Off the beaten track hitch-hiking leisure off-peak
Package holiday travel agents resort peak
Cut-price tickets youth hostels
People have more money and more (a) ______ nowadays and even young people
can afford to go abroad. Many (b) ______ offer cheap (c) ______ for flights to all
parts of the world, so youngsters can avoid the crowded, well-known places and get to less famous areas which are (d) ______. Instead of using public transport and hotels, they can travel by (e) ______ and stay at (f) ______. But most people prefer some kind of (g) ______ at a popular holiday (h) ______, which means that
everything is arranged for you and the price you pay includes transport, food and
accommodation. Try to avoid taking your holiday during the busy (i) ______tourist
season. It's more crowded and expensive. If possible, go in the quieter (j) ______
period.
b) Journeys
Trip travel journey cruise tour voyage flight
(a) For general advice about ______, go to a travel agent.
(b) One day I would like to do the ______ by train and ship across Russia to Japan.
(c) We’re going on a ______ of Europe, visiting 11 countries in five weeks.
(d) We went on a three-week ______ round the Mediterranean. The ship called at
Venice, Athens, Istanbul and Alexandria.
(e) He once went by ship to Australia. The ______ took 3 1/2 weeks.
(f) I’m going on a business ______ to Paris next weekend.
(g) Air France ______ 507 from Paris to New York will be taking off in ten minutes.
(h) The ______ from Heathrow Airport to the centre of London takes about 45 minutes by underground.
(i) On our first day in New York we went on a three-hour ______ of the city by bus, which showed us the main sights.
(j) During our stay in Paris we went on a day ______ to Disneyland.
c) in at by on
(a) We went ______ car. (d) She arrived ___ Rome ___ midnight.
(b) We went ______ John's car. (e) She arrived ______ the hotel.
(c) We went ______ a journey.
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If a tourist’s yarning to (1) escape the crowd,(2) render off the beaten trackand (3)get back to nature,Suriname increasingly looks a (4) promising choice.Nobody in Suriname claims that the country (5) boaststhe best sand, sea and sun in the Caribbean. But that, in a way, isprecisely the point: there aren’t (6) hordesof people either.
As Henk Essed, director of the Suriname Tourism Foundation, observes: “We don’t really need masses of tourists like we have in the rest of the Caribbean. Instead, Suriname’s modest (7) tourism sectorfocuses on what makes the country different. The biggest attraction for visitors (8) seeking something out of the ordinaryis the (9) wealth ofwildlife. Large (10) tractsof the country are still covered by (11) virginrainforest, home to a huge range of (12) flora and fauna.”
“There is great potential to develop (13) eco-tourismas one of the major sources of income in the near future”, says Harold Sijlbing, managing director of Stinasu, an organisation which promotes conservation of wildlife and ecological awareness.
(a) ___ looking for something different/unusual
(b) ___ original and natural
(c) ___ live a natural, rural style of life
(d) ___ go where there are not many people
(e) ___ crowds, in a negative sense
(f) ___ go to places tourists don’t normally go
(g) ___ tourist industry (formal)
(h) ___ achoice which could be a very good one
(i) ___ plants and animals (Latin, a fixed phrase)
(j) ___ large amount of (formal)
(k) ___ areas of land, collocates with large, vast, huge
(l) ___ have something that is impressive and that you can be proud of
(m) __ holidays that respect the environment
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Air Travel
a) departure lounge immigration officer check runway
Departure gate security guard board on board
Departures board excess baggage check in duty free
Hand luggage conveyor belt taxi passengers
Announcement check-in desk trolley take off
Security check
When you travel by air you have to get to the airport early in order to (a) ____ about an hour before your flight. If you have a lot of luggage, you can put it in a (b) ______ and push it to the (c) ______, where someone will (d) ______your ticket and weigh your luggage. If you have (e) ______, it can be expensive. Your heavy luggage is put on a (f) ______ and carried away. A light bag is classed as (g) ______ and you can take it with you on to the plane. An (h) ______ looks at your passport and a (i) ______checks your hand luggage before you go into the (j) ______ to wait till your flight is called. If you want to, you can buy some cheap (k)______ goods here. Then you see on the (l) ______or you hear an (m) _____ that you must (n) ______ your plane. You go through the (o) ______, then there is sometimes a (p) ______ before you actually enter the plane. When all the (q)______ are (r) ______, and when the captain and his crew are ready in the cockpit, the plane begins to (s) ______to the end of the (t) ______. Finally, permission is received from the control tower and the plane moves faster and faster in order to (u)______.
b) headphones seat belts aisle land