Vocabulary activator

Exercise 11. Find the word or phrase in the text which means the same as the following:

1. large quantity (usually of water) ……………………………

2. unimportant ……………………………

3. holiday including travel and accommodation ……………………………

4. beds for small children ……………………………

5. almost unavailable ……………………………

6. sent out an order to appear in court ……………………………

7. paid completely ……………………………

8. very angry ……………………………

9. storm with strong wind ……………………………

10. a service which helps to bring agreement

between two people or groups of people ……………………………

POINTS FOR DISCUSSION

Have you ever had a journey or holiday when something went wrong. If so, what?

Have you ever complained to a travel agent, tour company or hotel. If so, what?

Have you ever complained in a restaurant. If so, why?

Have you ever wanted to complain but felt too embarrassed. If so, when?

Would you prefer to complain in person, by telephone or in writing, and why?

What can a customer hope to achieve by complaining?

Is the customer always right to complain if they are dissatisfied with service?

GRAMMAR IN USE

Exercise 12. Complete the following sentences with the correct prepositions. Choose answers from the list after the exercise. Each preposition should be used once only.

1. Many people were attracted …… the shop’s special opening offers.

2. The insurance company has agreed to meet our clam …… full.

3. The shop repaired the clock completely free …… charge.

4. The course was described …… suitable …… complete beginners.

5. …… his return to England, he set about trying to find a job.

6. I didn’t think his work was …… to standard so I asked him to do it again.

7. He made a search of the cellar…… the help of a torch.

8. The neighbours are always complaining …… us …… our dog.

ERROR CORRECTION

Exercise 13. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. If the line is correct put a tick ٧. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word. There are two examples, (0) and (00).

Travel

0 One of my main ambitions is to travel around the ٧

00 world, visiting to as many countries as possible. I to

1 think that travelling is a very good way to learn ______

2 about the life. It is important to understand that ______

3 there are many of different ways to live, and that our ______

4 own culture is not necessarily being better than other ______

5 cultures. On the other hand, I realise that it is very ______

6 hard to get to know that a foreign country well if ______

7 you are just passing through as a tourist. That is ______

8 why I would try this to talk to the local people of the _______

9 country I was visiting. If we did not have understand _______

10 each other’s language, then maybe we could talk in ________

11 English. I would not like to travel on my own self ________

12 because that could be lonely, or even dangerous. I ________

13 would take and my best friend with me. The only ________

14 problem I have about travelling around the world is ________

15 money. I would have to save for years so to be able to ________

afford such an expensive holiday!

Topical Vocabulary

Camping

1. an open air enthusiast – любитель отдыха на свежем воздухе

2. a comfort lover – приверженец комфорта

3. to be bitten by mosquitoes – быть искусанным комарами

4. to live on canned food – есть одни консервы

5. a (wool-filled, down) sleeping-bag – (шерстяной, пуховый) спальный мешок

6. a tent – палатка

7. to sleep on air – спать на свежем воздухе

8. to enjoy absolute freedom – наслаждаться полной свободой

9. a camping site – палаточный лагерь

10. to put up a tent – разбить палатку

11. to get a meal ready – готовить еду

12. to be active all the time – быть постоянно активным

13. to be close to nature – быть на природе

14. a real change from everyday living – настоящая смена ежедневной рутины

15. to develop a hearty appetite – вызвать здоровый аппетит

16. to share one’s pleasures with smb. – разделить удовольствие с кем-нибудь

17. to be relaxed – быть отдохнувшим

18. to adopt a different way of life – начать другую жизнь

19. true recreation – настоящий отдых

20. to get one’s tan – загорать

21. camping outfit – снаряжение для кемпинга

22. hiking boots – туристические ботинки

23. a parka – штормовая куртка

24. first-aid kit – аптечка первой помощи

25. things of prime necessity – предметы первой необходимости

26. to travel light – путешествовать налегке

27. a camp-fire – бивачный костер

28. to break up camp – свернуть лагерь (палатку)

29. furniture of the folden type – походная складная мебель

30. to build an open fire in the forest – разводить костер в лесу

READING FOR COMPREHENSION

Exercise 14. Read the dialogue “Camping” and answer the following questions:

Where did George spend his last holidays? Why did he manage to get to the place of destination rather quickly? How many things did he carry with him? Why did the concentrated food come in handy? Was the only girl in their company a drag for them? How did Bob with his friends deliver their camping outfit? What was so pleasant about a river trip?

Camping

George. Hello, Bob!

Bob. How d’you do, George? Have you been back long from your holidays?

G. No, I only came back yesterday.

B. You look splendid. Where did you get your tan?

G. I was at Lake N.

B. At Lake N.? It’s pretty far from here, isn’t it? How did you get there?

G. Well, we trained¹ it as far as M., and from there we went by a lorry as far as the village K.

B. And how did you get to the lake?

G. We roughed² the rest of the way. We made a short cut over the N. mountains.

B. You had to foot³ it a great deal, I see. How many days did it take you to cross the mountains?

G. Four days. Generally we got up at 5. We always pitched our tents⁴ near some water, so it was no trouble to go there and wash first thing in the morning. Afterwards we prepared our breakfast, broke up camp, and started on our way.

B. You had pretty much to carry with you, hadn’t you?

G. Oh, we took only things of necessity, of course. We stowed them away in our rucksacks.

B. Did you cook your own meals?

G. Yes, we did. But when on the move⁵ one has to keep cooking and washing up to the smallest amount possible, you know, otherwise he’d find himself breakfasting at 3 a.m. having dinner at four or five -.

B. And never getting round to supper at all, eh?

G. Quite right. The concentrated type of food comes in very handy in such cases.

B. It does, indeed. Besides it’s tasty, nourishing, varied and easy to cook, isn’t it?

G. Yes, a concentrated soup can be prepared even on a methylated spirit stove⁶.

B. Whom did you go with, if I may ask?

G. There were four of us, three men and a girl.

B. A girl on a tour like that?

G. Why, what fault do you find with girls?

B. As a rule girls are awful drags on such long tours.

G. There you are wrong, I dare say. You wouldn’t believe it, but in many things she did better than the men. Always the first up in the morning and the last in at night.

B. She did the cooking, I suppose.

G. And the washing up as well. A real sport, that’s what she is.

B. I suppose she is. Did you come back the same way?

G. Oh, no. We had two rubber boats with us and we - .

B. Two rubber boats?! You don’t mean to say that you carried the boats on top of all the camping outfit all over the mountains?

G. The idea! Certainly not. Most of the outfit, above all the boats, was sent ahead in a lorry, right up to the lake.

B. And so you came back by water. Why, you must have had a most wonderful time!

G. Oh, yes. You can’t imagine how pleasant it was to drift down the river and watch the changing scenes that float by. There at the lake we had a fine time too.

B. I can’t tell you how much I envy you. What about going there next year?

G. Well, I don’t mind if we do.

B. I can hardly tell you how much I’m looking forward to that trip! I’m going to dream of nothing but this tour next summer.

Exercise 15. Make up a dialogue in pairs on the topic of camping. Imagine that one of you is extremely fond of camping, but the other makes mountains out of molehills exaggerating the disadvantages of camping.

Vocabulary “Misunderstanding”

1. miss the point – not understand what is the most important part

2. talk at cross purposes, get your / our / their lines crossed – when two people are talking about different things but they think they are talking about the same thing

3. get the wrong end of the stick – to misunderstand completely what has been said

4. not make end of the stick – not to be able to understand something at all