TRAVELLING AS A PART OF LIFE

TRAVELLING by TRAIN
Topical Vocabulary
to have at one’s disposal/service to run to/behind schedule
a passenger/fast/express/local/through train to leave on the dot
a carriage with numbered reserved seats a terminal station/junction
a compartment car, a sleeping-car a fellow-passenger
to book a single/one-way ticket a guard/conductor/train
attendant
to buy a return /round trip ticket in advance at a reduced fare
to make reservation to cancel booking
a buffet/dining/restaurant car to get on a lower/upper berth
a suitcase/a duffel-bag a waiting hall
to catch/miss/board the train an inquiry/information office
a lost-property/lost and found office a left-luggage office/check
room
a luggage rack to bring in bedding
inbound/incoming train outbound/departing train
to change trains a station master
TRAVELLING by SEA
Topical Vocabulary
sea/river cruises to promenade the deck
a high seas adventure to sit in a deck-chair
to be a good/poor sailor/a sea dog to leave/sail for distant lands
to have sea legs to reserve berths/cabins
to lower/raise gangway to drop/cast anchor
in a rough/stormy sea to weigh/lift anchor
cabins and staterooms to suffer from seasickness
to be out at sea to feel/get/be seasick
to call at a port/harbour life-belts/life jackets
to get shipwrecked to go aground

TRAVELLING by PLANE
Topical Vocabulary
a flight attendant/stewardess/air hostess to go through security
take-off, (emergency) landing a boarding pass
a terminal building, an airport land side to take off from the runway
an airport lounge, a departure lounge to fasten/strap one’s belt
to weigh one’s baggage to adjust a seat, an adjustable seat
hand/hold luggage an overhead locker
to board the plane to get motion sick/air-sick
to go through passport control to collect one’s bags
excess luggage/excess baggage baggage reclaim (zone)/carrousel
to register oneself/check in to pass through Customs
to show one’s passport at passport control international, domestic flights

CINEMA
Topical Vocabulary
motion pictures/films/movies/pictures cinema-goers/ film-goers
to adapt a novel for the screen a film director and a scriptwriter
to shoot/produce/make a film a cameraman, a costume designer
to have an enormous impact an art director, a producer
to have an influential role to star in a film, to co-star
a star studded film to play the leading/key role
to show films on a wide screen a small/supporting/minor role
to release a picture to win/gain an award (title)
to leave deep and lasting impression to make the most of the role
to have an outstanding cast to outshine everybody else
to be miscast to win critical acclaim
film genres: comedies, Westerns, thrillers a flop, to go flop
animated-cartoons, detective films a trailer

THEATRE
 Topical Vocabulary
drama school/playhouse
Opera and Ballet House
amateur/touring theatre groups
to get absorbed in the magic world
to perform/play/act/sing/dance the part of
to get/buy the tickets beforehand
the usher shows smb to smb’s seats
to be a regular/great theatre goer
to prefer matinee/evening performance
a marvelously staged performance
to give actors a big hand/to applaud
to take smb’s seats
open-air theatres, puppet-theatre
to leave a coat in the cloak-room
to provide a rich repertoire
to be a success/a failure
stalls, boxes, balcony, gallery
the production is first-rate/decent
first night/premiere/debut
to draw capacity crowds
to be presented with flowers
brilliant talented acting
a prompt-box, a prompter
a play in three acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Topical Vocabulary
to fight pollution/contamination to affect climate
to abuse nature to intensify greenhouse effect
to disfigure the landscape the fresh-water-supply problem
to create landfills/dumps oil spills/offshore oil wells
to dump on the ground/in the river fertile soil/derelict land
to emit into the atmosphere fertilizes, pesticides, herbicides
combustion processes extinction of flora and fauna
to create disaster-prevention programs to be environment-conscious
to damage the ozone layer acid rains
to install purification equipment to reduce the air pollution index
to preserve woodlands, to protect wildlife to plant “green belts”

POLLUTION IN UKRAINE
 Topical Vocabulary
treatment and storage of toxic waste
emissions of sulphur dioxide
harmful substances
leaded gasoline
an inefficient engine
municipal waste-water contamination
surface waters
low freshwater endowment of the basin
emission of harmful gases
widespread use of insecticides
to be fraught with fatal consequences
to pose fatal risks to health
radiation sickness
the increase of the sea’s salinity
to deteriorate/deterioration
a nuclear power station
spontaneous abortions
to work out a regulation
thyroid cancer/leukemia
RAW/radioactive waste
to reach threatening proportions
to deplete the local flora