VIII. Воспроизведите диалоги урока.

Isn't he going to book a return ticket! No, he isn't.

1. Peter promised to call for us at 5. 2. She has caught only the 9 o'clock train. 3. He is going to leave from Kiev Station. 4. We shall travel second class. 5. Our journey to Odessa was the most pleasant. 6. The buyers are interested in Model-10. 7. Our office required April shipment. 8. We can buy power equipment from a French firm.

XI. Подтвердите или опровергните следующие утверждения:

1. Yon are quite right. Quite so. Yes, certainly. 2. I don't think so. I'm afraid it's not so.

1. It will take you less time to get to Petersburg by train than by plane. 2. It is always more convenient to book single tickets than return tickets. 3. It is more pleasant to travel by air than by railway. 4. It is convenient to go by a through train. 5. There are always many visitors at Russian exhibitions abroad. 6. There are dining-cars on all through trains. 7. It is more convenient to travel third class than to travel first class. 8. You won't have to change trains to get to London. 9. You can reserve accommodation for any train at the Intourist booking-office. 10. Not all the passengers go through the Customs when they arrive from abroad.

XII. Составьте диалоги, употребив следующие слова и выражения:

BUYING A TICKET

А В

one first to D. single or return

to change a through train

to arrive to be due...

What's the fare?...shillings
a dining-car

TALKING TO A PORTER

А В

Porter Yes, sir.

see to my luggage to travel

to Glasgo luggage

to travel first class which class?

two suit-cases to leave

platform to hurry

XIII. Закончите следующие ситуации:

1. The train arrived in London at 8 p.m. When I got off the train I saw that no one had come to meet me. So I...

2. Yesterday we came to the station to see off our friend. When we came up to this carriage the attendant asked my friend to show him his ticket. But my friend found that he had no ticket. I said...

3. Last Sunday my friend and I decided to go to the country. He said that at 9 o'clock he would be waiting for me at the railway station. But at 8 o'clock in the morning when I was about to leave the house the telephone rang and...

4. My friend was coming back to Moscow from Sochi. At one of the stations he got off the train to send a cable to his wife. When he came out he saw that his train had already left...

XIV. Перескажите следующие тексты:

SEEING A FRIEND OFF

Three men were sitting at a bar near a railway-station. They had asked the I railway porter to tell them when the train was due. Some time later the porter I came to say that the train was coming in. "Oh," said the men, "we have time for I just one more drink." They took another drink and hurried out, but their train had I already left.

They went back to the bar. An hour later the second train arrived, and the same thing happened. They missed the train again. Two hours later the porter came and told them that the last train was due in five minutes. Again the men waited for a few minutes to have one more drink and when they came out the train had already started. Two of the men caught the train. But the third man missed the train and walked back to the bar.

"By the way," the barman asked him, when he came in, "what town are your friends going to?"

"I don't know, where they are going to," the man answered. "They just came down to the station to see me off."

a bar бар; to have a drink выпить; the same thing то же самое;

to happen случаться; again опять, снова; to start отправляться;

a barman бармен

TOO MUCH FOR THEM

Some young men were travelling in a smoking compartment of a railway carriage. Just as the train was about to start the door suddenly opened, and an old woman came into their compartment. The young men wanted to have the compartment for themselves and they said: "This is a smoking carriage." But the woman did not listen to them. She came into their compartment and sat down. They decided to smoke as much as they could and hoped that she would have to leave the carriage soon. There was a lot of smoke in the compartment and the young men began to feel bad.

In a quarter of an hour to their great surprise the woman took out a pipe and began smoking too.

The young men had to change their compartment very soon.

to start отправляться; for themselves для себя; a pipe трубка

XV. Выполните следующие задания:

1. Meet Mr. Morrison at the airport. Tell him you have booked a room for him at the Metropol Hotel.

2. Ask Mr. Camp what goods he is interested in and what terms of shipment suit his company.

3. Tell Mr. Readly what goods you can offer them and let him know your price and the terms of delivery.

4. Tell Mr. Nelson that as you are going to place a big order with them you ask them to reduce their prices. Say they are higher than the world prices.

5. Tell Mr. Todd you have improved your models lately and you are going to sell them at a higher price. Ask if the firm can take part deliveries.

XVI. Сделайте сообщения на следующие темы:

1.Travelling by railway. 2. At the booking-office. 3. At the railway-station.