1. What is more convenient: to travel by plane or by train?

2. Do you take a lot of luggage with you?

3. Is it difficult to get a ticket?

4. Do you take food with you or do you like to have meals in the dining-car?

5. Is it convenient to use left-luggage room?

6. Do you come to the railway station beforehand or just a few minutes before the train is leaving?

Left-wing	Right-wing	Middle-of-the-road
Popular: Daily Mirror	Popular: The Sun; The Telegraph; The Times	Popular: Today
Quality: Morning Star	Quality: The Daily Mail, The Daily Express	Quality: The Guardian

Apart from these there are very many regional local newspapers.

A feature of many urban street corners is the newspaper stand, where passers-by can buy a local or evening newspaper. The street vendors often shout out dramatic headlines from the papers to attract buyers. Street stalls are not so common in small towns or villages, where the newspapers are either delivered to those who have subscribed to them or can be bought from newsagents.

There are also Sunday papers in Great Britain. Popular Sunday papers were first published in the 19^th century and were aimed at people, who could not afford more expensive daily papers. Almost all the papers published in Britain on Sundays are national ones. The quality Sunday papers devote large sections to literature and arts, business and sport, and have long feature articles which explore specific subjects in depth. Sunday papers are traditionally very popular with the British. They can mostly be described like their daily equivalents – thus, The Mail on Sunday is similar to The Daily Mail only bigger. The ‘quality Sundays’ such as The Sunday Times or The Observer are enormous and can easily take the whole day to read! There are different sections so members of the family can divide the whole thing into smaller parts to read. There are colour supplements, which are highly illustrated magazines with a few stories and a great many advertisements, and then news, business, finance and arts sections too.

The ‘popular’ press keeps their very best and juiciest scandal stories about models, pop stars, politicians or the Royal Family until Sunday, when more people have more time to read them.

The idea of the democratic press is rather controversial in British. Sixteen London newspapers are owned by five groups of proprietors. These groups also own a large number of provincial newspapers. The owners of these newspapers have an almost unlimited power to form the opinion of the reading public.

State whether the following sentences are true or false.

1. The press in Great Britain is truly democratic.

2. There are newspapers of the national and local circulation.

7. Have you ever been late for your train?

Lesson 5.

Topic: Travelling.

Active Vocabulary

Quay набережна, причал

to moor швартуватися

gangway трап

deck палуба

forward носова частина судна

aft кормова частина судна

amidship середина судна

harbour порт, гавань

to be sea-sick страждати від морської хвороби