XII. Составьте диалоги, употребив следующие слова и выражения:

BUYING A TICKET

А В

one first to D. single or return

to change a through train

to arrive to be due ...

What's the fare? ...shillings a dining-car

TALKING TO A PORTER

А В

Porter Yes, sir.

see to my luggage to travel

to Glasgo luggage

to travel first class which class?

two suit-cases to leave

platform to hurry

XIII. Закончите следующие ситуации:

1. The train arrived in London at 8 p.m. When I got off the train I saw that no one had come to meet me. So I...

2. Yesterday we came to the station to see off our friend. When we came up to this carriage the attendant asked my friend to show him his ticket. But my friend found that he had no ticket. I said ...

3. Last Sunday my friend and I decided to go to the country. He said that at 9 o'clock he would be waiting for me at the railway station. But at 8 o'clock in the morning when I was about to leave the house the telephone rang and ...

4. My friend was coming back to Moscow from Sochi. At one of the stations he got off the train to send a cable to his wife. When he came out he saw that his train had already left...

XIV. Перескажите следующие тексты:

SEEING A FRIEND OFF

Three men were sitting at a bar near a railway-station. They had asked the I railway porter to tell them when the train was due. Some time later the porter I came to say that the train was coming in. "Oh," said the men, "we have time for I just one more drink." They took another drink and hurried out, but their train had I already left.

They went back to the bar. An hour later the second train arrived, and the same thing happened. They missed the train again. Two hours later the porter came and told them that the last train was due in five minutes. Again the men waited for a few minutes to have one more drink and when they came out the train had already started. Two of the men caught the train. But the third man missed the train and walked back to the bar.

"By the way," the barman asked him, when he came in, "what town are your friends going to?"

"I don't know, where they are going to," the man answered. "They just came down to the station to see me off."

a bar бар; to have a drink выпить; the same thing то же самое;

to happen случаться; again опять, снова; to start отправляться;

a barman бармен

TOO MUCH FOR THEM

Some young men were travelling in a smoking compartment of a railway carriage. Just as the train was about to start the door suddenly opened, and an old woman came into their compartment. The young men wanted to have the compartment for themselves and they said: "This is a smoking carriage." But the woman did not listen to them. She came into their compartment and sat down. They decided to smoke as much as they could and hoped that she would have to leave the carriage soon. There was a lot of smoke in the compartment and the young men began to feel bad.

In a quarter of an hour to their great surprise the woman took out a pipe and began smoking too.

The young men had to change their compartment very soon.

to start отправляться; for themselves для себя; a pipe трубка