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6)Each guest-room is outfitted with satellite TV, individual air conditioning, a private telephone, a refrigerator, a bathroom with a hairdryer and full amenities.

7)17 suites that are provided with both safes and minibars are the ultimate in style and luxury.

8)The club has an airline desk, a railway desk, currency exchange, a souvenir shop, a laundry and dry cleaning.

9)There are three restaurants overlooking the lagoon that offer Thai cuisine and culture.

10)The Laguna Beach Club doesn’t provide any sport facilities.

11)There is a Business Centre that is outfitted with up-to-date facilities.

12)At the service bureau guests can get the necessary travel information.

4.Answer the questions.

1)Where is the Laguna Beach Club located?

2)How many guest-rooms are there in the club?

3)What is each guest-room equipped with?

4)What are the suites provided with?

5)What services does the club offer?

6)What restaurants are there in the club?

7)What sport facilities does the club provide?

8)What is the Business Centre outfitted with?

5.Put indirect questions to the following sentences.

Pattern:

I wonder if (whether) the club is located in the lagoon. I wonder where the club is located.

I wonder ...

Tell me, please ...

I’d like to know ...

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ed with 1)parkTheincludingLaguna Beach Club

waterfalls, waterslides, jacuzzi, swimming pools.

2)The club has 252 guest-rooms overlooking either the sea or the inland lagoon.

3)The apartments are furnished and comfortably equipped.

4)Each guest-room is outfitted with satellite TV, individual air conditioning, a private telephone, a refrigerator, a bathroom with a hairdryer and full amenities.

5)7 suites are provided with both safes and minibars.

6.Act as an interpreter. Translate a telephone talk from Russian into English and from English into Russian.

— Здравствуйте. Лагуна бич клуб.

— Good morning. This is Ann Smith. I’m trying to arrange ac-

commodation for some businessmen. I wonder what facilities your club offers.

—«Лагуна бич клуб» — 4-х звездочная гостиница. Она окружена парком и находится недалеко от аэропорта.

—I wonder what room facilities there are.

—Все двухместные комнаты оборудованы спутниковым телевидением, телефоном, мини-баром, есть ванная. В люксе, который прекрасно меблирован, имеется сауна и небольшая кухня.

—I’d like to know what sport facilities the club provides.

—Ó íàñ åñòü фитнес-центр, поле для игры в гольф, а также условия для занятий водными видами спорта и многое другое.

—And what about a restaurant?

—К вашим услугам два ресторана, предлагающие национальную и европейскую кухни.

—That’s good. Anything else in the way of facilities?

—Да. Мы располагаем также бизнес-центром, который оснащен современным оборудованием.

—Thank you for the information.

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7. Reconstruct the following situation into a dialogue.

You are a travel agent trying to arrange accommodation for two students from Russia. The receptionist informs you about the facilities at the hotel.

8.Review tasks.

1)Prove that the Laguna Beach Club is one of the best hotels in Bangkok.

2)Comment on accommodations various hotels offer.

1.Scan text 3 and divide it into some logical parts.

2.Headline the logical parts.

Text 3

The Landmark

BANGKOK

The Landmark is a hotel offering five-star facilities and services. It has easy access to the main expressway linking Bangkok to both domestic and international airports, while the city’s main conference centres are only a short journey away.

All rooms are beautifully furnished with the finest local and imported materials. Amenities include satellite and cable TV, direct dial international telephone, minibars, in-room safes and spacious marble bathrooms. For guests who demand an even higher level of accommodation, 55 suites are the ultimate in style and luxury. Expensive furniture, luxurious bedrooms and bathrooms, plus living areas create the perfect home from home.

Throughout there is an emphasis on comfort and convenience so guests can be assured of a relaxing stay. Besides those facilities the hotel also provides one conference room, a shop, a beauty saloon and a sauna, a photo processing lab, money exchange, safe deposit boxes, travel, tour and transportation desks. The hotel also runs a car hire service. Cars can be hired without drivers. A fitness centre, a swimming pool, minigolf, fishing and a full range of water sports will help travellers spend their energy.

