Travelling. Holiday-Making. Environmental Protection

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Vocabulary

Air travel – путешествие по воздуху

Beauty spots – красивые места

Be swarming with tourists – кишеть туристами

Bird’s eye view – вид с высоты птичьего полета

Cable railways – канатная дорога

Camping equipment – снаряжение для кемпинга

Camp site – палаточный лагерь

Chemical waste – химические отходы

Cut down forests – вырубать леса

Discharge sewage into rivers – сливать нечистоты в реки

Do sightseeing – осматривать достопримечательности

Environment – окружающая среда

Get a tan – загореть

Get back to nature – вернуться к природе

Laze around – бездельничать

Litter – мусор

Off the beaten track – в малоизученных местах

Package tour – организованная туристическая поездка

Put up the tent – устанавливать палатку

Play it off the cuff – действовать по обстановке

Pollute – загрязнять

Pollution – загрязнение

Sea travel – путешествие по морю

See the sights – осматривать достопримечательности

Sleep rough – спать под открытым небом

Snorkel – плавать под водой

Soak up the sun – загорать

Sunbathe – загорать

Take a chance with the weather – повезти с погодой

Tourism – туризм

Tourist – турист

Travel agency – бюро путешествий

Travel for pleasure – путешествовать ради удовольствия

Wind-surf – заниматься виндсерфингом.

Read and translate the following passages. Then discuss the problem and tell your own opinion

For 30 years the Crowchester Chemical Company has got rid of its waste by dumping it in the River Crow or by burning it. Most of the people living in Crowchester work for the company, so there have been few complaints. Recently, however, doctors at the local hospital found that cases of throat cancer in Crowchester were 20 times higher than the national average and tests proved that air and water pollution were responsible.

Mrs Mabel Bloxford, the wife of a former employee of the Crowchester Chemical Company who is suffering from throat cancer – Last year when my husband found out that he had cancer, the doctor advised us to leave Crowchester. We planned to buy a farm 50 miles away. But before we could save enough money for the deposit, he lost his job. Now we’ll never be able to get away from here.

Leonard Miles, editor of the local newspaper – For the last 30 years, Crowchester Chemical Company has not only blackened our skies and polluted our rivers, it has been slowly and surely poisoning us in our own homes. Other big companies treat their chemical waste. Not Crowchester Chemical Company. They think that money is more important than our comfort and our health. And the suffering of Crowchester cannot be measured in terms of pounds and pence. 37 people are seriously ill. Hundreds more are living in misery. The Crow River will never again be fit for drinking water. Crowchester Chemical Company must compensate us all for the trouble and the suffering they have brought among us.

Brian Thatcher, a lawyer representing local cancer victims – We are suing for over a million pounds in compensation, and we’re also asking for a court order to close the factory. I’m confident that we shall win. What worries me is that it’s impossible to stop this kind of thing until it’s too late. The Government should have introduced strict pollution controls long ago.

Henry Murdoch, the president of Crowchester Chemical Co. – I do not accept that my company is responsible. We can’t be held responsible. If people choose to work here or live nearby, they must accept the risks. We did not bring the company to the town. The town grew up round the chemical factory. And part of the reason the town is such a thriving community today, is because of my company. Of course, there is a little pollution. There is always pollution in the chemical industry. It can’t be helped because this country needs chemicals. Crowchester needs chemicals too – without this company 3000 people would be jobless.

Veronica Wade, a Member of Parliament – Already many towns are worse than Crowchester. If we don’t act soon, this country will become uninhabitable. Pollution is a crime against society and must be punished. I propose to fix strict limits for discharge of pollution. All companies which exceed the limits negligently will pay heavy fines. All companies which exceed these limits deliberately will be closed and their managers will go to prison.

Say what do you do personally to protect the environment? Share with other students. And what should we do to save our planet?

Read and translate the given texts. Who is right in this situation?

Litter

Last weekend Nick West was jogging along a popular path when he stumbled on a broken bottle and injured his leg. He wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper complaining about litter.

Nick West. People who leave litter behind them are anti-social. They spoil the countryside and create all sorts of danger for other people. Broken bottles and rusty cans cause serious injuries, especially to children. Old magazines and empty packages help to start fires when fools throw away matches and cigarette butts. Why can’t people be more careful?

Ann Scott, a housewife with two children. Dropping litter is a disgusting habit. If you don’t do it in your won house why should you do it anywhere else? I never drop litter and I don’t allow my children too. Unfortunately, most parents these days don’t bring their children up properly. It’s a mother’s duty to teach her children how to behave and to set a good example herself.

Linda Mitchell, a member of a local anti-litter group. I belong to an anti-litter group. Recently we cleaned up a beach. We collected over 150 tons of garbage. We burned half of it and we sold the rest to scrap dealers for $ 100. We spent that money on litter cans which we placed at regular intervals along the beach. Every local government ought to do same thing.

Nina Haines, a journalist of the local newspaper. The problem of litter reflects a lack of responsibility on all sides. The local government has a duty to provide litter cans and the citizens have a duty to use them. The police have a duty to report people who litter public places and the courts have a duty to punish such people. Last, but not least, the companies which manufacture throw-away products should stop using materials which can’t be burned or recycled.

Fred Hurst, a representative of the local council. There’s not much we can do. There are a thousand square miles of countryside around this town. We can’t afford to supply a million litter cans to empty them regularly. Why should local taxpayers be responsible for litter left by holiday visitors from other towns?

Reg Giles, a local policeman. Littering is a crime and carries a heavy penalty. But the police are too busy preventing serious crime to worry about litter. If someone drops a ton of poisonous chemical waste in the forest, we’ll try to catch him, but we can’t arrest everyone who leaves a few empty cans around after a picnic. We’re policemen, not babysitters.

Albert Greaves, the manager of a soft drinks company. We used to sell drinks in glass bottles and we refunded a little money when empty bottles were returned to us, because we could wash them and use them again. But glass is heavy and breaks easily, so we changed to plastic. It’s cheap, light, strong and unbreakable. Of course, we don’t collect empty bottles because it’s cheaper to make new ones.

Look at different symbols and pictures. Make up your own symbol and motto for protecting the environment. Work in groups

Read and translate the text. Do you agree or disagree with the author?

The only way to travel is on foot.

The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists. Descriptions like “Paleolithic Man”, “Neolithic Man”, etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label “Legless Man”. Histories of the time will go something like this: “In the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and Women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts and escalators in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. This situation was forced upon earth-dwellers of that time because of their extraordinary way of life. In those days people thought nothing of travelling hundreds of miles each day. But the surprising thing is that they didn’t use their legs even when they went on holiday. They built cable railways, ski-lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain. All the beauty spots on earth were marred by the presence of large car parks.”

The future history books might also record that we were deprived of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird’s eye views of the world – or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way. When you travel by car or plane a blurred image of the countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, in particular, are forever obsessed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop.

And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves mention. It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song: “I joined the navy to see the world, and what did I see? I saw the sea.”The typical twentieth – century traveler is the man who always says, “I’ve been there.” You mention the remotest, most evocative place names in the world like El Dorado, Kabul, Irkutsk and somebody is bound to say “I’ve been there” – meaning, “I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.”

When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place. But actual arrival, when it is achieved, is meaningless. You want to move on again. But travelling like this, you suspend all experience; the present ceases to be a reality; you might just as well be dead.

The traveler on foot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present. For him travelling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes. He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body. At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical weariness. He knows that sound satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travelers.

Describe the given pictures about the travelling

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