Choose the correct word. A holiday where you go to see animals in their animal habitats.
ПОЛУЧИТЬ ОТВЕТ Choose the correct word. A holiday arranged at a fixed price that includes your flight to a place, a car to drive while you are there, and a place to stay.
Choose the correct word. Complete the collocation: ______ a reservation.
Choose the correct word. Complete the collocation: ________ the tourist sights.
Choose the correct option. The guide spoke ______ quickly that we couldn’t understand her.
Choose the correct option. It was _______ cold weather that we couldn’t go to the beach.
Choose the correct option. Lisa always unpacks her suitcase as soon as she ________ at the hotel.
Choose the correct option. Take an umbrella in case it ______ .
Match the headings and the texts: 1. Bright and safe 2. The bus you don’t need to drive 3. The story of the name 4. Special traffic rules for the bus 5. The symbol of the capital 6. Watching and learning 7. They have to be skilled and attentive 8. A perfect way to see the capital A. A walking school bus is a group of children walking to school with one or more adults. It can be informal — when two families take turns in getting their children to school. It also can be a structured and planned route with meeting points, a timetable and specially trained volunteers. It’s certainly safer for kids who would otherwise walk alone to school. A walking school bus provides exercise and security. B. Every day thousands of Londoners use big red buses to move around town. These buses were designed especially for London, by people who knew what London needed, and they have served their purpose well! There are hundreds of bus routes all over London. The double-decker bus has become an emblem of London, just as recognizable as Big Ben or Tower Bridge. C. Have you ever wondered why school buses are either yellow or orange? Yellow is an attention-grabbing colour. Scientists have discovered yellow is 1.24 times better for catching our eye than red. People can detect yellow even from the corner of their eye. Yellow is easier to notice in dim light or bad weather. For these reasons, school buses in many countries are yellow. D. Few people know that the word "bus" is a short form of the Latin word "omnibus". A businessman named Stanislas Baudry started the first horse-drawn omnibus service in the French city of Nantes in 1823. The first vehicles stopped in front of the hatter’s shop which had a large sign Omnes Omnibus. Soon Nantes citizens gave the nickname "omnibus" to the vehicle. The word "omnibus" means for all in Latin. In 1828, Baudry launched the omnibus service in Paris too. E. Moscow, like other touristic cities, has double-decker buses — so called hop-on — hop-off buses. A ticket for this bus is valid for one or two days. You can get on and off the bus as many times as you like. The second deck has two parts: an open part, and a closed one. You can enjoy the open part in the warm weather and the closed part when the weather is not very good. Every passenger is supplied with a free city map and a free headphone set to listen to the audio guide. F. The job of a bus driver goes beyond just driving the vehicle! Bus drivers are responsible for the safety of their passengers, which can sometimes be as many as 100 people! They are responsible for driving their assigned route and sometimes they have to take fares and answer passengers’ questions. Bus drivers also check the safety of their vehicle and make sure it has working safety equipment like first aid kits and fire extinguishers. G. The Magic School Bus is a Saturday morning animated children’s television series. It is based on the series of books of the same name by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. In each story, elementary school teacher, Ms Frizzle, and her class of eight pupils board a magic school bus, which takes them on field trips to impossible locations, such as the solar system, clouds, the past, and inside the human body. The class pet, Liz, a lizard, accompanies the class on their field trips.
Read and mark the statements True or False.
