UNIT 8

TRAVEL

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 READING

STARTING POINT

1.Which form of transport do you usually use to go to

work/travel on business / go on holiday?
2.Do you often travel on business? On holiday?
3.What is your favorite destination?
4.What do you like about travelling? What do you not like?
READING
In the past, business travel was cool and exciting. But interviews
with 1.600 travelers show modern travel is stressfull and boring.
Nowadays, this rarely happens. Most modern travelers expect to
be late. The problems start at check in. There are long queues at
passport control and the gate. Then if the planes aren’t late, they can
often be cancelled.
Everyone agrees this is important, but the rules for bags and
hand luggage are making journey longer.
47% don’t get proper sleep. Business class helps, and the
difference between a window or aisle seat can improve a journey, but
more and more companies are saving money and choosing economy
class for their employees.
The successful business trip includes high-speed connections to
the internet at the airport terminal and hotel
 Answer the following questions

1.How was business travels in the past?

2. Based on the interview, why is modern travel stressful anf boring?
3. What problems can arise with the procedures of traveling by
plane?
4. What must hotels and terminals have to make the successful
business trip?
 VOCABULARY

EXERCISE 1
1.Show your ticket and passport here and get your boarding card ...
2. Get on the plane here .....
3. Show your passport here .....
4. Two types of tickets ......
5. Pack this and carry it onto the plane .....
6. Pack this and check them in ......
7. Building when you arrive and leave .....
8. Lines of people ....
9. When the plane doesn’t go .......
10. Two places to sit on the plane ......
EXERCISE 2

Complete the sentences using the words given on the list

credit card room table room service
internet access reservation breakfast wake-up call
1.I have a ........for tonight.
2. Can I see your ........please?
3. Your ......... is on the fifth floor.
4. What time is ......served?
5. Do I need to book a ....... ?
6. This is Miss Chiang in room 51. Can I have a ......?
7. Do the rooms have ......? I can’t log on.
8. I’d also like dinner in my room. Do you have .....?
EXERCISE 3

Choose the best word to fit the gap

1.You need to ..... your seat 24 hours before departure or they may
cancel your reservation
a. book c. reconfirm
b. register d. arrange
2. Their flight was delayed due to engine .....
a. failure c. collapse
b. defeat d. crash
3. Please send us a copy of her .... so that we can arrange transport
a. journey c. map
b. itinerary d. route
4. The hotel restaurant is not open 24 hours, but room ...... is always
available
a. menu c. catering
b. waiter d. service
5. The journey took ages. We were stuck in a traffic .... as soon as
we left the airport
a. stop c. accident
b. light d. island
6. Before negotiating a deal make sure you know the strength and
weaknesses of .... product
a. competing c. conflicting
b. commanding d. connecting
7. A good sales person can ......almost anybody to buy anything
a. satisfy c. appeal
b. persuade d. adapt
8. Once they agreed terms, the deal was pushed ...... very quickly
a. over c. through
b. in d. by
9. The goods will be delivered by Wednesday at the ......
a. last c. longest
b. least d. latest
10. The most effective sales technique is one which tells the
customer how the product will .....
a. better c. improve
b. profit d. benefit
 STRUCTURE

Comparative and Superlative

Study these examples

Comparative
Let’s go by car. It’s cheaper
Don’t go by train. It’s more expensive
It’s cheaper to go by car than to go by train

Cheaper and more expensive are comparative forms

After comparatives we use than
We use –er for the comparative of short adjectives and adverbs
Cheap/cheaper hard/harder large/larger thin/thinner

We prefer –er with some two syllable adjectives, especially

adjectives ending in –y
lucky/luckier funny/funnier narrow/narrower
quiet/quieter clever/cleverer pretty/prettier
early/earlier easy/easier simple/simpler

We use more.....(not –er) for other two-syllable adjectives and

longer adjectives
more modern more quietly more careful
more carefully more comfortable more slowly
more serious more seriously
Superlatives
What’s the longest river in the world?
What was the most enjoyable holiday you’ve ever had?
Yesterday was the hottest day of the year

Longest and the most enjoyable are superlative form

We use –est or most ..... to form the superlative of adjectives and
adverbs. In general, we use –est for shorter words and most ..... for
longer words

Long/longest hot/hottest easy/easiest hard/hardest

But
Most famous most boring most difficult most expensive
 EXERCISE

Complete these sentences by the correct form of comparatives or

superlatives
1.More expensive hotels are usually ...... (comfortable) than .....
(cheap) ones.
2. Could you speak a bit .....(slowly)?
3. This jacket is too small. I need a ....(large) size.
4. Passengers are asked to wait in the departure lounge and watch the
screens for .....(far) information.
5. The ......(expensive) option is to take a taxi
6. They would be ....(happy) in their jobs and so they’d be .....
(polite) to customers
7. The hotter the food is, ..... (hard) it is to eat
8. Alaska is ..... (cold) of all the states in the United States.
9. The directions to the exercise say to choose ..... (appropriate)
response
10. Protein molecules are......(complex) than the molecules of
carbohydrates
 LANGUAGE FUNCTION

Hi, Jana. Hope you’re feeling better

I’m afraid I won’t be able to see you on Thursday
Let me know when you’re next going to be in town
Look forward to hearing from you

Your training manager has asked me to write to you

It’s about organizing language training
I’ll call you at the end of the week
If you have any queries, please call me
Saying thank you

Many thanks for helping out with the conference

I would like to apologize for the problems we had
Let’s hope we have better luck next time

I would like to invite you to lunch next week

Are you free for lunch for Friday?
Let me know if you can come
Many thanks for the invitation
I’d love to come
We are sorry to inform you that Raj Singh has left the company
I was very sorry to hear about Raj
Please pass on my best wishes
 DIALOGUE

Match the two parts of the sentences

1.I’m sorry to inform you that I ............
2. I’ll call you when I ...............
3. Let me know when you are next ............
4. I’d like to thank you for ..............
5. I look forward to ......
6. I hope that the party ......
7. Unfortunately, the event clashes with .........
8. It was very kind of you ......
9. I need to tell you what is .........
a. hearing all your news
b. goes well
c. all your help
d. (going to be) in London
e. will be out of the office next week
f. to invite me
g. happening next week
h. get back to Cairo
i. an important meeting