Listen to the five airport announcements and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening skills.

Preparation.В Do this exercise before you listen. Write a number (1-6) to put these sentences in order

. …………. Wait at the boarding gate

………….. Go to the checking-in desk

. …………. Board the plane

. …………. Go through immigration

. …………. The plane takes off.

В………….В Arrive at the airport.

1 Check your understanding: gap fill Do this exercise while you listen. Complete the gaps with a word given below.

New YorkВВ AthensВ AmsterdamВ RomeВ Tokyo

1 Speaker A: The plane is going to _______________.

В2Speaker B: The plane is going to _______________.

3 Speaker C: The plane is going to _______________.

4 Speaker D: The plane is going to _______________.

5 Speaker E: The plane is going to _______________.

2 Check your understanding: gap fill Do this exercise while you listen. Complete the gaps.

1 The 9.25 flight to Rome is delayed by _______________ hours.

2 Passengers going to Tokyo should go to boarding gate

_______________.

3 Passengers going to Athens should go to boarding gate _______________.

4 The flight number of the plane going to Amsterdam is _______________. It will leave from gate _______________.

5 The time in _______________ is 18.30.

6The temperature in New York is _______________ ВєF.

Listening 2ВВВВВВВВ Travelling

Listen to the text and fiil the gaps with necessary words

Travelling gives you _______________________ you cannot find in your own country. You meet local people and get to _______________________. It’s so exciting. I _______________________ and doing some research on the country or countries I want to visit. Sometimes I like to plan _______________________, my flights, hotels and tours, etc. For me, the most exciting thing is arriving in a country with _______________________ and no fixed plans. I _______________________ and guest houses. You get to meet and talk to different and interesting people _______________________. I also like to visit places that are _______________________. Being somewhere with thousands of other tourists? It’s not my cup of tea.

Reading

You are going to read an article about a new kind of police force in South Korea. Read the text in order to answer the questions below.

1. How many police officers were chosen?

2. What is their special ability?

3. What is their duty?

4. How do they show which languages they can speak?

5. Who designed their uniforms?

6. What can they do if there is a serious crime or emergency?

7. How many tourists visited South Korea in 2012?

8. What is the most popular tourist destination in South Korea?

The tourist police

South Korea introduces a new police force.

1In South Korea, the country where the popstar Psy comes from, there is a new "tourist police force". These tourist police officers are dressed in special uniforms which are designed by one of the costume designers who created Psy's image.

2One hundred young officers were chosen because of their ability to speak different languages. Their duty is to assist tourists who feel they have been overcharged during their stay in the South Korean capital of Seoul.

3Officers can speak a number of different languages including English, Mandarin and Japanese. They will wear special badges which state the languages that they can communicate in.

4"Tourists who think they were overcharged by taxi drivers or street food vendors can come and talk to us," said English-speaking recruit Park Jae-Hyoung.

"We will help settle the problem."

5The uniforms that the tourist police wear are designed by one of the costume designers for Psy's music video `Gangnam style' - the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube in December 2012.

6The song was played at the official tourist police launch in the capital and a police unit performed some of Psy's special dance moves.

7Tourist police officers are not armed and should call regular police officers if there is an emergency or serious crime.

8In 2012, approximately 11 million tourists visited South Korea, and Seoul remains its most popular destination.

Speaking

A)Travel words

Look at the words below. Put them into the correct categories:

a bungalow,В a hairdryer, a hostel, a hotel, a monument, a museum, a penknife. a ruck sack, a street festival, a tent, an adapter, an apartment, an art gallery, ancient ruins

Accommodation: _____________________________________________

Sights:ВВВВВВВВВВВВВВВВ _____________________________________________ Travel accessories: ____________________________________________

B) Describing a trip

Study the words below.

Educational, exciting, expensive, full of adventure, hazardous, hectic, inspiring, low-budget, peaceful, relaxing, romantic, tedious.

Can you think of any other adjectives for describing a trip?