Unit 4 travel

4 A. Travel arrangements

• STARTING UP

● How often do you travel? Where do you like to go? Do you ever travel on business?

● When you travel, which of the following do you like or not like? Make sentences as in the examples.

I love meeting new people. I like eating new food. I don't mind packing. I don't like flying. I hate checking in.

• checking in • waiting for luggage • going through security checks • speaking a foreign language • packing suitcases • being away from home • travelling to the airport / station • meeting new people • flying • eating new food

Business today is international. Business people often have to travel a lot. They have to plan an itinerary for a foreign business trip to make good use of their time. On a business trip people may meet colleagues and business partners for the first time. It is usual for colleagues from different countries to experience cultural differences. In other words, they may be surprised by foreign social conventions, that is the different ways that other nationalities or different cultures do things.

• LISTENING

Listen to extracts 1 - 8. Where (a-e) can travellers hear or say these things?

a) in a taxi b) at an airport c) at a railway station d) at a hotel e) on a plane	1) …. 2) …. 3) …. 4) …. 5) ….	6) …. 7) …. 8) ….
READING A. Read this conversation Tessa's secretary is phoning a travel agency. CLERK: Hello. Can I help you? PENNY: Oh, good morning. My name is Penny Miles, from Knight and Day Advertising. I'd like some information about flights to Munich, please. CLERK: When do you want to go there? PENNY: I'm not going. My boss is. And she wants to leave on the fourth. CLERK: At what time of day? PENNY: As early as possible. CLERK: Can you hold for a moment? PENNY: Yes... CLERK: ... Let's see. There's a British Airway flight from London Heathrow at eight fifteen. PENNY: Quarter past eight. I see. And there's nothing earlier than that? CLERK: No, that's the first flight. PENNY: I see. When does it arrive? CLERK: At eleven am. PENNY: Eleven o'clock exactly? CLERK: Yes. PENNY: It's an hour later in Munich, isn't it? CLERK: Uh….I think so. Let me see. Yes.

B. Read this conversation between a clerk in a travel agency and a customer. Look at what the clerk says (1-6). Put the customer's part (a-f) in the right order.

1. Good afternoon. Universal Travel. Can I help you?

2.I see. When do you want to travel?

3. In the morning or in the afternoon?

4. There's an Alitalia flight from Heathrow at six twenty-five in the morning.

5. At eight fifty. That's local time - an hour ahead of us.

6. There's a flight from Rome to London at seven twenty in the evening, that arrives in London at five to nine.

a) OK. I'd like one seat on that flight, please, in business class. When's the last flight from Rome to London the same day?_______

b) What time does it arrive in Rome?______

c) on 6th June______.

d) In the morning. I have a meeting in Rome at 12.00_______.

e) Yes. I'd like to inquire about I flights to Rome. (1)

f) Good. I’ll come back on that flight._________