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Business travellers can enjoy an ideal working environment, with access to a number of useful services such as a 24-hour Business Centre. It is outfitted with modern facilities. The clerks help guests in keeping in touch with home both night and day. Besides, clerks can help them in ordering newspapers and magazines as well as flowers.

The hospitality for which Thailand is famous throughout the world is available 24 hours a day with in-room dining. The Landmark offers a great range of restaurants providing the finest cuisines from the East and West.

The Kiku No Hana, which is classically styled, serves Japanese delicacies. The lovers of Chinese food can dine on traditional and modern restaurant, at the Sui Sian.

Italian cooking with a great range of seafood can be enjoyed at the Hibiscus Ristorante Italiano. Also on this level is the elegant Rib Room seating 65, the hotel’s restaurant, which specialises in beef. The exotic tastes of Thai cuisines are presented at the Nipa.

Notes:
marble	мрамор
to be assured	быть уверенным
environment	çä.: cðåäà
to keep in touch	поддерживать связь
hospitality	гостеприимство
available	в наличии, в распоряжении
beef	говядина
the perfect home from home	прекрасная домашняя обстановка
3. Complete the table.

The Name of the hotel

Location

Room facilities

Sport facilities

Other facilities

Restaurants

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4.Describe the hotel using the table.

5.Translate text 4 in written form with the help of a dictionary.

Text 4

ASIA HOTEL

The hotel is ideally situated in Bangkok’s colourful shopping, business and entertainment centre. The Asia hotel has been popular with business travellers and tourists. Already in a class of its own, the hotel surpasses the expectations of comfort, service and dining all the best value in town.

The Asia Hotel has 650 rooms and suits with modern luxuries. Amenities making guests stay enjoyable include 2 large swimming pools, a sauna and a health club. Providing one conference room, a gift shop, a beauty saloon, sauna the hotel also offers money exchange, safe deposit boxes, travel, tour and transportation desks. As for fun, the hotel provides 2 tennis courts and video games.

For relaxation there’s live entertainment in the cocktail lounge and lobby bar.

Dining is also imaginative and exciting. There are 5 restaurants ranging from local delights and snacks to exquisite gourmet Chinese, Brazilian and Vietnamese cuisines.

For meetings and conventions, the Asia Hotel excels with facilities for up to 1500 persons plus a Business Centre that has facilities for small business meetings completed with secretarial and translation services, telex, facsimile.

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U n i t 2

TOURISM

Word List

1. to travel (by train, plane, car)		путешествовать (на поезде, самоле-
		те, машине)
2.	travelling	путешествие
3. movement		движение
4. dream		мечта
5. to go in search		идти искать
6. beauty-spot		живописная местность
7. to draw		зд.: притягивать
8. stay-at-home		домосед
9. to have sympathy with		симпатизировать
10.	point of view	точка зрения
11.	trip	путешествие, поездка (короткая)
12.	to go on a (two-day) trip	отправиться в (двухдневный) по-
		õîä
13.	excursion [iks ´kq:Sn]	экскурсия
14.	holiday	отпуск, отдых
15.	to prefer	предпочитать
16.	cheap	дешевый
17.	travel agent	агент, представитель бюро путе-
		шествий
18.	to afford	зд.: предоставлять
19.	window	зд.: витрина
20.	to be full of	иметь много
21.	advertisement [qd ´vq:tismqnt]	реклама
22.	to consist of	состоять из
23.	pursuit	занятие

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24.	climbing [ ´klaimiN]	альпинизм
25.	riding	верховая езда
26.	walking	ходьба
27.	to bike	ездить на мотоцикле
28.	easy [ ´i:zi]	легкий, легко
29.	to cancel	аннулировать
30.	to decide	решать, принимать решение
31.	package holiday	путешествие по туристической путевке
32.	advantage [qd ´va:ntiG]	преимущество
33.	in spite of	несмотря на
34.	continent	континент, материк
35.	to make mistakes	ошибаться, делать ошибки
36.	to spend	тратить, расходовать
37.	to book tickets	заказать билеты

Phonetics

1.Read the words paying attention to the sounds.

