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Which responses go with these sentences? Write the correct letter in the space.
Did you book, Madame? ___e____
Do you know the exchange rate? ______
Do you have the complaint, sir? ______
Have you anything to declare? ______
How about a self-catering villa in Tunisia? _____
I reckon we should check in now. ______
Did you make an insurance claim? ______
Let’s get a package holiday? ______
Have you registered, Madame? ______
Please proceed to the baggage reclaim. ______
Isn’t it a bit early? The flight’s not for another two hours.
Yes. We got the full value of the camera and a bit for the damaged suitcase.
Will you do that while I try phoning? There are three cases, remember.
Just this bottle of perfume. Do I have to pay duty on it?
Yes. One double room for four days. The name is Mr.Smith.
Isn’t that a bit adventurous? I think it would be more fun to find hotels and transport when we get there - and it may be cheaper, too.
That’s a great idea. Then we can get food from the market and take it in turns cooking.
Yes. It seems to be impossible to regulate the air-conditioning.
Yes. We signed in and left our passports with you this morning.
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It’s about 1.6 Swiss Francs to the dollar.
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Hotel Oscar Victor
Bravo
India Papa Whisky Charlie
Juliet Quebec X-ray
Delta
Kilo Romeo Yankee
Echo
Lima Sierra Zulu
Foxtrot
Mike Tango
Golf
November Uniform
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ask:
Role-play the dialogue where you have to spell your last name
according to the International Spelling rules. The dialogue should be
devoted to the topic “Travelling” only.
World's Most Beautiful Airports
Envision a majestic space, two miles long, shaped like a dragon. Above, a flurry of reds and yellows color a dizzying mesh ceiling, backlit by the sun, and below, 50 million people pass each year. This building, one of the world’s largest, is no palace or museum—it’s Terminal 3 at Beijing International Airport.
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irports,
of course, aren’t always so glorious. Most often, they’re merely
utilitarian entry and exit points for travelers who may be too
harried to notice the design. But a growing number of cities have
spent lavishly, hiring starchitects to elevate the basic
terminal-and-tower structure into a city's captivating gateway.
This is especially true in Asia. Eager to demonstrate their affluence and technological mastery, countries like China and South Korea have led the world in the construction of gargantuan new facilities that are unparalleled in their architectural style and engineering. “Airports are a national symbol, therefore no expense is spared to make sure mine is better than yours,” says architect Ron Steinert, an airport expert with the international architecture firm Gensler.
Unfortunately, it might be hard to envision an airport like Beijing’s in the U.S., where flying is generally no more inspiring than taking a bus (and sometimes less so). Sure, back in the 1960s, when Eero Saarinen’s landmark TWA terminal at John F. Kennedy was completed, air travel was a glamorous, exciting experience for a relatively small number of people. (In 1960, JFK handled 8.8 million passengers a year. These days it’s upward of 48 million.) But today, airports like Cleveland-Hopkins International and La Guardia are so dreary and difficult to navigate, their terminals only add to what is already a dreaded travel experience.
Still, some U.S. airports have moments of beauty, such as the light tunnel at Chicago O’Hare’s United Airlines terminal, a breakthrough when it was completed in 1988, or artist Michele Oka Doner’s sea life–embedded floor at Miami’s Concourse A, which earned a cameo in the George Clooney movie Up in the Air.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is building entire new terminals that infuse air travel with some of its old magic. T4 at Madrid’s Barajas airport is, according to the New Yorker’s architecture critic Paul Goldberger, “more breathtakingly beautiful than any airport I have ever seen.” And Santiago Calatrava’s Sondika airport in Bilbao is “cathedral-like, a great space to be in,” according to Design Within Reach’s globetrotting founder Rob Forbes.
And the world’s most beautiful airports aren’t just for show—they also bring heightened functionality. “There’s a need for legibility to the actual design and a linear flow,” says engineer Regine Weston, an airport expert for Arup who studies the pragmatic side of airport beauty. “So when you’re in a building you have a very good sense of what happens next and where you go."
In other words, these airports will not only dazzle you—their design may also help you get to your gate on time.
Exercise 1. Fill in the words from the box in the sentences.
BUSINESS TRAVEL
The taxi driver took me the long way to the airport. I didn’t give him a tip.___
I got to the ______________ ten minutes before take-off. Fortunately the plane was late.
I had a very heavy suitcase and two pieces of _____________________.
The suitcase and one of the other bags were too heavy and I had to pay an __________________ charge.
I wanted a window seat but I could only get an _________________ seat.
The weather was bad and I had to wear my _____________ all though the trip.
The first plane arrived very late and so I missed my ________________. I waited three hours in the airport for another flight.
At last I arrived at my hotel. They could not find my ________________.
I wanted a double room but I had to take a ________________.
I went to the hotel restaurant but could not find a _________________ to serve me.
I went back to my room and tried ________________ but there was no reply.
In the morning I asked for my ________________. I don’t need to tell you: they had got it wrong.
Exercise 2. Match the following columns
1.
go a. immigration 2.
book b. a museum
3.
board c. some research
4.
check d. an arrival card
5.
do e. customs 6.
visit f. on a trip
7.
fill in g. local customs 8.
pass h. into a hotel 9.
go through i. a plane 10.
respect j. a plane ticket
Exercise 3. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct and some have a word which should not be there.