19. Role play.

Student A	Student В
You are manager. You need to fly on business to London next week. Call the airline's agent and re­serve your tickets. Find out the in­formation about schedules and prices.	1. You are an airline ticket agent. Receive a call from a customer. Use real information.
2. You've reserved a flight to Munich next Friday, but your plans changed. Call the airline. Change the date of your flight.	2. You are an airline ticket agent. Receive a call from a customer: Use real information.
3. You are in the lobby of the airport. Suddenly you hear an announce­ment that your flight is delayed. Find out why there is a delay and how long you are going to wait. Ask what the airline is going to do about meals and hotel accommo­dations if the plane is delayed for a long time.	3. You are a host/hostess of Trans World Airlines. The flight LI 15 to London is delayed due to the heavy fog in London. If the weather doesn't change for better in an hour the flight will be redi­rected to Manchester and the Air­lines will provide free shuttle to London or a hotel for those who won't want to go straight to Lon­don the same day. Explain the in­formation to passengers.

Swap the roles.

DIALOGUE 2

Read, memorize and dramatize the dialogue. Find the meaning of the underlined words and phrases from the context and translate them.

AT THE CHECK-IN COUNTER

Good morning. Your ticket and your passport, please. Here you are.

Do you want a window seator anaisle seat? An aisle seat, please.

Put your luggage on the scales. Is it your only bag? Yes, it is.

We have 20 kilos luggage allowanceon bothdomestic and international flights. Your bag is 2 kilosoverweight.Youhave to payexcess luggage charge. Oh, really? But it's only 2 kilos. I know, sir. That's the rule. $5.30, please. All right.

Here's your receipt, your ticket and yourboarding pass, your passport and yourluggage claim check.The flight will be boarding at Gate 56 in 5 minutes. Where is it?

Hostess:

Passenger:

Hostess:

Passenger:

Hostess:

Passenger:

Hostess:

Passenger Hostess: Passenger Hostess:

Passenger:

Hostess:

Passenger:

Just round the corner to your right. Eniov vour flight. Thank you very much.

22. Speak about your flying experience.

23. Explain why?

    1. Many people prefer flying to other means of transportation.

    2. Many people are afraid of flying.

24. Put the verbs in the right forms. Translate the story.

Yesterday afternoon I (go) to the airport to meet Pierre who (come) from Paris to spend a few days with me. I (arrive) at the airport at two O'clock, (go) to a waiting room and (sit) down. When it (announce) that the plane (be) an hour late, I (decide) to go for a walk, I (just, walk) away from the building, when I (see) an old friend coming towards me. We (talk) for a moment, then (go) to the bar, where we (have) a few drinks. Suddenly I (remember) Pierre. We (rush) to the information desk. I (tell) that the plane from Paris (arrive) 40 minutes earlier. 1 (hurry) out of the building, (get) into my car and (drive) away quickly. When I (arrive) home I (find) Pierre sitting on his suitcase outside my front door.

23. Translate into English.

• Доброе утро! Скажите, пожалуйста, есть ли рейс на Сток­гольм 25 октября?

• Да, есть два рейса — утром и вечером.

• Когда утренний рейс?

• В 6 часов утра.

• Нет, это слишком рано. У меня будет бессонная ночь, если Я полечу этим самолетом. Когда вечерний рейс?

• В 8 часов вечера.

• Когда самолет прибывает в Стокгольм?

• В 10 часов.

• Это время меня устраивает. Есть ли билеты на этот рейс?

• Да, есть несколько билетов первого класса.

• Пожалуйста, один билет туда и обратно. Я возвращаюсь 30 октября. Хотя, нет, я не уверен, сделайте обратный билет с откры­той датой.

26. Write an essay on the topic "My Flying Experience".

TEXT 2

Read and translate the text.

Vocabulary

airline — авиакомпания

jet — реактивный самолет

flight — полет, рейс

non-stop — беспосадочный

airfield — летное поле

runway — взлетно-посадочная полоса

wheels— шасси

to take off— взлетать

food truck — грузовик с продуктами

to reel — кружиться, качаться, шататься

entire — полностью

rough — резкий, ненастный, бурный, опасный

snowbound — застрял в снегу

schedule — расписание

delay — задержка

to cancel — отменить

to fail to do — не смочь что-то сделать

to exhaust — истощить(ся)

TWA (Trans World Airlines) — название авиакомпанииair traffic control — командно-диспетчерский пунктtraffic — поток, движениеto adjoin — прилегатьroute — маршрут

to orbit — вращаться, летать вокругnear — близко, рядомfuel — топливоlean — худощавый

powerhouse of disciplined energy — удивительно собранный и энер­гичныйto peer — всматриваться

maintenance — поддержание, содержание, обслуживание

sleeping quarters — комнаты отдыха

emergency — чрезвычайная ситуация

snow shift — здрасчистка снега

chart — таблица

motorized snowfighting equipment — снегоочистительные машиныirew — команда

ihovel — лопата, ковш, снегоразгребательliquor — алкогольные напиткиto drop by — заходить

Read and translate the text.

