8. Insert words or word combinations given in brackets below.

1.1 live ten miles from the ... 2. We are ... round Italy for

our holidays. 3. Sochi a big lively seaside resort. It

... its sandy beaches. 4.1 like lying on the ... looking at the sea.

5. The resort is simply packed with ... 6. I’m never tired of

in the sea. 7. For months I‘ve been looking forward to .... 8. We

haven’t where to stay. 9. Do you... easily? 10.1 worked on

a farm during the college ....

(beach, touring, fixed up, is noted as, sunbathing, vacation, holiday-makers, coast, tan, is noted for, splashing about)

9. Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbs.

1. Where will you go ... your holidays? 2.1 hope I’ll do a lot of reading when ... holiday. 3. He’s touring ... the country. All the seaside places are simply swarming ... holiday-makers.

3. The coast of the Crimea is noted ... its beauty. 5. We want to run ... ... a day or two to look ... . 6. This resort is packed ... people. 7. They’ll be green ... envy. 8. Thousands .. people ... cars make their way... the coast. 9. Sometimes you have to wait ... hours ... the side ... the road. 10. Special staff looks ... their children.

10. Here are a number of different places where you can spend a holiday. Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right:

1. camp a. accommodation like a hotel but

cheaper and with fewer services

2. self-catering flat b. a place providing holiday ac­

commodation in little chalets or flkts, with restaurants, bars, swimming pools and lots of oth­er facilities and entertainment

3. guesthouse c. a place where you can pitch a

tent or park a caravan

4. youth hostel d. accommodation which one

owns, say, a 26^,hpart of and so has the right to stay there for 2 weeks every year

5. holiday camp e. cheap accommodation, mainly

for young people, with, per­haps, ten or more people sleep­ing in bunk beds in one room

6. time-share apartment f. flat which you rent, you cook

for yourself

Which of these holiday places have you or any of your friends

stayed at? Try and note down at least one advantage and one

disadvantage for each even if you have no direct personal expe­rience of them.

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Read the dialogue and get ready to discuss it.

HOLIDAY AND ESCAPE

Michael: I wish people wouldn’t go on about their holidays so much. All they talk about is where they went last year and where they are going next year.

Trevor: Well, why shouldn’t they?

M: Because they are living more and more in a dream world.

T: What do you mean?

M: Well, they are not really interested in their jobs so they

spend all their time thinking about the two or three weeks they have off.

T: I still don’t see what’s wrong with that.

M: Well I do. People should live life as it is.

T: You are taking it a bit seriously, aren’t you? Holidays are

only relaxation.

M: But they could be so much more — education, culture,

the chance to meet different people ... In spite of all our dashing around we don’t know each other any better.

T: I suppose there is something in that, but you will never

stop people using their holidays just to escape their trou­bles.

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1. Write a summary of the text "The British on Holiday"

2. Here are a number of different things which people like to do on holiday:

sunbathe hike or go hiking

swim or go swimming touror go touring

do some or go sightseeing go on an excursion skior go skiing climbor go climbing

go for a drive (mountaineering)

camp or go camping

There are six typical language mistakes in the paragraph be­low.

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The Smiths stayed at a camping last summer because all other kinds of holiday accommodations are too expensive for them. Every day Mrs. Smith had a sunbath, Mr. Smith made a sight-seeing and the children made a travel around the is­land. One day they made an excursion to a local castle.

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Underline them and then write the corrections.

3. Translate into English:

1. Какой у вас чудесный загар! — Спасибо за компли­мент. Мне нравится бездельничать на пляже и плес­каться в море.

2. Мы живем в десяти милях от побережья.

3. Я сыт по горло рыбалкой.

4. Мне нравится идея провести отпуск на море.

5. Он пишет книгу о своих путешествиях в Африке.

6. Вам придется совершить путешествие одному.

7. Это — трехдневное путешествие на поезде.

8. Мысль о путешествии по Атлантике приводила ее в ужас.

9. Круиз по Средиземному морю обещал много инте­ресных впечатлений.

10. Ты получил удовольствие от своей недельной поез­дки на море?

11. Этот курорт знаменит песчаными пляжами.

12. Я с нетерпением жду поездки в Испанию. Я подумы­ваю о посещении корриды.

13. Почему бы не провести каникулы где-нибудь на Черноморском побережье? — А что, если погода бу­дет плохая? Отдых на море зависит от погоды.

14. Давай съездим на Гавайские острова. — Хорошая идея для обеспеченных людей. Я не могу себе этого позволить, так как только что закончил ремонт в квартире. Я уже потратил много денег в этом году.

15. Плата за перелет достаточно высока, но тебе не при­дется тратить большие деньги, когда ты доберешься туда.

16. Почему бы не попросить Тома составить вам компа­нию? — Тома? Он ведь портит удовольствие другим.

4. Make a list of the facts that prove that holidays are very important to many people.

5. Where would you spend your ideal holiday? What kind of accommodation would you stay in? How would you spend your time? Write a paragraph.

6. Write a short essay on one of the following topics.

1. The real purpose of a holiday.

2. Holidays! Does that mean lying in the sun or doing some­thing exciting and energetic?

3 . Why are holidays so important to many people? Is it just escapism?

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1. What's your opinion about holidays in Great Britain.

Draw a parallel between holiday-making in Great Brit­ain and in this country. What makes them alike and dif­ferent?

