Word Combinations

to go on a journey, trip, to travel second/standard

voyage, a package tour class

to travel by air (train, to call at a port

boat, cruiser, liner, etc.) to go ashore

to change from train to boat, bad (good) sailor

(cruiser, liner) to make a trip, journey

(But to change for a boat. on deck

Also: Where do I change for on shore

Paris?) to look inviting

to be seasick, to be travelsick to be due at (a place)

(in any kind of transport) direct/through train

single ticket you can't beat the train

return ticket (return berth) a home lover/stay-at-home/
to travel/go first class a home-stay type

EXERCISES I. Answer the questions. Be careful to argue your case well:

I. What means of travel do you know? 2. Why are many people fond of travelling? 3. Why do some people like trav­elling by train? 4. Do you like travelling by train? What makes you like/dislike it? 5. What are the advantages of a sea-voyage? 6. What are the advantages of hitch-hiking? What kind of people usually object to travelling by sea? What are the advantages and disadvantages of traveling by air? Have you ever travelled by air? How do you like it? What do you think about walking tours? 10. What is, in your opinion, the most enjoyable means of travel? 11. What way of travelling affords most comfort for elderly people? (Give your reasons.) 12. Do you think travel helps a person to become wiser?

II. Fill in appropriate words (consult the list of synonyms on pp. 291—
292):.

I. I'd be delighted to go on a sea..., but my wife has nev­er been a good sailor, so we can't join you. 2. Last week we made a wonderful... to the mountains. It took us four hours by coach. 3. The Italian... was really exciting. We visited a number of wonderful towns and then returned to Rome. The... back to Moscow by railway took us about three days. 4. It is delightful to come ashore after a long... and to feel solid ground under one's foot. 5. Many times on his long... in the depths of Africa, in the jungle of the Amazon he faced danger, starvation and death. 6. At the beginning of the last century going from Petersburg to Moscow was described as "...". Now it is but a night's... by night train, a six hours'... by daytrain or an air... of an hour and a half. 7. I'm just reading a very amusing book about a pleasure party making a Caribbean... in somebody's yacht. 8. Young people are naturally fond of... as a way of visiting new places and see­ing things: it is cheap and gives one a feeling of freedom and infinite horizons. 9. I'm told you're going on a... to the Far East. 10. They're planning a... of some Baltic resorts. They've a new car, you know. 11. You're looking pale. A... to the seaside will do you good.

III. Learn Text В and act out the scene.

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