9. Work in pairs. Continue the dialogue between a travel counsellor and a customer at the tour agency according to the logical scheme. When you are ready, join up with another pair and compare your variants.
-Welcome, sir! Can I be helpful in any way?
-I’d like to go on a tour to … (Great Britain, Italy, Egypt etc.) …
Scheme:
1. asking for information-offering something
2. regretting and declining an offer of something- asking about preferences
3. saying what you prefer-advising someone
4. saying you are curious
Formulas:
| Asking for information Could you tell me … (please)? Will you kindly tell me …, (please)? Can you help me? Do you happen to know …? | Offering smth Would you like…? Could (can) I offer you …? What would you say to…? Won’t you have…? | Regretting It’s a (great) pity … I regret … I’m sorry but … |
| Declining an offer of smth Not for me, thanks I won’t, thanks Not this time, thanks I’m not sure I can That’s very kind, but I won’t… | Asking about preferences Do you prefer … or …? Would you rather … or…? Which would you prefer … or…? Which seems better to you? Do you find … or …more enjoyably? | Advising someone I wouldn’t recommend (advise) … You’d better not … I think you should … Why don’t you … I’d … if I were you, … |
10. Continue each piece by adding a few sentences in full accordance with the speakers’ viewpoints.
Andrew: The best way to spend holidays is travelling. I believe holidays should be a change of scene. If you live in a noisy city surrounding you’d prefer quiet and peaceful holidays in the country, by the sea, in the hills. On the other hand if you are a country-dweller…
Boris: Many people prefer package holidays.With it you’ll have some of the usual holiday problems settled long before your holidays start. A travel company will organize it for you beforehand. It will book ticket for the flight, make reservations of the hotel, hire a bus or a car to take you to the airport and back. Breakfasts will also be included. And they will offer you a package of sightseeings. All you have to do is…
Alice: There are serious grounds to believe that the history books will describe the present period of human civilization as the time when people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains. There were lifts and escalators in all buildings to prevent people from walking. And the most surprising thing is that they didn’t use their legs even when they went on holidays…
Irene: Travelling is adventure, and adventure is necessary for all of us. It keeps us from growing stale and old, it gives us the movement and change which are necessary to our life. One of the aims of travel is to go in search of beauty. Yet even more valuable to the traveller is the knowledge which he gets of his fellow men by going among people of different characters and ways of life.The proverb says: “So many countries, so many customs”. And then there’s for the traveller the great joy of coming home again…
