LESSON 6 Weather, holidays and sightseeing

Texts:

1. The Smiths' holidays

2. Weather report

3. Davos and sports

4. A TV programme about Bournemouth

5. Visiting ancient Greece Sounds [9], [6]

Intonation of such sentences as /'/л afraid there has been a mistake. The Perfect Continuous Tenses

Word formation: Nouns formed with the help of the suffix -er

Special patterns and words:

to like doing smth

words describing weather

sports

words associated with the beach

Translate these basic words and expressions into Russian:

holiday camp______________________________

self-catering flat____________________________

guesthouse________________________________

youth hostel_______________________________

time-share apartment________________________

to camp/to go camping______________________

to sunbathe________________________________

to swim/to go swimming______________________

to wind-surf________________________________

to hang-glide_______________________________

to ski/to go skiing___________________________

to climb/to go climbing/to go mountaineering______

to go for a drive____________________________

to hike/to go hiking__________________________

to tour/to go touring__________________________

to do some/to go sightseeing__________________

to go on an excursion________________________

to see some places of interest_________________

to take pictures_____________________________

to have pictures developed____________________

photo album_______________________________

map______________________________________

guide ____________________________________

voucher___________________________________

travel agent________________________________

to make a booking__________________________

to reserve accommodation____________________

to feel comfortable__________________________

convenient place and time____________________

host______________________________________

hostess___________________________________

e.g. Oh, it has been raining all night long! The Perfect Continuous Tenses

Note: These tenses indicate a process that started in the past and may or may not have been completed.

Exercises -~-

a. Read the dialogue and explain the use of tenses: — Am I late?

— I have been waiting for you the last half hour.

— You are wet through.

— Yes, it has been raining.

— You look tired. Anything wrong?

— I have not been sleeping well.

— Why? Why's that? Any problem?

— I have been worrying about my exams.

— Well, tonight you can forget about them.

b. Imagine you are going home tomorrow after a wonderful camping holiday. You are speaking to someone who has just arrived. Write down the following sentences you might say using the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous Tense:

Exercises

a. Write down the words which are pronounced in the following way:

[bi:tj] _____________ __ [hou'tel]

['kotid3] _ [ru:'ti:n]

['praivasi] [ad'valisimnt]

Lmdi'pendans] ____________ [ig'zo:stid]

e. Match the descriptions and the types of places people can spend a holiday in:

holiday camp accommodation like a hotel but cheaper and with a

fewer services youth hostel a place providing holiday accommodation in little

chalets or flats, with restaurants, bars, swimming

pools and lots of other facilities and entertainments
guesthouse cheap accommodation, mainly for young people, with,

perhaps, ten or more people sleeping in bunk beds in

one room.

f. Write out the words or sentences which prove that Ian was in very low spirits
when the family came to the sea.

g. Say if you agree or disagree and describe the scenes:

■ The next evening the Smiths returned to London.

■ They found some accommodation and stayed on enjoying the holiday.

b. Sum up what you have learned about:

■ the Smiths

■ the place they live and the place where they decided to have their holiday

■ how they found the place in Cornwall i how they made the booking

■ the mistake made

с Read the following paying attention to the sounds and intonation:

that this

the name the booking

the children the whole town

1 I am a'fraid there has been a mis^V take.

2 I am 'sure we can 'do 'something for the ^ children.

3 But I'm 'afraid we 'can't 'help you and your Л wife.

d. Read the trialogue between the landlady and the couple, with your group-mates.

h. Check how well you know the words associated with holidays and write down the corresponding numbers in the picture (using the list that follows):

Prompts:
1 tent	17 deckchair
2 groundsheet	18 swimming/bathing trunks
3 sleeping bag	19 flipper
4 rucksack	20 bucket
5 camping stove	21 spade
6 cliff	22 beachball
7 bungalow/chalet	23 shell
8 promenade/sea-front	24 pebbles
9 sea-wall	25 rocks
10 beach	26 kite
11 sunshade	27 surf
12 sunbather	28 wave
13 (beach-)towel	29 motor-boat
14 mask/goggles	30 swimmer
15 snorkel	31 swirnming-/bathing-costume
16 windbreak	32 seaweed

Щ Do you know this?

It was the British who started the fashion for seaside holidays at the end of the

eighteenth century.

Nobody in Britain lives more than 120 kms away from the sea.

Many Londoners go to Brighton for the day or weekend during the summer, and

Brighton is often called 'London by the sea'.

Billy Butlin, the Canadian who started the Butlin's camps, became immensely rich

and was knighted.

English employers are not forced by law to give their employees paid holidays.

Great majority of employers have written agreements with the employees giving

them three or four weeks' paid holiday a year, not counting the eight days of na-

tional holidays. _________________________________________________,

i. Write a short essay Sad weather cannot spoil summer holidays.

The following words describing hot weather may be of help:

stiffing scorching.,

boiling humid

a heatwave a drought

2. Weather report

(a clip from a newspaper)

Most places will start dry with sunny periods, but rain will spread to Northern Ireland, south-west Scotland and Wales during the morning, and will spread to all parts, except northern Scotland, by evening. Over the Highlands of Scotland, there may be some sleet or snow. Meanwhile, dry weather with sunny periods will reach Northern Ireland and west Wales during the afternoon. This dry weather with clear periods will spread to all of England during the evening, but Scotland will remain cloudy with outbreaks of rain. Cooler than yesterday.

Outlook: Bright intervals, heavy showers

Exercises

a. Have another look at the weather report and say what month of the year the report
relates to, to your mind. Say why you think so.,

b. Make a few sentences of your own describing the weather in different parts of Europe that day:

marvellous

windy

с Translate into English paying attention to tenses:

Погода стоит прекрасная.

Дождь идет с самого утра.

Вчера весь день шел снег, а сегодня он уже растаял.

Мне кажется, что завтра будет очень хорошая погода.

Когда он вышел из дома, светило солнце.

Когда он мне звонил, дождь уже шел часа два.

f. Form compound nouns matching the following words:
e.g. thunderstorm

thunder hail stones drift

down snow storm warning

heat gale wave pour

g. Complete the following sentences the way you find appropriate:

1 The storm damaged several houses_______________

2 They got wet in the thunderstorm_________________

3 Hailstones were battering the roof of our car________

4 The sky is a bit overcast, it may__________________

5 There has been a gale warning, it would be crazy_____

6 When people heard there was a hurricane on the way they

d. Sort out the following words into two columns: those referring to wet weather and those relating to cold weather:

damp, chilly, frosty, drizzle, flood, shower, hailstones, torrential rain, sleet, slush, bizzards, to thaw, to melt, to pour down

cold weather

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