Assignment 2.5 Retell the text

Assignment 2.6 Read the dialogue and learn it by heart

Plans for the summer holidays

Michael: What about spending our holiday in California this time? Iўve always wanted to go to California.

Helen: In California? Why not in Hawaii?

Michael: Do you think we are so rich?

Helen: I think we can afford it if we do not stay at a very expensive hotel.

Michael: Well, I do not think so! Why not go to the West coast? California… a land of sunshine and golden beaches…

Helen: OK, Iўll go to the Travel Agency next week. You know what we shall do? Weўll book plane tickets in advance.

Michael: Thatўs a good idea! By the way, Iўve got a guide book of California. Letўs read what it says about this wonderful land.

Helen: Oh, what a beautiful views! The sea… I love the sea! Weўll swim, weўll lie in the sun and go boating…

Michael: Yes, weўll take a boat trip along the coast and take pictures.

Helen: And when we come back weўll make an album of our wonderful holiday in California!

Michael: OK, Iўll take my new camera then. I think, weўll enjoy our holiday there.

TEXT 3. TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRES

VOCABULARY. LEARN THE WORDS.

leisure centres, city orientations, food service, racks, the delights, folders, travelogues

Assignment 3.1 Read and translate the text:

In any town or city there are special places where you may always get any information about tours and travellings. These are tourist information offices. They are also called visitor information centres or tourist centres.

They are placed at the biggest airports, railway stations, hotels, holiday or leisure centres and many tourist attractions.

Tourist information offices have got office clerks who advise customers on car hire, excursions, coach tours, accommodations, flights and so on. They also give city orientations to guests.

The clerks answer a lot of phone calls and give information on passports visas, the Customs and luggage, weather and climate, city public transport and food service.

Tourist information office clerks speak foreign languages fluently because they deal with a lot of foreign visitors.

A typical tourist information office has racks of colourful brochures that illustrate the delights offered by a wide variety of tours, city maps and guidebooks. Besides there are booklets and folders, travelogues and timetables in tourist information offices. Tourists get most of them free of charge.

Assignment 3.2 Answer the following questions:

1. What kind of companies are the tourist offices?

2. Where are they situated?

3. What kind of advice do the clerks give?

4. What sort of information do they give?

5. Why do they speak foreign languages fluently?

6. What is there at the tourist information offices?

Assignment 3.3 Use the appropriate words from the list:

the delights, city orientations, free of charge, colourful brochures, visitor information centres, fluently, city maps, guidebooks,

1. Tourist information offices are called … .

2. They also give … to guests.

3. Tourist information office clerks speak foreign languages… .

4. A typical tourist information office has racks of … that illustrate … offered by a wide variety of tours, … and… .

5. Tourist get most of them… .

Assignment 3.4 Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:

1. В туристических информационных центрах на полках много брошюр, журналов, буклетов и каталогов путешествий.

2. Служащие в туристических информационных центрах говорят довольно бегло на разных языках, поскольку обслуживают клиентов из разных стран.

3. Служащие туристских информационных центров дают клиентам информацию по паспортам и визам, таможенным формальностям и багажу, вылетам самолетов, погоде, климату, городскому транспорту и общественному питанию.

Assignment 3.5 Retell the text.

TEXT 4. TOURIST OUTLETS