Упражнения по теме "Travelling"

Travelling

Practice

Agree or disagree with the following statements

• Businessmen usually travel from curiosity.
• Teenagers usually travel with their parents.
• Lonely people like to travel alone.
• Tourists always travel on business.
• When young people travel they like to make new friends and go sightseeing.
• Small children usually travel with parents or with grandparents.
• Travelling is useful, enjoyable and good for health.
• Usually travelling is dangerous and expensive.
• Sometimes travelling can be disappointing and tiring.
• People like to travel because it gives us life experience and helps us to explore the world.
• Travelling broadens our mind.

businessman

Here are some character-sketches of different people. Guess who these people are.

an experienced traveler

a couch potato

a professor of History

1. He likes to travel alone or with his students. They travel from curiosity. They like to see the beauty of the world and learn traditions of other countries. They think that travelling is fascinating and enjoyable. It broadens our mind and allows us to understand other people be tter.

3. He likes to travel alone or with his friends. Usually travels for pleasure or in search of adventures. When travels he likes to go sightseeing or explore unknown places. He believes that travelling is exciting and gives life experience.

2. He doesn’t like to travel at all. He believes that it’s better to stay at home? Because travelling is dangerous, troublesome and expensive.

4. Usually he travels alone on business. When e travels he likes to meet new people. He thinks that travelling is useful but sometimes it’s a bit tiring.

Let’s check!

• A professor of History

• A couch potato

• An experienced traveller

• Businessman

Fill in the necessary modal verb:

1. When he was fifteen he ____________ run fast but he can’t now.

2. Next summer he ________________ to the sights of London.

3. She _______________________ dance at the party because her leg was broken.

4. ________ I open the window, please?

5.Children ____________ watch TV at late evening.

6. You ____________ go there at once. It’s really very urgent (срочный).

7 We __ ____________ hurry. We’ve got plenty of time.

8. The secretary ___________ finish the document till 5 p.m.

could

will be able to

couldn’t/ wasn’t able to

May

shouldn’t

must

needn’t

must

must should/ ought to couldn’t/ was able to needn’t will be able to

• to go sightseeing
• to bathe[ɓeið] in the sea
• to go on holiday abroad
• to spend time at the seaside resort
• to go on an excursion
• to visit tourist attractions
• to go mountaineering

• What do you see at these pictures ?

• What do people do there ?

What is the best way of travelling? Why?

• quick • dangerous • slow (медл.) safe expensive
• troublesome (беспокойный) •useful exciting comfortable
• fantastic • cheap • enjoyable tiring (утомит.)

The best way of travelling is travelling by …. because ……….

I like to travel because ……….

Finish the sentences

• quick(быстр.) dangerous (опасный) slow (медл.) safe (безопасный) expensive (дорогой) useful (полезный) exciting (увлекат.) comfortable fantastic

cheap (дешёвый) enjoyable (приятный) tiring (утомит.)

1. Travelling is ………. because …..

2. People travel to (чтобы)…….

Homework

• You’re going to travel to the Moon. You’re allowed to take only three things with you. What are they? Say about yourself and ask your friend. You may use the example below.

• - I'm going to take a camera because ….../ to
• - I'm going to take a …. because ……/ to
• - I'm going to take a ……. because …../ to