II. Read and translate the text: Travelling.

Modern life is impossible without travelling. True, we often get tired of the same surroundings and daily routine. Hence, some relaxation is essential to restore our mental and physical resources. That is why the best place of relaxation is the one where you have never been before. And it is by means of travelling that you get to that place.

Everyone understands traveling in his own way. Some people consider trips to new towns and countries offered by different tourist firms to be the best way to travel. These package tours are for the laziest. The others prefer walking tours and tourism. There is nothing more beautiful for them than walking in some pinewood, or rowing down the river in a boat, or even riding a bicycle and enjoying the landscape. There are also people who are fond of mountain climbing. And the view, which opens from it, is just magnificent.

Millions of people all over the world travel to see other countries and continents, modern cities and the ruins of ancient towns, they travel to enjoy picturesque places, or just for a change of scene. It is always interesting to discover new things, different ways of life, to meet different people, to try different food.

5. Now there are 273 London underground stations with the lines covering 404 km.

6. Sometimes Londoners nickname the London Underground “the subway”.

7. There are 19 underground lines in London.

IV. Replace the pronouns with the nouns in the brackets.

1. She visited the National Gallery in 1838.

2. One can see it in the Science Museum.

3. It is most loved by children and their fathers.

4. You may feel it in the Geological Museum.

5. It helped to understand the Egyptian picture writing.

(Science museum, Apollo10, QueenVictoria, Rosetta Stone, earthquake)

V. Complete the sentences with one of the following words.

1. The London Transport Museum has lots of restored trams, buses and Underground trains which you can … .

2. The first London … started running in 1829, between Paddington and the City.

3. In the 1900’s London … were introduced.

4. London … came from “cabriolets” /a goat’s leap.

5. They are traditionally … .

6. To get a taxi license … have to memorize hundreds of routes and be tested.

7. These tests are called “…” and take two years to be passed.

(Running, black, popular, history, double-deckers, bus, drivers, board, taxicabs, the Knowledge)

Lesson 34.

Topic: Cultural Programme.

1. Read and translate the following text: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Those who live in the country like to go to a big city and spend their time visiting museums and art galleries, looking at shop windows and dinning at exotic restaurants. City dwellers usually like a quiet holiday by the sea or in the mountains, with nothing to do but walk and bathe and laze in the sun.

Most travellers and holiday-makers take a camera with them and take pictures of everything that interest them – the sights of a city, old churches and castles, views of mountains, lakes, valleys, waterfalls, forests; different kinds of trees, flowers and plants; animals and birds.

There are also exists a very interesting and cheap kind of travelling—hitch-hiking. It is very popular among young people. And it is not surprising—one can get a real adventure full of romantics. And there are also people who like exotic kinds of travelling, like travelling on a balloon. But only bold people can risk and surrender themselves wholly to the will of the wind.

If we are fond of travelling, we see and learn a lot of things that we can never see or learn at home, though we may read about them in books and newspapers, and see pictures of them on TV. The best way to study geography is to travel, and the best to get to know and understand the people is to meet them in their own homes.

Speaking about different types of traveling, one should say that any of them is a good method of having a rest and spending some new unusual life.