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Instructions for booking tickets through Internet:

1. For travel by air, visit one of the major airline travel booking sites to book airline tickets online. Popular sites include Priceline.com, Orbitz.com, Hotwire.com, Expedia.com and Travelocity.com, though there are of course others. If you want to book directly with an airline, the top airline sites are aa.com, jetblueairways.com, united.com, delta.com, continental.com, iflyswa.com, and USair.com. Enter your destination along with the trip departure and return date to find a listing of flights (coach, first class or business class). When you find a time and fare that fits your needs, select the flight and purchase it online with your credit card.

2. If you want to travel by bus, go to Greyhound.com or PeterPanBus.com to book bus tickets online for trips in the United States and Canada. Explore the e-fares, online specials and advance ticket deals available. You will be given a long list of departure times for the date you choose---select a time and purchase the ticket with your credit card. Download the e-ticket from your email account and print it to be presented at the gate where you will depart. (They will ask for your e-ticket.) The bus driver or clerk assisting him will scan the bar code on your ticket.

3. Rail tickets can be found and purchased at Amtrak.com for local or cross-country train trips. Enter your city of departure and destination, indicate whether you are traveling one way or round-trip and the desired travel date(s) to make fare and schedule choices. Decide if you want to travel in a seat or book a cabin for a long trip. Check the "Hot Deals" section of the website for special fares for travel in certain regions, like the Northeast and Midwest. You can also schedule a multicity trip with more than one stop using the Amtrak site.

4. If you are looking for cruise options, go to Expedia.com, Carnival.com, Priceline.com or CruiseCheap.com to book cruise tickets online. Decide where you want to sail to and then choose your closest departure city. You will be shown available months for cruise travel and the duration of the available trips before booking with a credit card. Most rates are based on double occupancy. You may also need to book an adjoining flight for travel to the cruise's departure point or from its return port after the trip.

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Multitasking

(Багатофункціональність)

From the earliest time people have been trying to do several things simultaneously. They can read a book, cook dinner, talk on the phone, and do many other things at the same time. As cars have become avail­able, the time of multitasking has increased: people drive, listen to the radio, eat, and smoke in their cars at the same time.

Now an arsenal of new technology (from notebook computers to cellular phones and portable televisions) makes it possible for every­one to multitask all day.

The computer industry introduced the word "multitasking" into the vocabulary. Mainframe computers that handled networks were the original multitaskers. Apple's and Microsoft's software turned millions of personal computers into multitaskers. Today millions of people can set their personal computers to multitask while they are themselves multitasking: talking on the phone, receiving faxes, and looking through newspapers at the same time.

While multitasking is not bad for computers, it may be a bad thing for some people. Psychologists say it is possible for the human brain to process two or more tasks at the same time, but only one of them receives full attention. Multitasking makes people's stressful lives even more stressful. Experts say that although a lot of people believe that multitasking enchances their productivity, in fact it can reduce it.

Because of the limitation of the human brain, multitasking can lead to many mistakes. Indeed, a person who is doing several things at the sa­me time may put the wrong number in a spreadsheet or send a message to the wrong e-mail address. Moreover, people on the other end of the line don't usually like to talk to a person who is doing something else while talking to them. It may alienate the people from the multitasker.

Multitaskers also like to do more than one thing at once even in their leisure time. They cannot watch television without reading a newspaper or have dinner without watching TV.

Now multitasking takes place nearly everywhere. A lot of businessmen and managers are never far from their notebook computers and cellular telephones. They are almost always doing two or three things at once, driving and dialing, speaking and typing on their com­puters. On airplanes they are using their notebook computers to answer e-mail messages. While driving, they are speaking on their cellular phones. "Why wait?" they ask. "That's the world we live in right now".

Answer the following questions:

1. What is multitasking?

2. Are you a multitasker?

3. How many things are you doing at the same time: at your office, at home, when you are driving to your office or home, when you are watching TV or having dinner?

4. Would you say it’s dangerous to be a multitasker? Why?

5. Is a multitasker do many things only at work or even at home? Give examples.?