C) in at by on

Trip travel journey cruise tour voyage flight

B) Journeys

Cut-price tickets youth hostels

Package holiday travel agents resort peak

Off the beaten track hitch-hiking leisure off-peak

People have more money and more (a) ______ nowadays and even young people

can afford to go abroad. Many (b) ______ offer cheap (c) ______ for flights to all

parts of the world, so youngsters can avoid the crowded, well-known places and get to less famous areas which are (d) ______. Instead of using public transport and hotels, they can travel by (e) ______ and stay at (f) ______. But most people prefer some kind of (g) ______ at a popular holiday (h) ______, which means that

everything is arranged for you and the price you pay includes transport, food and

accommodation. Try to avoid taking your holiday during the busy (i) ______tourist

season. It's more crowded and expensive. If possible, go in the quieter (j) ______

period.

(a) For general advice about ______, go to a travel agent.

(b) One day I would like to do the ______ by train and ship across Russia to Japan.

(c) We’re going on a ______ of Europe, visiting 11 countries in five weeks.

(d) We went on a three-week ______ round the Mediterranean. The ship called at

Venice, Athens, Istanbul and Alexandria.

(e) He once went by ship to Australia. The ______ took 3 ¹/₂ weeks.

(f) I’m going on a business ______ to Paris next weekend.

(g) Air France ______ 507 from Paris to New York will be taking off in ten minutes.

(h) The ______ from Heathrow Airport to the centre of London takes about 45 minutes by underground.

(i) On our first day in New York we went on a three-hour ______ of the city by bus, which showed us the main sights.

(j) During our stay in Paris we went on a day ______ to Disneyland.

(a) We went ______ car. (d) She arrived ___ Rome ___ midnight.

(b) We went ______ John's car. (e) She arrived ______ the hotel.

(c) We went ______ a journey.

3.9. a) Match the expressions in bold to the definitions after the text. b) Use the expressions from the text in your sentences.

If a tourist’s yarning to (1) escape the crowd, (2) render off the beaten track and (3) get back to nature, Suriname increasingly looks a (4) promising choice. Nobody in Suriname claims that the country (5) boasts the best sand, sea and sun in the Caribbean. But that, in a way, isprecisely the point: there aren’t (6) hordes of people either.

As Henk Essed, director of the Suriname Tourism Foundation, observes: “We don’t really need masses of tourists like we have in the rest of the Caribbean. Instead, Suriname’s modest (7) tourism sector focuses on what makes the country different. The biggest attraction for visitors (8) seeking something out of the ordinary is the (9) wealth of wildlife. Large (10) tracts of the country are still covered by (11) virgin rainforest, home to a huge range of (12) flora and fauna.”

“There is great potential to develop (13) eco-tourism as one of the major sources of income in the near future”, says Harold Sijlbing, managing director of Stinasu, an organisation which promotes conservation of wildlife and ecological awareness.

(a) ___ looking for something different/unusual

(b) ___ original and natural

(c) ___ live a natural, rural style of life

(d) ___ go where there are not many people

(e) ___ crowds, in a negative sense

(f) ___ go to places tourists don’t normally go

(g) ___ tourist industry (formal)

(h) ___ achoice which could be a very good one

(i) ___ plants and animals (Latin, a fixed phrase)

(j) ___ large amount of (formal)

(k) ___ areas of land, collocates with large, vast, huge

(l) ___ have something that is impressive and that you can be proud of

(m) __ holidays that respect the environment

3.10. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passages below.

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