1.1. Прочитайте и переведите текст:
The World’s First Packaged Tours
These days most people choose a package tour, especially when they go abroad on
holiday. They pay for their travel and accommodation in their own country, and they take
traveler’s cheques which they exchange for local money when they arrive in the foreign
country. But in the past it was very different. In fact, before the middle of the 19th century,
travelling for pleasure was rare and very expensive, and only a few rich people travelled
abroad. The man who changed all this and brought in the age of mass tourism was Thomas
Cook.
Thomas Cook was a printer in Leicester, England, and the secretary of a local church
organization, in 1841 it was his job to arrange rail travel for members of his church to a meeting in Loughborough, a round trip of twenty-two miles. This was the first world’s package
trip. After this first success, he organized many more for his church. Then in 1845 he advertised a package tour to Liverpool for the general public, and before it took place went to Liverpool to meet the hotel staff, and check the accommodation and restaurant.
He then started to organize trips all over Britain, including the Great Exhibition in
London. In 1851 he published the world’s first travel magazine which had details of trips, advice to travelers and articles and reports about the places to visit.
In 1854 he gave up his job as a printer. In 1855 he took his first group of tourists to Paris and
later that year led tour of Belgium, Germany and France. In 1863 he went to Switzerland and
in 1864 to Italy. By then he had a million clients. The following year he opened an office in
London, which his son John Mason managed. They introduced a circular ticket which gave
the traveler a single ticket to cover one journey instead of a number of tickets from all the
railway companies involved, and they organized a system of coupons which people bought at
home and exchanged in the foreign country for a hotel room and meals.
In 1866 the first group of European tourists visited New York and the Civil War battlefields
of Virginia. In 1868 the Cooks went to the Holy Land with tents because there were no hotels
there at that time. After the Suez Canal opened in 1869, Cook created his own fleet of luxury
boats to travel up the river Nile.
It was dangerous to carry large amounts of cash, so in 1874 Cook introduced an early form of
traveler’s cheques, which travelers could cash at a number of hotels and banks around the
world.
Thomas Cook died in 1892 at the age of 84, and his son John Mason seven years later. But the
age of the package tour and mass tourism was born.
1.2. Ответьте на вопросы no тексту:
1.
Who brought in the age of mass tourism and package tours?
2.
What was Thomas Cook?
3.
When did Thomas Cook organize the first packaged trip?
4.
What were the main merits of Thomas Cook?
5.
Where did Thomas Cook create his own fleet?
1.3. Определите, являются ли предложения истинными или ложными:
1. Thomas Cook was a printer in Loughborough.
True / False
2. Thomas Cook advertised a packaged tour to Liverpool for the general public in 1845.
True / False
3. In 1851 Thomas Cook published the world’s first travel magazine.
True / False
4. In 1854 he didn’t give up his job as a printer.
True / False
5. The Cooks went to the Holy Land and stayed at a hotel there.
True / False
Задание 2
2.1. Раскройте скобки, употребив глагол в правильной форме:
1. If you think, you (to fancy) what these types of tourism are.
2. They (not to use) to promote sporting tours.
3. How many employees (to work) in this outlet next season?
4. In 1929 they (to create) the Society of Proletarian Tourism.
5. Travelling by car (not to depend) on weather conditions.
2.2. Составьте предложения, поставив слова в нужном порядке:
1. journeys / didn’t / they / Thailand / make / to.
2. weather / travelling / by / conditions / did / depend / on / not / motor-cars.
3. traveled / to / well-to-do / Switzerland / the / the / mountains / resorts / people / in / of.
4.
tours / people / did / use / wealthy / to / take / where / to?
5.
first / on / the / didn’t / oceans / passengers / all /carry / steamships.
2,3.
Завершите вопросительное предложение:
1. My parents used to travel much.
How often
2. The first travellers were nomads, pilgrims and traders.
Who
3. Railways emerged as early as in the Middle Ages.
When
4. Travelling by motor-car didn’t depend on the weather.
What
5. People were more flexible when they travelled by car.
Why
Задайте вопросы к подчеркнутым словам:
2.4.
1.
His parents used to work in tourism a couple of years ago.
2.
My mum used to handle groups of tourists.
3.
The first travelers were pilgrims and traders.
4.
Tourism developed with the development of transport.
5.
The first railways emerged in the Middle Ages.
2.5. Переведите предложения на русский язык:
1. You will attend this trade fair on Sunday.
2. All those were domestic tours.
3. He didn’t use to travel abroad.
4. Very often an employer sets a target for an employee to exceed his quota.
5. They will arrange negotiations, pre-convention and post-convention tours.
2.6. Переведите предложения на английский язык:
1. Обеспеченные путешественники обычно отдыхали в Европе.
2. Высший орган ЮНВТО - Генеральная ассамблея.
3. Мы не имели привычку ездить на курорты с минеральными водами несколько
лет тому назад.
4.
Он остался доволен путешествием на самолете.
5. Мы сначала не планировали прибыль, а только составили тур.
Задание 3
3.1. Переведите следующие словосочетания на русский язык:
1. a resort hotel
2. business facilities at airports
3. the purpose of the tour
4. from personal experience
5. incentive tours for business corporations
3.2. Переведите следующие словосочетания на английский язык:
1. развитие транспортных средств
2. довольно недорогой
3. расходы на путешествие
4. скорость, комфорт и удобства
5. международная межправительственная организация
3.3. Вставьте пропущенные предлоги:
1. Не was really impressed ______ the history______ tourism.
2. What are you going to handle ____ particular?
3. As far as I know, tourism developed _____ development _____ transport.
4. The first journeys were _____ seas, rivers and lakes.
5. Trains and cars came ______ being as transportation modes later.
3.5.
Вставьте пропущенные слова или фразы:
1. Within sports tourism there is water tourism, _________
2
tourism and
. __________________________ was one of the best-known explorers.
3. Incentive tourism means that a business company offers _____________ tours and
covers ___________________ .
4. The UN WTO is the ___________________ and
5.
3.6.
organization.
Leisure tourism is also called _____________ or _ __________ tourism.
Дайте определения следующих терминов:
1.
A resort is _________________________ ___
2.
A spa is ________________________________________
3.
The UN WTO is __________________________________
4.
Leisure tourism is ____
5.
A holiday-maker is __________________