UNIT 10

### SUMMER HOLIDAYS

### Lesson 1. How to Travel?

Getting ready for the task:

• Who do you like to travel with?
• What form of transport do you like for travelling?
• What form of transport do you prefer? Why?

Key words:

a vehicle - a thing used for transporting people or goods
an advantage - a thing that helps you to be better or more successful
cruise - a voyage on a ship or boat taken for pleasure
journey - traveling from one place to another
to bump into - to meet smb by chance
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IW/PW. Name all the vehicles in the picture and practise the model: I like to travel by air, because it’s fast and comfortable.

GRAMMAR FOCUS

to go on ... | to go by ... | to go+ing | to go in/on
a holiday business a trip a cruise an excursion a journey | car train bicycle bus motorbike underground | shopping windsurfing walking skiing swimming fishing | in a car in a taxi on a plane on a bus on a ship on a train

LISTEN AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS!
Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   A) the main transport in London
   B) the shortest metro system in the world
   C) a Christmas Day in London
   D) All kinds of advertisements
   E) buses in London
2. Choose the correct statement according to the passage.
   A) It is the longest metro system in the world.
   B) The first trains run from about 01:00.
   C) The Underground operates on Christmas Day.
   D) There are advertisements on the walls of the Tube.
   E) The London Underground was opened in 1963.
3. Match the parts of the sentences according to the passage.
   There are (1) … lines and the network carries approximately (2) … million
   passengers a day. The Underground system has got (3) … stations.
   a) two hundred and seventy
   b) eleven
   c) five

   A) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a | B) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c | C) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a | D) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b | E) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c

4. Answer the question according to the passage.
   Why do people prefer the tube to buses?
5. Complete the sentence according to the passage.
   You can recognize the tube by its sign: a … circle crossed with a … stripe.
   What colours are they?