I just made the best of a bad job and took the afternoon train instead, and, of course, it's a blessing in one way, it's not so crowded — not that it matters when one is travelling first
class. Of course, I don't usually do that. 1 mean I should consider it an extravagance, but really 1 was so upset — because you see, I'm going up on very important business and I wanted to think out exactly what 1 was going to say, just quietly, you know..." Luke repressed a smile.
"And when there are people you know travelling up to — well, one can't be unfriendly, so I thought just for once, the expense was quite permissible, though I do think nowadays there is so much waste and nobody saves or thinks of the future. One is sorry the seconds were ever abolished, it did make just that little difference."
(by A. Christie)
Comprehension questions:
1) Where was Mr. Fitzwilliam going by train? 2) What train was he going by? 3) Did he have to change trains or was he travelling by a through train? 4) Why did Mr. Fitzwilliam get out at Fenny Clayton? 5) Did Mr. Fitzwilliam see his train go out (pull out, leave) or had his train pulled out (gone out, left) without his noticing it? 6) Was Mr. Fitzwilliam upset over his bit of bad luck that he had been left behind or did he take it easy? 7) Did the boat-express usually stop at Fenny Clayton or did it pass the station without stopping? 8) Why, then, did the boat-express stop at Fenny Clayton that day? 9) How did Mr.Fitzwilliam know that he was at Fenny Clayton Junction? 10) Were the porter's sympathies with Mr. Fitzwilliam? 11) What train did Mr. Fitzwilliam board? 12) Did Mr. Fitzwilliam get a seat on the 4.25 train quite easily or was all accommodation reserved? 13) Did Mr. Fitzwilliam settle down in the first carriage he entered or in the next one? 14) In what way did Mr. Fitzwilliam propose to while away his time on the train? 15) Why was he sure the lady would try and draw him into a conversation? 16) Why did the lady think that the afternoon train was much better than the morning train? 17) Was the lady going up on some important business or just to spend the weekend with her sister's family? 18) Did the lady enjoy her journey or did she feel annoyed by Mr. Fitzwilliam's presence?
1. Give Russian equivalents:
Austere, ostentatious, an empty-looking station, to change ground, to be of no avail, a man of slow ideas, reassured on the point, Fenny Clayton Junction for Wychwood-under-Aste, came slowly puffing in, a genteel young woman, a gentleman of military aspect, a man of many aunts, to adjust a window.
2. Give English equivalents of:
Ехать первым (вторым) классом; отходить (от станции — о поезде); прибывать — подходить (о поезде); замедлить ход; сходить (с поезда); утренний (дневной) поезд; поезд, отходящий в 10.30; купе; паровоз; семафор; узловая станция.
3. Make "Fenny Clayton Awakes to Life" into dialogues
between a) Mr. Fitzwilliam and the porter, b) Mr. Fitzwil-liam and the lady.
Retell the text on the part of the porter.
A) Read "Conversations Overhead" and find in the text English counterparts to the following:
Билет; касса; камера хранения (на вокзале); багажный вагон; вагон-ресторан; вагон для курящих; полка для ручного багажа; платформа № 14; семафор; семафор открыт (закрыт); проводник (в поезде); ярлык (для багажа); наклейка на багаж; паровоз; книжный киоск; успевать на поезд.
В) Learn "Conversations Overhead" by heart and practise them.
CONVERSATIONS OVERHEAD
I
A: Come along, we are only just in time for the train.
B: Oh, no! We're all right: it doesn't go out for another twenty
minutes yet. A: I thought it went at 12.30.
В: No, not till 12.50.
A: Oh, that's all right! Have you got the tickets?
B: No, let's go along to the booking-office. 1 want a few magazines and newspapers, so we'll call at the bookstall on the way.
A: Yes, and I've left a bag in the cloakroom: I'll just slip along there and reclaim it while you get the tickets and newspapers.
B: Right — he! I'll meet you outside the left-luggage office in ten minutes' time.
II
C: I'm glad you are coming on my train: we can travel together. Have you a reserved seat? D: No, the train isn't very crowded and we'll get a seat quite
easily. Here's a porter; he can put our bags in the guard's van
and find us seats. Porter! Porter: Yes, sir. You want these bags to go into the luggage van
of the 12.50. Are the bags labelled, sir? C: Yes, there's a tie-on label on mine and a stick-on label on
my friend's. Get us two corner seats in a first-class smoker. Porter: Very good, sir. Better come along at once; the train is
filling up quickly. Platform 14. D: Ah! Here we are. How do you like to sit, facing the engine
or with your back to it? C: I don't mind either way, but if it's all the same to you I'd
prefer to sit the way the train is going. D: That will suit me perfectly. I'm rather fussy about not sitting
in a draught, so I prefer to sit with my back to the engine.
Ill
A: Well, here we are, ready for the journey.
B: Put this small bag on the rack above your head, will you? I'll
just go along the corridor and see where the dining-car is and
book for the first service; I'm hungry. к Right, we shan't be long now, the signals are down and the
guard is blowing the whistle. He's waving his flag. We're off,
now.
6. Supply the missing adverbs and prepositions:
1) What train are you going ...? 2) it's a non-stop train ...Bournemouth. 3) I'm Yakutsk... the midnight train. 4) The signal is up, ... the train. When the line is clear and the train is due to start, it will be ... . 5) I'll meet you ... the booking-office. 6) Most of the passengers got... the train ... Tula. 7) The train began to slow ... and finally stopped. 8) We are due ... London ... six twenty. 9) At last the Moscow train came ... .
10) He is going ... a journey ... the Crimea. 11) He took the rack the things the porter had put ... them. 12) I bought a magazine ... the bookstall to read ... the train. 13) Does the 5.20 still run ... Tallinn ... odd days? 14) The train doesn't leave ...another 10 minutes. 15) He lowered the window and waved his hand ... a porter. J 6) We were only just... time ... the train, 17)How do you like to sit, facing the engine or ... your back .,. it?18)... the seats there is a rack ... light luggage, put the parcel...it. 19) He is going ... Rostov ... very important business. 20) Wewere walking ... and ... the platform. 21) He settled a corner seat. 22) When I travel... pleasure I prefer to go ... train or ship. 23) The train stopped ... the platform and the passengers got it. 24) Are you really all right... the journey? 25) Luggage for inland travelling is not registered ... England. You mustsee that the porter labels it and puts it... the guard's van ... you ... the end of your journey you must go ... the guard's van and see it taken out.
7. Supply words of the root "travel". Translate the sentences into Russian:
1) I was introduced to a young man ... to Paris. 2) She had decided that air ... was really rather boring and would not... by plane. 3) What did your ... expenses come to? 4) From outside came shrill distant notes of train whistles bringing the yearning for.... 5) She was like an elder sister to me, taking charge of... arrangements and tickets. 6) Are you fond of...? 7) He has ... all over Europe. 8) What a nuisance to ... alone with a party of children! 9) The long-distance coach was ... at a high speed. 10) I've done a certain amount of... and of all the means of travel I prefer... by air. 11)1 came by air. It's a wonderful way of.... 12) With a motor-car you can ... quickly and cheaply, but for
long journeys it's rather tiring. 13) ... by sea, is nowadays very comfortable and enjoyable.