26. Paraphrase as in the model.

Model: – How odd! George and his brother are married to sisters.

• It’s odd that George and his brother should be married to

sisters.

1. Quite naturally, Harry is upset about the incident. 2. It’s incredible! We have been working in the same office for a year and have never talked to each other. 3. You missed the only performance at the festival that was worth watching. What a pity! 4. That’s curious: Kate asked you for advice rather than her friends. 5. It’s typical of Gwen: she orders everybody about. 6. Isn’t it odd! They are going on holiday together after their quarrel. 7. The rent on this house is so high! It’s crazy. 8. How splendid! You are buying a house next door to us.

27. Complete the sentences using the words and phrases in the right-hand column. Add a sentence logically connected.

1. It’s natural that Lily should 2. It’s doubtful that Nick should 3. It’s possible that Greg should 4. It’s astonishing that you should 5. It’s strange that Fred should 6. It’s impossible that you should 7. I’m sorry that you should 8. What a coincidence that they should

a. to recover from his illness b. to take part in the contest c. to be hurt by my words d. to believe her words e. to play the lead f. to stay at the Hilton hotel g. to remember the details h. to think I did it on purpose

VOCABULARY EXERCISES

28. A) Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the box.

credit variety intake estimated employment

to originate vital educational consumer goods package tour

religious souvenirs complete took off

A brief history of tourism

The history of European tourism can perhaps be said ______________ (1) with the medieval pilgrimage. Although it was undertaken primarily for ___________________ (2) reasons, pilgrims quite clearly saw the experience as a kind of holiday (the term itself was derived from the ‘holy day’ and it was associated with leisure activities). Pilgrimages created a _______________ (3) of tourist aspects that still exist – bringing back __________________ (4), obtaining _____________ (5) with foreign banks, and making use of space available on existing forms of transport.

During the 17th-19th centuries, the education of the rich and privileged few was not _______________ (6) without a Grand Tour of Europe’s cultural sites. The sons of the nobility and the gentry were sent upon an extended tour of Europe as an _________________ (7) experience. A modern equivalent of the Grand Tour is the phenomenon of the backpacker, although cultural holidays are also important.

Things started to change for ordinary people in 1845 when Thomas Cook organized the first _________________ (8). By 1939, an __________________ (9) one million people were traveling abroad for holidays each year. It was in the last three decades of the 20^th century that tourism really ___________________ (10). By now it has become a popular global leisure activity.

Tourism is _____________ (11) for many countries such as Egypt, Thailand and many island nations due to the large ________________ (12) of money for businesses with their goods and services and the opportunity for ___________________ (12) in the service industries associated with tourism. Tourism has been industrialized: landscapes, cultures, cuisines, and religions are _______________________ (13) displayed in travel brochures.

b) Answer the teacher’s questions.