III. Reading comprehension

1. Answer the Questions

1. What country are the Chodkiewicz going to?

2. Where does Karl want to go?

3. What place does Anita have in mind?

4. Are Ayers Rock and the Great Barrier Reef far apart?

5. How many tours does the agent offer?

6. How long are the tours?

7. What cities do the tours visit?

8. Which of the tours goes from Melbourne directly to Alice Springs?

9. Does the tour program include the places that Anita and Karl want to see?

10. What does the price of the All Australia tour include?

11. What are the meal options?

12. Why does the agent recommend choosing the half-board option?

13. Which of the tours is longer?

14. Which of the tours gives the tourists more time in Melbourne?

15. What do the clients finally choose?

2. Read the statements and say whether they are true (t)or false (f). Correct the false sentences

1. Anita and Karl want to visit Austria.

2. The agent doesn’t have any idea what to offer to Anita and Karla.

3. The clients are offered three tours to choose from.

4. The tours that the agent offers start from Melbourne.

5. Both the tours visit Adelaide.

6. Anita and Karl have different places of interest in mind.

7. The tours offered by the agent are a week long.

8. The All Australia tour is shorter than the Australia’s Best tour.

9. The All Australia tour price includes meals.

10. A half-board option is more convenient than a full-board option.

11. A half-board option doesn’t include dinner.

12. Accommodation is not included in the price of the All Australia tour.

13. The clients do not know what tour to choose.

14. The agent can’t help the clients.

15. The clients will come to the agency again.

3. Choose the correct word or word combination

1. Karl and Anita want to visit … .

   a) Ayers Rock and the Great Barrier Reef	c) Cairns and Alice Springs
   b) Adelaide and Melbourne	d) Sydney and Darwin

2. The agent offers … tours.

   a) one	c) two
   b) three	d) no

3. The price of the All Australia tour includes… .

   a) all travel expenses, meals and bed	c) meals and travel expenses
   b) meals, flight and bed	d) meals and bed

4. The half-board option allows you to choose … .

   a) when and where to have lunch	c) when and where to have dinner
   b) when and where to have breakfast	d) when and where to spend the night

5. The All Australia tour is … … longer than the Australia’s Best tour.

   a) thirteen days	c) nineteen days
   b) one week	d) six days

6. The Australia’s Best tour goes from Melbourne direct to … .

   a) Adelaide	c) Ayers Rock
   b) Sydney	d) Alice Springs

7. The Australia’s Best tour lasts almost …

   a) two weeks	c) a month
   b) a week	d) nineteen days

8. The clients choose … .

a) The Australia’s Best tour	c) none
b) The All Australia tour	d) a tour to another country