- •Unit 4 small world Active vocabulary to learn and use in the following exercises:
- •For questions 1-15, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.
- •For questions 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the space. Bilingual Graduates Required for Sunworld Travel
- •For questions 1-15 read the text below and decide which answer (a,b,c or d) best fits each gap.
- •Read the text and choose the correct collocations.
- •Complete the idioms and other expressions in bold in sentences 1 – 15
- •For questions 1-4 read the following texts.
- •Describe a recent personal travel experience using the collocations about travel adventures from this unit.
- •Work in pairs or in small groups. Read and discuss the following quotations / proverbs. What do you think they mean? Do you agree or disagree with them?
- •Listen to the story (sb p.55 ex.2) and insert the missing words.
- •Topics for Discussion
For questions 1-15, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.
The Island Where Dreams Come True
Ellis Island in New York - that extraordinary entrance to а new land and а new life which received, processed and dispatched millions of aniving immigrants (1) from 1892 and 1924 - has been turned (2)…into……. a museum. (3) …having……. lain derelict for years after its official closure, the island's huge purpose-built reception centre has been restored. It has (4) …has been denied…….. а place of pilgrimage for the descendants of the desperate people who filed through its cavernous main hall to answer questions and (5) ……ask…… in the forms in whatever halting English (6) ……….. possessed.
То get to Ellis Island, you take а ferry from the southernmost tip of Manhattan. (7) there you sail past the Statue of Liberty and pull up to the dock outside the enormous entrance to that imposing reception building, it is impossible (8) ……not…… to reflect on (9) …poverty……. it must have looked to those hordes of people who clambered off the boats with their children clinging (10)……on….. them and their belongings packed into baskets and bags.
(11) …there……… was only the poorest who had this expenence. First and second class passengers were dealt (12) …out…….. by а far more civilized and expeditious system. (13) …because of……. that it was just third class and steerage travellers who had to (14) …………. through the Ellis Island application and sifting procedure, it is significant that 40 per cent of present-day Americans are descended (15) …from……. people who were processed there on arrival in the US.
For questions 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the space. Bilingual Graduates Required for Sunworld Travel
Sunworld Travel has аwidespread and extensive network of travel agencies across the country, and due to recent (1) …growth. , we have а number of (2) …vacancies.. for graduates who are interested in pursuing а career in tourism. Suitable candidates will be hardworking, ambitious and (3) …reliable. . They will have the (4) …proved ability to work successfully within a team, for example in а work-experience or college situation, but should also be able to work (5) ……independently. .
They should have good interpersonal skills, and because much of our business is conducted with overseas operators, (6) …fluent in а second language is also required, (7) …preferable…… in Spanish or French. If achieving customer (8) …satisfaction appeals to you, and you meet the above criteria, come along to our (9) …recruiting. day on 16th March, at the Queen's Hotel, South Malden. Our regional managers will be giving presentations and arranging interviews with (10) applicant
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