[q:] — excursion, advertisement, search, prefer [ai] — bike, climbing, spite, decide

[O:] — draw, afford

[s]— decide, certain, central, cancel, price, place

[k]— continent, cancel, Africa, America, customer, excursion, country, call, consist, package, ticket

Work at the words

1.Read and translate the words and their derivatives.

cancel — cancellation; decide — decision — decidedly; prefer — preferable — preference — preferential; differ — difference — different — differently; move — movement; complete — completely; originate — origin — origination — originator — original — originally — originality; especial — especially

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2. Match the words and phrases in column A with those in column B.

A	B
1. advertisement	a. принять решение
2. to consist of	b. дешевый
3. pursuit	c. альпинизм
4. cheap	d. состоять из
5. climbing	e. преимущество
6. riding	f. ходьба
7. walking	g. путешествие по туристи-
	ческой путевке
8. to bike	h. реклама
9. to decide	i. верховая езда
10. package holiday	j. занятие
11. advantage	k. ездить на мотоцикле

3.Match the antonyms.

easy, less, advantage, wrong, different, stay-at-home, right, to search, hard, traveller, holiday, to find, cheap, week-day, expensive, more, disadvantage, same

4.Match the synonyms.

similar, pursuit, trip, like, to be full of, occupation, to supply, to have sympathy with, to have plenty of, to annul, travelling, to afford, to be composed of, to cancel, to consist of, to take a liking to

5.Make up word-combinations and translate them.

to travel		train
to consist	of	plane
to go	on	a three day trip
to be full	with	ideas
to have sympathy	by	beauty-spots
		car
		a stay-at-home
		bike
		travellers
		certain types of people

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6.Some words are very similar in meaning, and it is important to know exactly when, where and how you can use them. There are many ways of describing how we go from one place to another. Translate the sentences.

A journey means an act of travelling to a place that is far away.

A trip is an act of travelling to a place, especially when you stay in the place for a short time.

A voyage is a journey in a boat or a ship.

A crossing is a short journey in a ship or a boat, which goes from one side of a sea, lake, or other area of water to the other side.

A drive is a journey in a car.

A ride is a short journey in a vehicle such as a car, or on a bicycle or a horse.

A tour is a journey during which a traveller visits several places, usually within a fixed period of time.

7.Study the definitions above and complete the sentences.

1)The ... in a boat was very interesting.

2)We can hire a car and go for a ... in the country.

3)There is a politician on a ... and he wants hotel accommodation.

4)Last year we decided to go for a horse ... .

5)The Titanic sank on its first ... .

6)I’d like to go on a day... to London.

Work at your Grammar

1.Using the following information translate the sentences.

Способы перевода “it”

1.	Указательным местоимением	It is a red pen.
		Это красный карандаш.
2.	Личным местоимением	He came up to the window. It was
		open.
		Он подошел к окну. Оно было
		открыто.

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3.	Не переводится	It often snows in February.
	(формальное подлежащее)	В феврале часто идет снег.
4.	Именно (только)	It is my brother who likes to travel
	(часть оборота it is(was)...	by train.
	that (who, whom, when))	Именно мой брат любит путе-
		шествовать поездом.

1)Some people prefer to travel by car, as it is rather cheap.

2)A travel agency offers all kinds of holidays to all types of people. It can afford some sort of holiday.

3)It is a stay-at-home who is always ready to call someone else “queer”.

4)It was Thomas Cook who organized one of the first travel agencies.

5)It was in the nineteenth century when Thomas Cook started to organize excursions by train.

6)It is very pleasant to go to the seaside in summer.

2.Make these word-combinations shorter by using Participle I and translate them.

Pattern:

travel agencies which offer some sort of holiday — travel agencies offering some sort of holiday

1)a child which dreams about central Africa

2)travelling which keeps us from growing stale and old

3)the beauty-spots of the world which draw travellers year after year

4)a travelling man who has sympathy with all sorts of spending a holyday

5)travel agents’ windows which are full of advertisements

6)companies which arrange some sort of holiday

7)a fixed price which includes travel, hotels, and meals

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