Where can visitors buy gifts and books about Stonehenge and have a bite?

What is the most remarkable feature about Stonehenge?

Can people see ceremonial and domestic structures of Stonehenge easily?

a) You are held back by a discreet rope of considerable distance from the mighty structures.

b) This had actually affected a considerable improvement.

c) Circular henge monuments are accessible by road or public footpaths.

a) This is merely the most important prehistoric monument in Europe and one of the dozen most visited tourist attractions in England.

b) It is incredible how these mighty stones were transported hundreds of kilometers by sheer manpower.

c) Stonehenge’s orientation on the rising and setting sun was a part of a huge astronomic calendar.

a) Complete your journey by visiting our smart gift exhibition where your can find a complete range of gifts and books about Stonehenge and the legends that surround it.

b) They’re built a new gift shop and a coffee bar here since early seventies where books and souvenirs or a cup of coffee in a Styrofoam cup can be bought.

c) The Stonehenge kitchen is open all year round and serves delicious hot and cold light refreshments.

Ex. 26. Analyze the changes in styles and how the information in two texts, is organized.

1) What makes the text sound personal. Underline the structures.

2) Give the right order of importance in making the style:

1. Grammar: Present Simple – Present Perfect / Present Simple – Past Simple; Passive/Active.

2. Word choice: verbs, nouns, adjectives.

3. Types of adjectives: factual, opinion-making.

4. Substitution of subject: they, this.

5. Sentence structure: short / long sentences.

6. Inversion: change in word order.

7. Phrasal verbs.

8. Idiomatic expressions.

3) Illustrate your choice with the examples from the texts.

Ex. 27. Read the texts about Cardiff.

Pay attention to the changes in style and the information structure. Analyze them.

A) Cardiff is the capital and the largest city of Wales, and also the country’s main economic industrial and cultural center. It is situated on the south coast of Wales, and three rivers the Tall, the Ely and Rhymney flow through it into the Bristol Channel. A large area of parkland lies near the center of Cardiff, and many of the city’s major commercial buildings are includes the Law Courts, the National Museum of Males and the University College. Nearly there are many fashionable shops and modern hotels, and Cardiff Castle, which was built in 1090. Factories in Cardiff produce parts for cars, chemicals, electronic equipment, engineering products, processed food and tobacco. Modern rail and road communications link Cardiff with the rest of Great Britain, and an airport lies outside the edge of the city.

In about AD 75, Roman solders built a fort on the site of what is now Cardiff – the name itself means “fort on the Tall”. Normans settled the area around 1050, building the Castle and a walled town grew up around the Castle. By the early 1800's it was still a small town. Then, when Wales become a major center of coal mining, iron and steel production, Cardiff served as a shipping center for these products and grew rapidly. By 1890 it had become known as the Coal Metropolis of the World, but the industry declined after the First World War. Since the mid-1940‘s Cardiff has grown steady by as the administrative and commercial centre of Wales. Its current population is approximately 300000.

B) Wales has a reputation for giving its guests a warm welcome, and nowhere is more true than in Cardiff, which has all the advantages of a capital city together with friendly atmosphere that is rarely found elsewhere.

Cardiff is a city of contrasts. The castle, with 1900 years of history, stands alongside a modern shopping center and one of the world’s greatest civic centres. Hundreds of acres of beautiful parkland reach into very heart of the city. Castles around Cardiff reminds that for centuries this was a turbulent frontier land.

Mountains and beaches are only a short drive from this community with all the facilities you could want – good shopping, excellent restaurants, live theatre, art galleries, night clubs, great sporting occasions. It combines the bright lights of the big city with the warmth and personality of a small town, making it an ideal place to live and work in, you’ll find it an exciting place to visit and a most enjoyable and rewarding place to move to.

Ex. 28. Answer the questions.

1. What is the purpose of each text? 2. Where are they taken from? a) an encyclopedia b) a tourism guide c) a history book d) publicity from the Welsh Development

3. With description is more factual? 4. How would you describe the style of both texts?     Agency

Ex. 29. Read some texts about British cities. Mind the features characteristic for tourist guides:

a) popular active words b) forms

c) grammar (verb tenses) and structure (sentences) d) structure of the texts

Sidmouth, recently Floral Town of Europe, is well known seaside resort with Royal connection.

Situated in the beautiful and tranquil valley of the river, this attractive holyday town has become popular with English people as a tourist resort particularly in the spring and autumn when the countryside is at its best. The town center whilst keeping pace with today’s needs is designated Conservation Area and its narrow streets boast of Devon cream teas.

For those who want to enjoy arts, there is a theatre and a cinema, with world famous International Folk Festival taking place in the first week of August when town plays host to dance groups and musicians from all over the world. It is only 30 minutes from the Cathedral and University of Exeter, with excellent shopping center and leisure facilities and within an easy reach of Torque’s famous marina and wild moorland of Darmoor where you can enjoy pony-trekking.

Paigton is an international resort with a bustling harbour and five beaches, right in the heart of English Riviera, in the West of England only 350 km from London. The coast is washed by the Gulf Stream bringing mild and sunny climate where palms trees and exotic plants flourish. A favorite resort of Queen Victoria, Disraeli and Oscar Wilde. Watersports are very popular. You can try windsurfing, water skiing or parascending. The mysterious landscape of the nearby National Park is superb countryside for horse-riding and walking. Golf, tennis squash, even dry-skiing – almost any activity or sport can be arranged. The English Riviera is one of Britain’s popular holiday areas.

Blackpool – and don’t care how many times you hear this, it never stops being amazing – attracts more visitors every year than Greece and has more holiday beds than the whole of Portugal. It consumes more chips per capita than anywhere else on the planet. (It gets through 40 acres of potatoes a day).

It has the largest in the continents second most popular tourist attraction, visitors are exceeded in number only by those nations. And on Friday and Saturday nights it has more public toilets than anywhere else in Britain elsewhere they call them doorways.

In the past twenty years, during a period in which the number of Britons taking traditional seaside holidays has declined by a fifth, Blackpool has increased its visitor numbers by

7 per cent and built tourism into a £ 280 million-a-year industry – no small achievement when you consider the British climate, the fact that Blackpool is ugly and a long way from anywhere, that its sea is an open toilet, and its attractions nearly all cheap, provincial and dire.

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