Read the dialogue:
Immigration officer: Good afternoon, sir. Can I have your passport and lending card?
Mr. Watanabe: Yes, here you are.
Immigration officer: Thank you. So, youre from Japan?
Mr. Watanabe: Yes.
Immigration officer: Where have you just come from?
Mr. Watanabe: From Japan.
Immigration officer: So, you flew from Tokio?
Mr. Watanabe: No, from Dusseldorf.
Immigration officer: Ah, I see. Youre from Japan, but youve just come from Dusseldorf. OK and how long will you be in Britain, Mr. Watanabe?
Mr. Watanabe: For one week.
Immigration officer: and what is the purpose of your visit?
Mr. Watanabe: Im here on business.
Immigration officer: Thats fine, sir. Thank you. Enjoy your visit.
Words and expressions:
1. at customs 9. to fill in a customs declaration
2. goods to declare 10. commercial samples
3. nothing to declare 11. to have an invoice
4. to have more than the allowance 12. to go through customs
5. to have excess items 13. to be on business or for pleasure
6. to pay duty on the excess 14. to open the case
7. to fill in a customs declaration 15. to have an invoice
8. commercial samples
Read the article.
I cant travel without
Patrick Lichfield,
The photographer, never goes far without the Olympus Pearlcorder dictating machine which lets him catch up with his correspondence wherever he is. The tiny tapes are either posted to his secretary, Felicity, or he gives them to someone to bring back. The quality is very good but there are often some interesting back-ground noises.
Mel Calman, the cartoonist, jokes about filling his suitcase with tranquillisers and three different kinds of toothbrushes after recent, expensive dental treatment, but it is his diary and sketch-book that are always with him when he is on the move. I dont keep a diary except when Im away. I start a new one each trip now since I lost irreplaceable notes on two previous trips on a bus in the States.
Richard Branson, who recently launched Virgin Atlantic Airways, believes in traveling light. San-tan lotion for my nose and my notebooks which are my lifeline. But I will always sling in a pack of cards. I love a game of cards, particularly bridge, but Im not a gambler.
Barry Norman, the film critic, who never travels anywhere without his credit card. The days of anyone being stranded abroad are now over. I remember once, before credit cards were common, the Daily Mail sent me to Italy at a moments notice. It was a bank holiday, I had no money and the banks were shut. There I was in Milan on a beautiful sunny day sitting in my hotel because it was the only place I could eat or drink because I could sign for it.
Frank Muir, the TV scriptwriter, and humorist, never sets off on a journey without packing his Swiss army penknife. It does everything, he says. It has about 140 things that can come out. It opens bottles, gets things out of horses hooves, it has scissors, screwdrivers. I never go anywhere without it and I have never used it.
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Answer the following questions:
1. Who likes to take as little luggage as possible?
2. Who likes to keep a record of his travels?
3. Who takes something he hasnt tested?
4. Which two people seem to take their work with them when they travel?
5. Which two people take something to avoid bad experiences theyve had in the
past?
6. Who takes the strangest thing, in your opinion?
7. Who takes the most useful thing, in your opinion?
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