Reading Tack. Read the text
Travel is something that people do every day. It is very difficult to avoid the need to mavel
It may be a trip to school university or to work. Travelling can often take a long time, especially
when rent distances need to be covered. People often enjoy travelling abroad for holidays.
However, for some people travelling is not fun at all. Some people suffer from travel sickness
This means that they will become unwell cach time they travel
Travelling can be either affordable or costly. I often depends on how far you want to travel
and the choice of transport. Using a bicycle will not cost anything as you power it by using your
legs. However, the use of a bicycle can be hard work and can take a lot of time to travel long
distances. Cars and motorcycles are faster modes of transport, but they are more expensive to use
as gasoline is needed for them to work. It can usually be assumed that the longer you wish to
travel, the more expensive and time consuming it will be
The use of a plane is necessary for people wanting to travel very long distances. A pilot
will ny a plane from an airport for many thousands of miles to take people to places far away.
Although traffic is rarely a problem for airplanes, it can take a lot of preparation to travel by
plane. People often need to arrive at the airport three hours prior to departure.
A train is another mode of transport which is ideal for travelling long distances within the
same country, or between countries which are connected by land. A train driver will stop at train
stations on route to allow passengers wishing to proceed to the scheduled destination to board the
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A number of destinations can be travelled to by using the sea. People often depart from a
harbour in a ferry which is driven by a captain. If the joumey is a long distance, people may
choose to sleep on the ferry while they wait to arrive at their destination. Some people choose to
go on a cruise for their holiday, which would involve stopping at many different city ports for a
short amount of time. People who need to travel short distances may choose not to use any
transport at all. People often rely on their legs to take them to places nearby and they walk. This
is often encouraged as certain modes of transport have been said to produce harmful emissions
and damage the environment
Answer the questions.
1. Which mode of transport does not cost money?
2. Why do some people not enjoy travelling?
3. Which mode of transport is ideal for travelling between countries connected by land?
Writing
you had.
Task 2. Write a descriptive essay about the most exciting experience of travelling that
You should:
use Present Perfect Simple to share your experience,
link your ideas into paragraphs with three four basic connectors
• punctuate your work correctly,
• pay attention to the spelling of the words.
2. Nowadays social workers are involved in a broad area of work.
3. Poor and suffering people are helped by charitable organizations.
4. The early volunteer social worker were attached to hospitals, courts and prisons.
4. One evening, an 11-year old boy, John Somers nicknamed 'Carrots' was turned away because the shelter was full.
5. He was found dead two days later from malnutrition and exposure and from then on the home bore the sign 'No Destitute Child Ever Refused Admission'.
11. Writing was invented a long time after the first map was drawn. A) True
12. The first map was a map of the night sky. A) True
13. The first map was made by the Babylonians. B) False
14. Babylonian map-makers were very rich men. C) Not known
15. Magellan's explorations helped the map-makers to Im¬prove their maps. A) True
16. Our planet is a perfect sphere. B) False
17. Modern maps are more detailed and accurate. A) True
18. The Amazon rainforest is gradually disappearing. A) True
19. The level of the Aral Sea has been increasing. B) False
20. Soon the traditional printed road maps may be out of use. A) True
Maps were made long before reading and writing were invented. The earliest map that we know of is a cave painting on the Lascaux caves in France. The painting shows a part of the summer night’s sky 16500 years ago. Modern astronomers can still understand the night sky shown in the map. A four thousand year old map made by the Ba¬bylonians is still in existence. Many ancient map-makers thought that the world was flat, but explorers like Magel¬lan in the 15th century sailed around the world and helped to make better maps. Besides, measurements taken by satel¬lites show that our planet Is slightly pear-shaped (грушевидная). Satellites have also provided more accurate Information and have helped to see and map parts of the world that were lit¬tle known or never seen by humans before. Satellites have photographed the Amazon rainforest and have shown that the area the size of twenty football pitches is being cut down (сокращается) every minute. Pictures taken from space have also shown that one of the world's largest areas of inland water, the Aral Sea, has been shrinking (усыхает) very quickly. Modern satel¬lite maps show the effects of global warming and pollution and help us to understand the world around us better. More and more drivers nowadays rely on satellite navigation in their cars so the traditional road maps may not be around much longer.