C) Listen again and check.

Complete the summaries of the interviews below.

Marylin Wexler has been a travel agent for (1) years. Her work used to be very different because today people can do part of the travel agent’s job themselves using the (2). Today she gets more challenging tasks, like a 13 family members’ (3) or an Arctic Circle trip. Most of work comes from twenty regular clients, who are (4) on travelling and trust Marylin’s opinion. She loves the (5) she works for and professional colleagues are her best source of information.

Marylin considers her (6) to be the best part of her job, though some can be rather unpredictable. Most of them (7) Marylin’s work and even send her souvenirs.

David Sierge’s job is arranging (8) trips. He agrees that his job is one of the (9) in the word and the reasons for it are the following. He doesn’t bring (10) home from work, because there’s actually nothing to be stressed about. His job is to help people make their lives better by bringing their (11) to life and that makes David feel excited. Even the (12) do not trouble David. He’s eager to help the ones that have real problems and doesn’t bother with the unpleasant people (13) with their lives. One more plus of David’s job is everyday (14) communication, which proves to him that the world is small.

4. Look at the phrases below. Are they used by travel agents or their clients?

Welcome to Happy Trails Travel Agency. Are you travelling alone? What is the purpose of your trip? What holidays do you have on offer? I need help planning my vacation. I have some brochures here that you might like to look at. Could you tell me something about it? And how long does the tour last? Sure, what do you want to know? When is the man's departure date? How much money is in your budget for this trip? What tour would you recommend? Great! You’ve been very helpful. OK, let me just take down your details. That’s my job! Take care!

A) You are going to role-play a conversation at the travel agency. Get your cards from the teacher. You have 3 minutes to prepare for the conversation.

B) Role-play the conversation in pairs.

LESSON 8: A SOUND OF THUNDER

Read the nursery rhyme. Choose the correct idea(s) behind it.

For Want of a Nail

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

a) It’s used to explain children the possible events that may follow a thoughtless act.

b) It shows that small actions can result in large aftereffect.

c) The rhyme is thus a good illustration of the "butterfly effect", a small change at one place can result in large differences to a later state.

A) Read an excerpt from A Sound of Thunder, a short story written in 1952 by an American science fiction and mystery writer Ray Bradbury. Discuss the questions that follow in pairs.

The sign on the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water. Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare, and the sign burned in this momentary darkness:

TIME SAFARI, INC.
SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST.
YOU NAME THE ANIMAL.
WE TAKE YOU THERE.
YOU SHOOT IT.

Warm phlegm gathered in Eckels' throat; he swallowed and pushed it down. The muscles around his mouth formed a smile as he put his hand slowly out upon the air, and in that hand waved a check for ten thousand dollars to the man behind the desk.

"Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?"

"We guarantee nothing," said the official, "except the dinosaurs." He turned. "This is Mr. Travis, your Safari Guide in the Past. He'll tell you what and where to shoot. If he says no shooting, no shooting. If you disobey instructions, there's a stiff penalty of another ten thousand dollars, plus possible government action, on your return."

Where is Eckels?

What is he going to do?

What are the rules for the trip?

What does “government action” mean?

How dangerous is this trip in your opinion?

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