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TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION. CONVERSATIONAL TOPICS

  1. As we approached Petersburg I fastened my safety-belt when...

  2. The IL-86 gathered speed for the take-off and...

  3. The stewardess handed round sweets as we...

  4. The weather man promised a thunderstorm, so...

  5. When the plane rolled up to a stop the passengers...

  6. I felt airsick because...

  7. You don’t feel the descent of the plane in your ears so badly, when...

  8. We have enjoyed the flight as ...

  9. Watching through the big window that overlooked the airfield he saw...

  10. He settled himself back in his aircraft seat and ...

42 What do you do and say when.

  1. The announcer calls the flight;

  2. Your luggage weighs more than one is allowed to take free of charge;

  3. You can’t leave on the day your flight is booked;

  4. You want to know the altitude and speed your plane is flying at;

  5. You can’t stand flying;

  6. Your ears hurt you during the take-off;

  7. You arrive at the airport just before the departure of your plane;

  8. You would like to know what airport formalities one has to complete be­fore flying.

43 Retell the text.

I started the packing. It seemed a longer job than I had thought it was go­ing to be; but I got the bag finished at last, and I sat on it and strapped it.

“Arn’t you going to put the boots in?” said Harris. And I looked around, and found I had forgotten them.

I opened the bag and packed the boots in; and then, just as I was going to close it, a horrible idea occurred to me. Had I packed my tooth-brush? I don’t know how it is, but I never do know whether I’ve packed my tooth­brush.

My tooth-brush is a thing that haunts me when I’m travelling, and makes my life a misery. I dream that I haven’t packed it; and get out of bed and hunt for it. And, in the morning, I pack it before I have used it, and have to unpack again to get it, and it is always the last thing I turn out of the bag; and then I repack and forget it, and have to rush upstairs for it at the last moment and carry it to the railway station, wrapped up in my pocket-hand­kerchief.


HOLIDAYS. TRAVELLING BY AIR

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When I had finished, George asked if the soap was in. I said I didn’t care a hang whether the soap was in or whether it wasn’t; and I slammed the bag to and strapped it, and found that I had packed my tobacco-pouch in it, and had to re-open it. It got shut up finally at 10.5 pm.

Harris thought that he and George had better to do the rest; and I agreed and sat down, and they had a go.

I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles, and jars, and pies, and stoves, and cakes, and tomatoes, etc., and felt that the thing would soon become exciting.

It did. They started with breaking a cup. That was the first thing they did.

Then Harris packed the strawberry jam on top of a tomato and squashed it, and they had to pick out the tomato with a teaspoon.

And then it was George’s turn and he trod on the butter. They stepped on things, and put things behind them; and then couldn’t find them when they wanted them; and they packed the pies at the bottom, and put heavy things on top, and smashed the pies in.

They upset salt over everything, and as for the butter. I never saw two men do more with one- and twopence worth of butter in my whole life than they did. After George had got it off his slipper, they tried to put it in the kettle. It wouldn’t go in, and what was in wouldn’t come out. They did scrape it out at last, and put it down on a chair, and Harris sat on it, and it stuck to him, and they went looking for it all over the room.

The packing was done at 12.50; and Harris sat on the big hamper, and said he hoped nothing would be found broken.

(Jerome K. Jerome. “Three Men in a Boat to Say Nothing of the Dog.” Abridged.)

44 Finish the dialogues:

  1. Passport Control Officer: Your passport please.

C. …

P.C.O.: How long are you staying in London?

C.: …

P.C.O.: Your passport and visa are in order. Have a pleasant stay, sir.

С.: …

  1. Customs Official: Good afternoon, madam, is this your suit-case?

  1. : …

  1. O.: Oh, I see. Have you anything to declare?

A.:…

  1. O.: No, thank you, that won’t be necessary.