Английский язык. Жесткова М.В. - 30 стр.

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guidebooks. Why do the English travel? First, because their neighbor does. Secondly, they were

taught that travel broadens the mind***. But mainly they travel to avoid foreigners. I know

many English people who travel in groups, stay in hotels where even the staff is English, eat

roast beef and Yorkshire pudding on Sunday and steak-and-kidney pies on weekdays, all over

Europe. The main aim of the Englishman abroad is to meet people, I mean, of course, nice

English people from the next door or from the next street. It is possible, however, that the

mania for traveling is coming to an end. A Roman friend of mine told me: “I no longer travel at

all. I stay here because I want to meet my friends from all over the world.” “What exactly do

you mean?” I asked. “It is simple,” he explained. “Whenever I go to London my friend Smith is

in Tokyo and Brown is in Sicily. If I go to Paris, my friends are either in London or in Spain.

But if I stay in Rome all my friends, I’m sure, will turn up at one time or another****. The

world means people to me. I stay here because I want to see the world. Besides, staying at home

broadens the mind.”

Notes

: *to do a round of shops – идти от одного магазина к другому, покупая ч/л.

**to be on the move – путешествовать

***to broaden the mind – расширять кругозор

****at one time or another – раньше или позже

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Исправьте неправильные высказывания. Используйте фразы: It is true. It is false.

1. Travel is the name of a modern disease, which started in the mid-forties. 2. People

begin thinking about traveling in the early spring. 3. Preparing for the trip, he or she spends

more than he or she can afford. 4. In November people board planes, trains, buses, subway or

cars and go to foreign countries. 5. In summer everybody stay at home. 6. Each nationality has

its own aim of traveling. 7. The Americans travel because they want to check up on their

guidebooks. 8. The English travel abroad to avoid foreigners and to meet nice English people.

9. The German travels all over Europe to eat roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. 10. Staying at

home broadens the mind.