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Control work N 6. Topic TRAVELLING
Its time to start thinking about holidays again. Planning lazy days in the sun, by sea, picnicking in grassy, fairytale forests or marvelling at the most breathtaking scenery youve ever seen. Or, perhaps, you want a get-away-from-it-all holiday in that little place you found last year & fell in love with.
Nowadays tourism has become a highly organized business. There are express trains, luxurious cruisers, cars & jet airliners; all of which provide you with comfort & security. What choice to make? What route to take? These & other problems will be discussed in this Unit.
1 .Read & do the exercises given below.
Some may be fond of travelling. For me to travel is to go through a gradual state of nerve wrecking.
Once my wife & I decided to take a holiday trip. So I went to an agency to book a cabin on a ship. While I was away my wife was supposed to be packing. To my astonishment it was only half done when I returned as my wife was in doubt whether to take a trunk or just a few suitcases to carry our things in.
It was no use urging her to hurry or to be ready at a certain time because she was not the person to be hurried or ordered about. To try to speed her up was to make her excited & badtempered.
With only an hour to spare, the packing to do & the city to cross, I could not but be impatient, so I simply began to throw the things into the suitcases without folding them. The suitcase nearly burst, but I was willing to burst a dozen suitcases to catch the train. I knew my wife would have to iron everything again. But I thought it would teach her not to put things off to the last moment. Within 20 minutes or so we were ready to go.
I immediately found a taxi which seemed almost too good to be true & requested the driver to hurry & get us to the station in time. How the taxidriver managed to get us to the station alive is difficult to understand because he drove at breakneck speed through the heavy traffic of the city. We got to the station, though strange to relate, quite safely to find the train still there & with a few minutes to spare. Some acquaintances were waiting on the platform to see us off, but we hardly had time to say hullo to them. We were almost the last passengers to arrive. This was no time for me to be genteel. Up went the mountain of luggage; down sank my wife in a corner, & away went the train.
In the compartment we were not the only ones to want to put our luggage on the racks. Our fellow passengers wanted to put theirs as well, only to find there had been no room left to speak of. It was enough to make anyone angry. When they tried to dump their suitcases in the corridor, the conductor would not have them do it. They tried to convince him that it was nothing to make a fuss about but he replied that corridors were to walk through, not to store luggage in. In the end the conductor calmed down. But the people were just bursting to tell us a thing or two.
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When we had to change station to go aboard the ship, my wife wanted me to carry all the luggage. She didnt want to waste money on porters when she had a strong, muscular husband to do it for her. But I had no desire to take the risk of breaking my back & so I went on strike. In the end my wife gave in.
It took the porter three trips to transfer it all & when he had finished he had no breath left to speak of. & the beauty of it was that she had us drag all that luggage only to leave half of it unopened when we did get there.
Notes on the Text.
To travel a) to go from place to place, e.g. to travel round the world for years;
b) to pass, go or move through (a place or distance), e.g.:
How fast does light travel?
To travel light to travel without much luggage.
Travel n the act of travelling, a general word for going from one place tp another. The nouns travel & travels usually suggest travelling for long distance & long periods of time, e.g.:
He came home after years of foreign travel.
Travel agency office which arranges tickets / hotel reservations, etc. for you when you are making a journey.
COMPARE:
Journey n the distance covered & the time spent in going from one place to another, e.g.:
I go to work by train & the journey takes 50 minutes.
Voyage n is similar, but is used mainly of sea journeys (or sometimes journeys in space), e.g.:
Ive never made a seavoyage.
Flight n a journey by plane, e.g.:
Take some books to read on the flight / voyage / journey.
Cruise n a seavoyage for pleasure, e.g.:
Id love to go on a cruise.
Trip n a short journey from one place to another, e.g.:
Did you enjoy your trip to the country?
Tour n a) a journey during which several places are visited, e.g. a tour round Europe; b) a short trip to or through a place, e.g.:
We went on a guided tour round the castle.
Hitchhiking n travelling by getting free rides in passing automobiles & walking between rides, e.g.:
Hitchhiking is a new way of travelling which gives one a chance to see much without spending anything.
Remember:
to book a cabin on a ship to drive at breakneck speed
to go aboard the ship to get to the station
to arrive in / at to see smb. off
to take a holiday trip to change stations
VOCABULARY PRACTICE.
Choose the right word. Translate the sentences into Russian.
a) travel, travels, to travel, travelling
1. His mind... to his childhood. 2. The news... fast. 3. This is a book of....4. His eyes... over the picture. 5. He loves reading... books. 6. He is fond of.... 7. Nowadays... has become a highly organized business.
b) trip, cruise, tour
1. Have you ever taken a holiday... along the Black Sea coast or down the Volga? 2. When travelling you have to give special thought, not only to your route, but to what you wear & eat during your.... 3. What clothes would you suggest to a young (old) passengers on...? 4. The National Theatre is on... in the North.5. It must be the birds first.. from the nest.
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2).Write English equivalents for the following words & phrases. Use them in sentences of your own.
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3).Give Russian equivalents for the following:
ones name
oneself
to forget } ones troubles
ones disagreements
a letter for somebody
the window open
to leave } the tickets behind
it at that
4).Give synonyms from the text to the following words & phrases.
To make up ones mind; to persuade; to bother ones head; to spend money; to continue; closed.
