Путешествие - Travelling. Руденко Т.П. - 79 стр.

A: No, I think I’ll better go to the lounge saloon and have a drink. And               1. You should take warm clothes.
   then maybe get some more fresh air on the promenade deck.                           2. You really need a windproof coat.
A: Well, good night then.                                                              3. You don’t have to socialize if you don’t want to.
B: Happy dreams!                                                                       4. Cruise ships are not allowed to go where they like.
                                                                                       5. They have to carry scientists to lead the excursions.
SPEAKING THROUGH LISTENING                                                             6. Small parties are permitted to land.
                                                                                       7. You’ve got to keep away from the wildlife.
1. You are going to listen to a man being interviewed on the radio about a
    cruise he recently took to the Atlantic. In groups note down the kind        READING
    of travel vocabulary that you think you will hear and put these into
    categories, for example:                                                     A
                    Cruise:      ship, captain, …                                Read the magazine article below and answer the questions.
                                                                                       1. What is a freighter?
2. Read through the questions 1-10 very carefully and, in pairs, try to                2. Why did the author travel on a freighter in his youth?
   predict what word or words you might need to fill each gap. Now lis-                3. What effect did this experience have on him?
   ten to the interview.
      1. The temperature was usually around ______________________ .                                            All aboard!
      2. The name of the ship was the ____________________________ .                    If in your youth you read stories about the sea, the idea of sailing on
      3. The cupboards in the cabins were situated __________________ .          a freighter might appeal to you. You might think that, in the prolonged in-
      4. The nationality of the expedition leader was _________________.         timacy of the confines of the ship, your fellow travellers will confide sto-
      5. The weather in this area is sometimes _____________________ .           ries which will bring you fame and fortune as a writer yourself.
      6. Steve enjoyed seeing the different types of __________________ .               What you soon discover when you ask the Passenger Shipping Asso-
      7. The only people, besides tourists, in the region are working at         ciation for freighter sailing dates, is that a cabin on a cargo ship is more
        a ___________________________________________________ .                  expensive than one on the QE2, and your voyage could last a couple of
      8. The only evidence of the fishing industry is empty ___________ .        months or more.
      9. The cruise ships are forbidden to get rid of ___________ in the                So you’ll probably find a cabin full of experienced voyagers, despis-
        sea.                                                                     ing package travel and liable to suggest suddenly that everybody should
      10. It’s important that tourists don’t disturb the ________________ .      have dinner on board the first evening of entering port, rather than go
                                                                                 ashore.
3. In small groups discuss what you have heard. Do you approve of tour-                 Then there are the people who join the crew.
    ists being allowed to go to unspoilt areas of the world? Would you go               When I was a teenager, I was so short of ready cash that I decided to
    to these places if you had the opportunity? Why?/ Why not?                   work my passage from Buenos Aires to London on an old ship. In the huge
                                                                                 Atlantic waves, she sometimes pointed her bow at the moon, as if she were
4. Imagine you are an experienced traveller and are asked to give some           a rocket about to take off! One of my jobs was to lug food from the ship’s
    pieces of advice to people interested in taking a cruise to the Antarctic.   kitchen to the crew’s quarters, along slippery decks, while incoming waves
    Using some information from the listening explain the following              threatened to deliver the cans of stew straight into the sea below. As long as
    statements.                                                                  I didn’t spill any, the crew were understanding!


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