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Travelling

tory with all its daily demands on us. We need to rest our eyes on unfamiliar horizons and imagine what may be beyond them. We are also programmed by now to move fast and to be impatient of things that get in our way. It is certainly the case that we calcu­ late our success in life according to our ability to afford expensive holidays in farflung places, so status is involved in all of this too. In the power of the car we drive, the frequency and the distance of our travels and our easy familiarity with foreign places and foreign ways. We have lost the ability to be still and probably will re­ discover it until the air is so thick with planes and the earth with vehicles that a quiet afternoon on the sofa with a good book will at last seem the most blissful escape into sanity and the best way of broadening the mind that it has always been.

Aural Comprehension Text 3:

A T THE BRITISH TRAVEL CENTRE

Mr. MacGregor works in a travel agency in London. Listen to him talking about the British Travel Centre:

The British Travel Centre, only two minutes’ walk from Piccadilly Circus, offers the most comprehensive travel information and booking service in London. The British Travel Centre books coach, rail, air and arranges car hire, reserves guided sightseeing tours, theatre tickets and accommodation, changes currency and, of course, provides information on the whole of the UK. An excellent travel bookshop at the British Travel Centre contains hundreds of different maps and travel guides which help you save time and money during your stay here. We are open seven days a week, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 12 Regent Street, near Piccadilly Circus.

Section I. Exercise 7

Exercise 7. Cloze Test

Listen to the dialogue entitled At a Hotel and then fill in the following blanks:

1.I would like a single room.

2.Have you booked a room?

3.We are very full at present.

4.How long are you going to stay?

5.Here’s your key, sir.

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Unit 6

Aural Comprehension Text 4:

A T A HOTEL

Receptionist: Good evening, sir. How can I help you?

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