Define the meaning of the following words and phrases
1. outlook
2. change of scene
3. put on airs
4. see the world
5. nuisance
Match the words on the left with explanations on the right.
| 1. journey | a) a short journey in a boat or ship which goes from one side of the sea, lake or other area of water to the other |
| 2. trip | |
| 3. flight | |
| 4. voyage | b) a long journey, esp. a difficult one, for ex., over mountains or through forests, esp. when you are walking |
| 5. cruise | |
| 6. crossing | |
| 7. drive | c) a long journey, esp. one made by a group of people to visit a dangerous place or a place that has never been visited before |
| 8. ride | |
| 9. tour | |
| 10. trek | d) a short journey arranged so that a group of people can visit a place of interest, esp. while they are already on holiday |
| 11. expedition | |
| 12. excursion |
5. Look through the list of words below and classify them into two groups: “A short journey” and “A long journey”.
day trip, voyage, crossing, drive, ride, tour, trek, expedition, outing, travel, excursion, flight, vacation
Some words may not belong to either group.
Put one of the words below in each space. Use each word only once.
trip, journey, travel, voyage, cruise, way, flight
It all started while I was at the ________ agent's booking the tickets for a weekend ________ to London. I saw an advertisement for a Mediterranean ________. It wasn't necessary to go all the ________. You could take a ________ to Venice, for example, join the ship there and continue the ________ to Greece and Egypt. Great, I thought, this would be the ________ of a lifetime. A month later, I won £10,000 in a lottery! So I decided to go on the cruise with my sister.
7. Give synonyms.
| 1. costly | 6. pleasure |
| 2. exciting | 7. brag |
| 3. boring | 8. broaden |
| 4. ill-bred | 9. meddlesome |
| 5. hazardous | 10. travel agency |
Think of at least 5 words to go into each blank.
| 1. a … tour | 4. … travel |
| 2. a … trip | 5. travel … |
| 3. a … journey | 6. to travel … |
Use the following words to make as many compounds as possible.
travel, road, sick, car, train, air, sea, ship, crash, wreck
Match the verbs on the left with nouns on the right.
| 1. to take | a) a flight |
| b) a trip | |
| 2. to make | c) a journey |
| d) a crossing | |
| 3. to go on | e) a drive |
| f) a tour | |
| 4. to book | g) a ride |
| h) an expedition | |
| 5. to go for | i) an excursion |
Choose the best word to complete the sentences.
1. comfortable – convenient
a. His life has settled into a ... pattern that never changes.
b. Come at the time that is most ... to you.
c. This is a nice ... car to travel in.
d. I find it ... to live just outside the town.
2. accident – incident – adventure
a. Oh, that was one of the strangest ...s in my life.
b. There have been a lot of road ...s in the town lately.
c. For a child of ten, it is quite an ... to go away from home for some weeks.
d. Did you hear about the terrible rail …? The train was derailed and many people were killed.
3. learn – find out – discover
a. Haven't you ... the truth?
b. Scientists have ... that this disease is carried by rats.
c. They soon ... that he was lying.
d. His mother ... in the newspapers of her son's success.
4. scene – scenery
a. This mountain ... is just what I like.
b. There is a beautiful ... from our hotel window.
c. Hastings was the ... of a great battle.
Fill in the gaps with correct prepositions.
1. travel … necessity
2. travel ... search of health
3. travel ... foot
4. brag ... one's adventures
5. feel superior ... other people
6. go ... air
7. travel ... a change of scene
8. travel ... curiosity
9. go ... a cycling tour
10.ride ... a car
Say it in English.
1. потерпеть кораблекрушение
2. страдать морской болезнью
3. остановить попутную машину
4. попасть в аварию
5. погибнуть в автокатастрофе
6. знакомиться с достопримечательностями с помощью слайдов
7. заказать каюту на корабле
8. наслаждаться прекрасными пейзажами
9. совершить приятную автобусную экскурсию в Париж
10. отдохнуть от цивилизации
11. отправиться в утомительное кругосветное путешествие
12. захватывающее путешествие вниз по Нилу
13. волнующее путешествие в Тибет
READING
1. Read the text (the paragraphs are out of order). Then do the tasks which follow. Sum up the reasons for travelling that Mark Wallington mentions in his essay.
A
So I turned to its personal significance: was I escaping from something? Was I turning my back on the nine-to-five monotony of the working week? Unlikely, I didn’t have a ________. Was I then perhaps setting out as a protest? Or was I searching for the Man Within, the Real Me, was spiritual development my goal? No, I couldn't convince myself, and in the end the best ________ I could come up with was I thought I might impress this girl I’d met at a party before Christmas.
B
But try telling people that. They’ll say, “Yes, but why are you doing it?" They want a declaration, an objective that gives the trip a plot; something of the "To ________ Vikings could have done it in open boats", kind of thing.
C
Now, as motives go this may sound one of the less impressive, but at this point I think it's worthwhile looking back through ________ at the various voyages of discovery and making note of just how many pioneers set out not to chart the unknown and extend the limits of human endurance but to impress girls they'd met at parties. You'll find none of them did, which I think is a shame. If only one of the great ________ could have stepped off his mountain or boat and instead of delivering some ________ speech concerning Man and Destiny, have announced that he did it to impress Debbie whom he met round at Doug's place a fortnight before, then the world would be a better place – we'd probably still think it was flat, but it would be better.
D
The best journeys have no motives. They are insignificant little affairs, made for no other reason than they exist, for no other goal than ________.
E
I'd thought long and hard to try and give my walk round the Cornish coast some kind of purpose, but had found it difficult. To begin with I'd considered its geographical implication, but as a journey it wasn't original enough. Devon had no lost tribes, Cornwall no rivers with sources ________. I was going to hike round the peninsular coastal path and I was unlikely to prove anything about the earth that couldn't already be looked up in any atlas of the area. I wasn't even going to be the first person to walk the path in its entirety; my test was purely one of physical strength and endurance; if I wanted to get myself in the record books I'd have to walk it ________ or blindfold.
(from 500 Mile Walkies by Mark Wallington)
1. Decide on the correct order of the paragraphs.
2. Decide where the following words should come in the text: adventures, backwards, fun, history, job, meaningless, prove, reason, undiscovered.
3. Make up a title for the text.
Travelling On Your Own.