Two Weeks in Another Town

TRAVELLING BY AIR

Exercise 1.When you arrive at the airport, make sure you go to the correct terminal. A lot of airports have more than one. First, you check in at the check-in desk. When you've got your boarding card, you go through passport control (for international flights). Then you have to go through security, where they check your bags and coats. After that you wait in the departure lounge. When your flight is called, you go to the departure gate and board the plane.

On the plane, you find your seat, put your hand luggage in an overhead locker, then sit down and fasten your seatbelt. When all the passengers are on the plane and everything is ready, the plane takes off. During the flight, the flight attendants serve drinks and meals. The pilot usually gives some information about the flight and the weather, too. Before the plane lands, the cabin crew check all the passengers' seatbelts again.

Exercise 2. Find the bold words or expressions in exercise 1 to match these definitions.

1. the flight attendants

2. to get on the plane

3. you put your hand luggage here

4. this person flies the plane

5. the plane leaves the airport

6. they check your passports here

7. the place where you wait before flying

8. the people travelling on the plane

9. the plane arrives

10. you wear this for take off and landing

Exercise 3. a) Listen to Mark's travel story. Why was he worried in Milan? Why did the story have a happy ending?

B) Listen again and find this information.

1. How long was the flight to Brussels delayed?

2. What did he do when he got to Brussels?

3. When did he remember his coat?

4. What gate did he need for the flight to Manchester?

5. How did he get to the plane?

Exercise 4. Answer the questions.

1. How often do you travel by air?

2. Do you enjoy flying? Why? Why not?

3. Has anything interesting happened to you while flying?

Exercise 5. Listen to the message on Rosa' voicemail. Choose the correct words.

1. The caller's name is Sandy/Henry.

2. The flight is to Athens/Chicago.

3. He says that something has come up/changed.

4. He can't leave nоw till Friday/ Thursday.

Rosa's secretary leaves her a note about the telephone call. Complete the note.

Rosa,

_____________rang just before 2 p.m. He wants to know whether you've booked the flight to _____________ , because something has ____________and he can't leave now till __________. Please give him а call.

Exercise 6.

Two Weeks in Another Town

(abridged)

By lrving Shaw

It was a cold gray day without wind. By nightfall it would rain. There was the spasmodic engine whine of unseen planes. The plane from New York had been delayed and the echoing voice had announced in French and English over the public-address system that the flight for Rome had been put back bv a half-hour.

The usual gloom of airports, that mixture of haste and apprehension which has become the atmosphere of travel because nobody waits comfortably for the take-off of an airplane, was intensified by the weather. The neon light made everyone look poor and unwell. There was a feeling that if each traveler had the chance to choose again, he would gladly cancel his passage and go by boat or train or automobile.

In a corner of the restaurant a man and a woman waited, drinking coffee.

Then the voice in French and English announced that the passengers were asked to pass through Customs: the plane for Rome, flight #804 was ready and loading. The man hurried past the Customs and out on to the wet tarmac toward the waiting plane. As the plane taxied off toward the starting point on the runway, the man saw his wife and children, outside the restaurant, waved, then settled back in his seat, relieved. The plane gathered speed and took off.

Date: 2015-12-18; view: 2040