AIRPORT

6:30 P.M. (CST)

At half past six on a Friday evening in January, Lincoln Internation­alAirport, Illinois, was functioning, though with difficulty.

The airport was reeling — as was the entire Midwestern United States— from the roughest winter storm in half a dozen years. The storm hadlasted three days.

A United Air Lines food truck, loaded with two hundred dinners, was lostand probably snowbound somewhere on the airport perimeter. A iearch for the truck — in driving snow and darkness — had so far failed.

United's Flight III — a non-stop DC-8 for Los Angeles, which the foodtruck was to service — was already several hours behind schedule. Similar delays, for varying reasons, were affecting at least a hundred flightsOftwenty other airlines using Lincoln International.

On the airfield, runway three zero was out of use, blocked by an Aereo-Mexican jet — a Boeing 707 — its wheels deep in wet ground be­neath snow, near the runway's edge. Twohours of intensive effort had flailed to get the big jet moved. Now, Aereo-Mexican, having exhaustedItsown local resources, had appealed toTWAfor help.

Air Traffic Control, because of the loss of runway three zero, had in­stituted flow control procedures, limiting the volume of incoming traffic fromadjoining air route centers at Minneapolis, Cleveland, Kansas City, Indianapolis, and Denver. Despite this, twenty incoming flights were orbiting, some nearing low fuel limits.

In the main passenger terminal, chaos predominated. Terminal wait­ing areas were crowded with thousands of passengers from delayed or Canceled flights. Baggage, in piles, was everywhere.

The wonder was, Mel Bakersfeld thought, that anything was continu­ing to operate at all.

Mel, airport general manager — lean, noisy and a powerhouse of dis­ciplined energy — was standing by the Snow Control Desk, high in the control tower. He peered out into the darkness.

Maintenance snow crews were nearly exhausted. Within the past few hours several men had been ordered home, though they had already used sleeping quarters at the airport provided for just this kind of emergency.

At the Snow Control Desk near Mel, Danny Farrow — at other times an assistant airport manager, now snow shift supervisor — was calling Maintenance Snow Center by radiophone.

Danny was seated at the Snow Desk, which was not really a desk at all, but a wide, three-position console. In front of Danny and his two assistants — one on either side — was a battery of telephones and radi­os. Surrounding them were maps, charts, and bulletin boards recording the state and location of every piece of motorized snowfighting equip­ment, as well as men and supervisors. There was a separate board for banjo teams — moving crews with individual snow shovels.

Mel said, "That United flight finally took off, didn't it? Without food."

Danny Farrow answered without looking up. "I hear the captain put it to the passengers. Told them it'd take an hour to get another truck, that they had a movie and liquor aboard, and the sun was shining in California. Everybody voted to get the hell out. I would, too."

Tanya Livingston was a passenger relations agent for Trans America, and a special friend of Mel's.

In a note brought by messenger Tanya suggested that they should have coffee together. He would stop at his office first, then, on his way to the terminal — Mel thought — he would drop by Trans America to see her. The thought excited him.

By Authur Hailey

TEXT WORK

1. Pronounce correctly and transcribe. Consult the dictionary if

necessary.

Airport, though, entire, roughest, search, snowbound, somewhere, failed, flight, schedule, varying, airfield, Boeing 707, beneath, exhaust, resources, appeal, procedures, adjoining, route, chaos, disciplined, lean, maintenance, quarters, emergency, supervisor, bulletin boards, piece, snowfighting, banjo, crew, shovel, liquor, messenger, excited.

2. Answer the questions.

1. Why was Lincoln International Airport functioning with difficul­ty that Friday evening?

2. What happened to a United Air Lines food truck?

3. What was the result of the search for the truck?

4. What happened to the United's non-stop flight for Los Angeles?

5. What was wrong with the runway three zero?

6. What happened to the Aereo-Mexican jet?

7. What did the Air Traffic Control do because of the loss of runway three zero? What was the result of that?

8. What was the situation in the mail passenger terminal?

9. Who is Mel Bakersfeld?

10. What did Mel look like?

11. What did Mel think of the situation at the airport?

12. Who is Danny Farrow?

13. What were Mel and Danny doing?

14. What did the snow desk look like?

15. What did Mel inquire about?

16. What did Danny answer?

17. Who was Tanya Livingston?

18. What did she suggest?

19. How did Mel know about it?

20. What did he decide to do?

21. How did he feel about it?