Learn the following word—combinations
A non—stop flight; a steward(ess); a runway; an aircrash; to land; a forced lanng; to fly at a speed ( height)of; to hit an air—pocket; to pick up speed; to have one’s luggage weighed & registered; to sail from; to call at a port (ports); to pass up the gangway; to go ashore; a life—belt, life—buoy; a good (poor) sailor; to have a smooth voyage; to have a rough voyage; to be seasick; to be airsick; to be due at (a place).
2). Explaine the meaning of the following words & phrases. Use them in questions of your own.
Aircrash; non—stop flight; to hit an air—pocket; to take off; forced landing; poor sailor; promenade deck.
Федеральное агентство по образованию
Елабужский государственный педагогический университет
Факультет иностранных языков
Контрольная работа № 1
Для студентов II курса заочного отделения.
(практика устной и письменной речи)
Елабуга, 2006.
Control work N 1 for the second course on topic “ Holidays & Pastimes”
I.Read & translate the text “Easy does it” & do the exercises given after it.
RELAXING ISN”T EASY. I know - I have tried it. I can see, therefore, why Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry should want corporations to have full-time “leisure advisers”. It seems an idea worth copying. A start should be made at the very top. Captains of industry often find it hardest of all to relax. Workers at least have the excuse that they need to protect their job and pay off the mortage. Many tycoons have all the money they could ever hope to spend. So, why don’t they ease up? Some buy a luxurious yacht, a beach house, or even an island, but seldom make use these expensive leisure facilities. “I don’t have time for a holiday”, they insist. What they usually mean is that they could find the time, if pressed, but they don’t want to. Some consider themselves so indispensable that their business would collapse if they were not around to supervise every detail. Some are prisoners of their own success: they sit on so many boards of directors, and have such a heavy schedule of appointments, that they “haven’t a moment to spare.”
But more often than not the plain truth is that they don’t know how to ease up. No-one has ever told them how to do it. You can’t be a frantic executive one day and a leisurely beachcomber the next: the contrast is too great. The bronzed young drifters who make it look simple have had years of practice.
Put a captain of industry on a beach and he tends to get bored and restless. He misses the pace, the action. Invite him to play tennis and he will probably decline, because he fears that he will look foolish - he prefers to play games in the office, where he is a proven winner. If he has a holiday home, or stays in a plush hotel, he will be on the telephone six times a day, doing what he does best. Relaxing is for wimps.
So what can a “leisure adviser” do for him - or, increasingly, her? The basic task is to change attitudes, and gradually to introduce him to various leisure activities. Some experts believe in playing what is known as the “fear card”. The executive is warned of the risk of “burnout” and told that, if he doesn’t take care of his health, the business will suffer. Does he realise what it would cost if he had to go into more than a holiday. That is the bottom line.
But I believe in a more positive approach. A good start is to persuade him that holidays are a “psychological investment”, and that it is perfectly feasible to combine business with pleasure. This has to be done step by step: the cold turkey treatment is rarely effective. They can take work with them. For a captain of industry, holidays are ideal for strategic planning. They can call the office, though the aim must be to reduce the number of calls as the holiday progresses. They can have faxes sent to them , though the staff should try to cut down on the rolls of fax paper: one should be sufficient after a while. They can be persuaded to take up golf. It is not only a pleasant (and healthy) way of going for a leisurely walk, but it can also be good for business.
Some of the biggest deals of the past decade have begun with a casual remark on the golf course, and bankers have acquired some of their most lucrative clients while blasting their way out of a bunker. It no doubt helps to explain why golf has become the favourite sport of senior executives throughout the world.
They are plenty of courses in the sun. Executive should be reminded that this is the time of the year when it becomes imperative to embark on inspection tours of overseas subsidiaries in places like Florida, Australia and Jamaica.
