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Task 16. Read the additional text about types of holiday. After reading it try to remember what other types of holiday you know. If there is no any, try to create your own types of holiday.
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Holiday is an extended period of recreation, especially spent away from home or travelling. This means that holiday is a kind of tourist activity that is not connected with work or business. Therefore, to make out which types of tourist activity refer to holiday one should exclude all kinds of business travelling and then it’s quite possible to compose a list of types of holiday according to different criteria: duration of holiday, its geography, tourists’ mobility, their age, transportation, seasons, value for money, etc.
But the main criterion is the aim of holiday. Different people take holidays on various purposes. Some go hunting, others prefer to climb mountains. A lot of people have holidays relative to sport activities, such as hiking, cycling, horse-back riding, rowing and canoeing, as well as scuba-diving or even bungee jumping. There are also such purposes as recreation, treatment and medical care. In this case people can choose resort or a spa. Today a great attention is paid to ecological tourism.
One of the tourist activities is studying. You can not be sure if it is a type of holiday, but one should not forget that for some people studying is more recreating and relaxing than for example hunting or climbing mountains.
Nowadays there are many kinds of work and each of them requires its own type of holiday. So the number of types of holiday is steadily growing.
Lesson 14. Sightseeing
Pre-reading
Task 1. Answer the questions:
1. What can help tourists when they are sightseeing?
| A. beaches and local dances | B. shops and souvenirs | C. guidebooks and maps |
2. What cities become touristy?
| A. cosmopolitan and lively | B. famous for their beauty and history | C. packed with people |
Task 2. Find, think, and decide while reading.
1. Think of things that tourists often do on a sightseeing tour.
2. While reading find the traditional tourists’ attraction.
3. Decide of a modern world wonder you would like to visit.
4. Think of places that people usually visit in Tambov and Tambov region.
Task 3. Read the text.
People love sightseeing because it is interesting and makes unforgettable impression. They may do a lot of sightseeing, or they may do a bit of sightseeing. People go to museums, art galleries, see fountains, statues, visit palaces, temples, castles, cathedrals, markets. Many people go on a sightseeing tour of a town in a bus or they rent a car. When you are sightseeing, it helps to buy a guidebook, because it is a book of information for tourists. You may buy a map of the town you are in. It may help you, too. When people do sightseeing they take a lot of photographs and spend lots of money on souvenirs. Many beautiful cities have become very touristy and they are always very crowded with tourists. Old cities also draw people for sightseeing because of their historical monuments.
After sightseeing tourists go out and have a good time in restaurants, cinemas, theatres, night-clubs, at concerts, discos, bars. Markets are worth visiting. They have lots of little stalls selling just about everything from apples to antiques.
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Unfortunately, Tambov is not packed with tourists because it is far from tourists routes. But I think its places of interest will be visited by tourists because of its architectural ensembles, historical and cultural memorials. Tourists are invited to the Museum of Local Lore, Chicherin’s house-museum, the picture Gallery. There are some memorial places in and round our region, Ivanovka, for instance. Personal things, books, manuscripts, photos which belonged to the Rachmaninovs are collected in Rachmaninov’s house-museum in Ivanovka.
The ancient Greeks spoke of the Seven Wonders of the World. Recently, some engineers came up with this list of the seven wonders of our modern world: the Panama Canal, the Empire State Building in New York City, the Netherlands North Sea Protection Works, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the CN Tower in Toronto, the Itaipu Dam at the Brazil-Paraguay border, the Channel Tunnel, which joins France and England. All these things were called “modern wonders” because they are important advances in engineering.
The traditional tourist attractions of the world are the Grate Wall in China (was begun in 214 B.C.), the Colosseum in Rome (was opened in 80 A.D.), the Taj Mahal in India (was started in 1630 and finished in1652), the Statue of Liberty (was designed by the French sculptor Bartholdi), the Eiffel Tower in Paris (was completed in 1889). The Great Wall of China is the largest structure ever built. The Colosseum was sometimes filled with water for ship battles. The Taj Mahal is a very rich tomb for the wife of an Indian prince. The Statue of Liberty in New York was given to Americans by the people of France. The Eiffel Tower was built for the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. The Channel Tunnel was constructed to join France and England.
Vocabulary
Task 4. A. Give Russian equivalents of English words.
| • do a bit of sightseeing – | |
| • do a lot of sightseeing – | |
| • take photographs – | |
| • spend a lot of money – | |
| • buy souvenirs – | |
| • go out – | |
| • have a good time – | |
| • crowded with tourists – | |
| • historical monuments – | |
| • touristy – | |
| • a guidebook – | |
| • a map – | |
| • go on a sightseeing tour – | |
| • worth visiting – |
B. Make up your own sentences with the words, word combinations.
| • do sightseeing |
| • museums, art galleries, fountains, statues, palaces, temples, castles, cathedrals |
| • buy a guidebook or a map |
| • take photographs |
| • spend a lot of money on... |
| • visit |
| • go |
| • see |
C. Find and give Synonyms of the words, word combinations.
| • a lot of – | |
| • be crowded – | |
| • begin – | |
| • finish – | |
| • build – | |
| • sights – | |
| • visit – | |
| • attract – | |
| • things, built a long time ago – | |
| • enjoy themselves – |
D. Find and give antonyms of the worlds, world combinations.
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| • a bit of sightseeing – |
| • few people – |
| • earn money – |
| • modern – |
| • the smallest – |
| • ever – |
| • near – |
| • poor – |
E. Match words with their definitions.
| A. a guidebook | 1) typical products from the country |
| B. go out | 2) a good idea to do smth |
| C. have a good time | 3) go to different places for social reasons, e.g. restaurant or disco |
| D. souvenirs | 4) a book of information for tourists |
| E. touristy | 5) places, built a long time ago |
| F. historical monuments | 6) too much tourism |
| G. be worth + ing | 7) enjoy themselves |
Grammar
Task 5. Word formation. Look at the words and fill in the table.
| word | prefix | base word | suffix |
| personal | – | -person- | -al |
| unforgettable | un- | -forget- | -able |
| unfortunately | |||
| beautiful | |||
| touristy | |||
| historical | |||
| traditional | |||
| attraction | |||
| engineer | |||
| instance | |||
| region | |||
| monument | |||
| liberty | |||
| structure | |||
| sculptor |
Task 6. A. Find in the text examples with the passive voice and translate them into Russian.
B. Choose the right variant and explain your choice.
| 1) | A. The reconstruction of a church were finished by builders in 2007. |
| B. The reconstruction of a church was finished by builders in 2007. | |
| 2) | A. This museum was build in 1964. |
| B. This museum was built in 1964. | |
| 3) | A. Tambov will be visited by tourists. |
| B. Tambov will be visited with tourists. |
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