Activities on topic"Travelling"
материал по английскому языку (9 класс) по теме

1. Listen to the airport announcements and match the words with their definitions.

1) Gate                                           a) place in an airport where you sit  and wait just before you get  

                                                            on the plane

2)Duty free store                         b) bags and cases that you take with you when you are travelling

3) Flight                                         c) place at an airport where you show your ticket, give them your  

                                                            bags and get a boarding card

4)Baggage                                     d) journey on a plane

5)Departure lounge                     e) make something late

6)Check-in-desk                            f) place where your bags are checked for goods that you should

                                                            not bring into the country

7)Terminal                                      g) piece of card with your name and seat number printed on it;

                                                              you show it before you get on a plane or ship

8)Customs                                       h) place where you leave the airport building to get on a plane

9)Delay                                             i) shops at airports  that sell some goods which you can buy

                                                                without paying tax on them

10)Boarding card                             j) large building at an airport where people begin and end their

                                                                Journey

2. Arrange the following jumbled sentences into 3 dialogues and act out them in pairs

1. Do you know your flight number?
2. Thank you. Well… Your flight number is 578, British Airway. It is check-in-desk number six.
3. Pardon me?
4. Thank you.
5. Excuse me. I`m flying to London. Which check –in-desk should I go to?
6. Could I see your ticket?
7. Number six?
8. Yes, here it is.
9. What is your flight number?
10. Um. I`m afraid not.
11. Along the corridor… and to the left.
12. Right.
13. Yes. It`s just along the corridor, to the left.

1. Oh, it`s easy. Can you see that Delta sing on the right?
2. Thank you.
3. Turn left at the sing and go along the corridor.
4. Excuse me, Miss. Can you help me, please? I can`t find Gate 12.
5. Umm… Yes, sure.

1. Oh, that`s easy. Go straight ahead and then turn right at theQANTAS sign.
2. Excuse me. I need to get to Gate9…
3. Thank you very much.

2. Complete the dialogue

Good morning.

Good morning.

What?

Well.

Venice.

Certainly.

August.

For seven days?

Yes.

That`s right.

How many?

Just one.

A package?

The package.

Alone?

Yes.

$697.

Sounds great!

Nice hotel?

Oh yes.

All right.

on a power trip

exercising power and authority, especially unduly.

Have a safe trip. and Have a safe journey.

I hope that your journey is safe.; Be careful and assure that your journey is safe

trip the light fantastic

1. Inf. to criticize someone. There's no need to lay a trip on me. I agree with you. When he finally does get there, I'm going to lay a heavy trip on him like he'll never forget.

2. Inf. to confuse or astonish someone. After he laid a heavy trip on me about how the company is almost broke, I cleaned out my desk and left. After Mary laid a trip on John about leaving him, all he could do was cry.

3. and lay a guilt trip on someone Inf. to attempt to make someone feel very guilty.Why do you have to lay a guilt trip on me? Why don't you go to a shrink? Of course, she just had to lay a trip on him about being bossy, self-centered, and aloof.

4. Inf. to reveal serious or devastating information to someone. That's a powerful story. I didn't know you were going to lay a heavy trip like that on me. Man, you really laid a trip on me.

round-trip ticket

a ticket (for a plane, train, bus, etc.) that allows one to go to a destination and return

rip someone up 

1. Lit. to cause someone to trip; to entangle someone's feet. (Someone includesoneself.) The rope strewn about the deck tripped him up. The lines tripped up the crew.

2. Fig. to cause someone to falter while speaking, thinking, etc. Mary came in while the speaker was talking and the distraction tripped him up. The noise in the audience tripped up the speaker.

trip along

to move along happily

trip on someone or something and trip over someone or something

to stumble on someone or something.

trip the light fantastic

Jocular to dance

a guilt trip  (informal)

a strong feeling of guil

an ego trip

something that you do in order to make yourself feel important Running the university Film Society is a big ego trip for her.

See also: ego

roll/trip off the tongue

if a word or phrase trips off the tongue, it is very easy to say The band is called 'Acquired Echoes'. It doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, does it?

See also: roll, tongue

send somebody on a guilt trip  (British informal) also lay/put a guilt trip onsomebody (American informal)

to make someone feel very guilty I'm tired of environmentalists who put a guilt trip on the rest of us for causing pollution with our life styles. She's sent me on a guilt trip about my treatment of Steven.

See also: guilt, send

take a stroll/trip down memory lane

to remember some of the happy things that you did in the past We were just taking a stroll down memory lane and recalling the days of our youth.

See commit to memory, jog memory, have a memory like a sieve

See also: lane, memory, stroll, take

trip the light fantastic  (humorous)

to dance There I was, tripping the light fantastic in a sequinned ballgown.

See take a stroll down memory lane, roll off the tongue

See also: light

Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. Reproduced with permission.

trip somebody up also trip up somebody

to cause someone to make a mistake The lawyer used what he knew about her personality to trip her up in court. I did fine on most of the test, but I tripped up on the last problem.

4.Match  the idioms with the meaning

on a power trip- be careful and assure that your journey is safe

round-trip ticket- exercising power and authority, especially unduly

trip along- a ticket (for a plane, train, bus, etc.) that allows one to go to a destination and return

trip the light fantastic-. to cause someone to trip; to entangle someone's feet

trip someone up - Jocular to dance

Have a good trip- to move along happily

Have a safe trip- to criticize someone;  to confuse or astonish someone

lay a (heavy) trip on someone - have a pleasant journey

1) Old Molly is off on a power trip again. She loves ordering everyone about.

2 )As Sue stepped onto the plane, someone in a uniform said, "Have a nice trip." "Have a good trip," said Bill, waving his good-byes.

3) Bill: Well, we're off for London. Sally: Have a safe trip. Bill: You're driving all the way to San Francisco? Bob: Yes, indeed. Bill: Well, have a safe trip.

4)  There's no need to lay a trip on me. I agree with you. When he finally does get there, I'm going to lay a heavy trip on him like he'll never forget.

5) A round-trip ticket is usually cheaper than two one-way tickets. How much is a round-trip ticket to San Francisco?

6) he rope strewn about the deck tripped him up. The lines tripped up the crew.

7) The kids tripped along on their way to school. We were just tripping along, not having any notion of what was about to happen

8) Shall we go trip the light fantastic?)