2. Are you satisfied with the holidays you've just had?

3. Give your friends advice where and how to spend sum­mer or winter holidays.

4. What choice will they make? The local trade-union committee offers passes to a) a sport centre on the Bal­tic Sea coast; b) a tourist centre in Karelia; c) a holiday home not far from Nizhny Novgorod.

1. Andrew was seriously ill in spring and got very tired dur­ing the exams. 2. Nick is crazy about swimming. 3. Oleg cares for having a different kind of holiday.

3. Speak about the weekend plans of the following peo­ple:

1. a married couple with children;

2. a woman who goes to work;

3. a student living away from home;

4. a football fan;

5. a breakfast-in-bed and Sunday paper enthusiast.

To my mind,... If you ask me... I reckon...

lb express your opinion use the following:

In my opinion... I believe...

I should say...

3. Comment on the proverbs:

1. East or West, home is best.

2. One cannot be in two places at once.

3. By the street of “By and by” one arrives at the house of “Never”.

Recall examples from life or literature to prove the proverb.

Unit 2.Hiking and Camping

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Camp — лагерь, база отдыха

camp out — разбить лагерь и временно жить в палатке

go camping — проводить отпуск в палатке

to hike — путешествовать пешком

hiking — пеший туризм

to go hiking — ходить в походы

hiker — турист

ramble (v, n) — прогуливаться; длинная прогулка

trek (v, n) — ходить в поход (сложный); поход, переход

trekker — участник похода

foot — подножие

route — маршрут

a long-distance route / a hiking route — маршрут на длинную дистанцию to work out a route — разрабатывать маршрут to take a route — идти по маршруту rucksack — рюкзак to carry a rucksack — нести рюкзак hardship — трудность

to put up with hardships —терпеливосноситьневзгоды

mountaineering — альпинизм

to go mountaineering —заниматьсяальпинизмом

nature-lover — любитель природы

comfort-lover — любитель комфорта

haste —спешка

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Learn the dialogue by heart. Say why Helen dislikes the idea of hiking.

Ann: Why not go hiking with us, Helen?

Helen: Me hiking? You won’t catch me doing it again.

Ann: A sad experience? ,

Helen: Very. OnCe I had a walking holiday. It kept raining day and night.

Ann: And you had to stay in a tent all the time, didn’t you?

Helen: Yes, we became so jumpy that we quarrelled over noth­ing. We just cursed our bad luck.

Ann: I can’t make vou out.I always enjoy camping out, rain

or shine. And I’m ready to put up with any lack of com­fort.

Helen: I ’ve never suspected that you are so keen on hiking.

Ann But I am. Haven’t you noticed that I’m never laid up with cold? Without wishingto sound big-headedI must say I’vebecome as hard as nails.

Helen: Since you took up hiking do you mean?

Ann: Yes, do you knowwhat appeals to me in it most?

Helen: Exercise?

Ann: Nature and people. Hiking brings you into contact with

a lot of people and I’m never tired of making new friends.

Helen: You sound so enthusiastic that...

Ann: So you feel like joining us?

Helen: Not exactly but I’m definitely going to give it a secondthought.

1. Reproduce the dialogue in the Reported Speech.

2. Respond to the following statements. Make use of the given word combinations:

1. I can’t make out how you can go hiking. You’d better give

up the idea of it.

. to be keen on

a hiking holiday ‘

is there anything better than a change of air and surroundings to be run down

to be bored with everything and everybody What really matters is

to harden the body (to become hardy and strong) to be subject to colds to be sure to to build up one’s health

2. I can’t fancy you going camping. You aren’t one for hiking if you ask me.

You’ll see for yourself that I am.

to be ready to

to put up with hardships

(not) to make a mountain out of a molehill

I suppose

to do smb good

to be sure to

to be fit for studies

3. I am afraid I’m not strong enough to camp out.

What nonsense

to be the very thing for smb

to choose an easy hiking route

to do some climbing

to go for long walks in the forest

to gather mushrooms

to pick up berries

to camp out at the foot of

to cook, wash up after meals, clean the tent in turn not to be a hardship to be sure to

to put up with some lack of comfort to become hardy and strong

4. Have you heard the news: Irene is going hiking. You’ve giv­en me a surprise.

not strong enough

to carry a heavy rucksack

hardly able to...

not to put up with hardships

sure to...

to complain on hardships on the very first day a spoilsport (= a killjoy, a wet blanket)

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THE ONLY WAY TO TRAVEL IS ON FOOT

When anthropologists turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label “Legless Man”. His- tones of the time will go something like this: in the twentieth century people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. The surprising thing is that they didn’t use their legs even when they went on holiday. They built cable railways, ski-lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain.

The future history books might also record that we did not use our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the Way. Air travel gives you a bird’s- eye view of the world. Car drivers in particular, never want to stop. The typical twentieth-century traveller is the man who al­ways says “I’ve been there” — meaning, “I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.”

When you travel at high speeds the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future, because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place. But actu­al arrival when it is achieved is meaningless. You want to move on again. The traveller on foot, on the other hand, lives con­stantly in the present. He experiences to present moment with his eyes, his ears and whole of his body. At the end of his jour­ney he feels a delicious physical weariness. He knows that sound satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travellers.

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1. Make up 10 questions to the text.

2. Think of some arguments and counter-arguments to carry on the discussion.