Once the initial leisure training period has been completed you can try to hook him on other activities which are every bit as challening as a take-over bid. He can climb mountains, ride river rapids, go scuba diving. He may well end up making a happy discovery: leisure can be fun.
a) Rewrite & memorize all the new words for you from the text, be sure of their spelling & pronunciation.
b) Find the following words & word-combinations in the text , explain their meanings or give their English equivalents : to relax, mortgage, to ease up, luxurious, to be indispensable, to supervise, to have a heavy schedule of appointments, to decline smth., to be a proven winner, the cold turkey treatment, to be lucrative, to embark on smth.
c) Make up your own questions to the text, so as to cover all the main points of it ( no less than 20).
d) Find ten words & phrases in the text associated with each of the following: the world of work leisure activities.
e) Read the text again in detail to complete the following statements.
¨ Top executives often find it difficult to take time off because
A. It would cause them financial problems.
B. They need to protect their jobs.
C. They have never really learnt how to relax
D. They simply don’t have the time.
¨ For many executives the worst thing about going away on holiday is
A. Having to stay in a hotel or holiday home.
B. Having to lie on a beach in the sun.
C. being out of touch with the office.
E. being unable to escape the telephone.
¨ The main role of a leisure adviser is to
A. teach an executive a new leisure activity.
B. give an executive a full medical check-up.
C. help an executive alter his approach to life.
F. organise a holiday for an executive.
¨ The author believes executives need to be convinced of the
A. psycological benefits of a holiday.
B. financial benefits of a holiday.
C. commercial benefits of a holiday.
D. social benefits of a holiday.
¨ If the initial trainig is successful, an executive might then be persuaded to
A. have regular holidays abroad.
B. take up an exciting new activity.
C. spend more time at home.
G. reorganise his business.
f) Answer the following questions in a written form ( in brief) :
n What sorts of people do you think find it especially hard to take time off & relax?
n What advice would you give someone who finds it difficult ?
n what do you think of the idea of a “ leisure adviser” ?
n How easy is it for you to relax ?
II. a). Choose the best alternative to complete the gaps in this story. Be careful because some of the alternatives are only slightly wrong !
Many people go on a ( charter package packed packet) holiday & book it at a travel ( agency bureau office service). But we decided to make our own (arrangements flights excursion travel). We sent off for dozen of ( brochures handouts tickets prospectuses) & read lots of ( companion guide leader phrase) books before we decided which ( marina resort spa youth hostel) to go to.
We all enjoy ( getting sunburnt getting sunstroke having a bath sunbathing), so we chose a place with a long sandy ( beach coast seaside shore ) & some interesting places nearby to visit if we wanted to go on any (excursions expeditions pilgrimages sightseeings) .
Instead of staying in a hotel, we wanted to save money so we booked a ( do-it-youself self-catering self-study survival) apartment with a ( look scenery sight view) of the sea & its own ( balcony box gallery porch). In the photo the place looked (delicious delighted delightful discouraging) , & the other owners sounded really nice on the phone. But imagine our dismay when we arrived there to discover that...
Don’t forget to check through the wrong answers: there’s useful vocabulary among them. Be sure of their meanings.
b). How do you think the story continued ? What did they discover? Give your own ending. Add some 5-6 sentences.
c). In these sentences three alternatives are correct & two are wrong. Choose the best three alternatives for each.
¨ In the summer, this little mountain village is full of ...... (beachcombers day-trippers globetrotters holiday-makers sightseers)
¨ We stay in a charming little guest house where we paid $25 a night for ....... ( bed & breakfast breakfast & bed full board half board a pension.)
¨ Some people like to be ....... when they are on holiday. (active busy energetic strenuous tiring).
¨ Others prefer a ..... holiday. (dull lazy relaxing restful tedious).
¨ Most people like to have a ..... of things to do when they’re away from home. (confusion choice muddle range variety)
¨ We brought home a beautiful pottery vase as a ..... (gift present reminder souvenir trophy).
d). Write down five questions you could ask your friends about their holidays.