B) Read your account to your comrades in class. Arrange a competition for the best version.

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23. Compose a second part of the story "Anthony in Blue Alsatia" with the view of showing how the newspaper article influenced Anthony's further life, behaviour or psychology.

Make a round-table discussion of the story in which one part of the partic ipants will criticize the story pointing out its weak points, and the other will de fend it enlarging on its merits.

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PROFESSION-ORIENTED QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

I. Listen to your fellow-students' reading of Ex. 2, detect their mistakes and cor rect them.

II. Analyse your fellow-students' reading of Ex. 3 by demonstrating the correct way of pronouncing the word combinations.

III. Read out Ex. 4 to your fellow-student; ask him to analyse your mistakes and correct them.

IV. a) Adapt the text for the 10th form level, b) Make up 10 questions covering the adapted text. (Lay emphasis on the beautiful nature that fascinated Anthony.)

V. a) Make a list of possible talking points on the topic "Man and Nature" that would be of particular interest for teen-agers, b) Work out topical vocabulary lists on some of them.

VI. Conduct a part of the lesson. Test the members of the class on their home work (check on their spelling, vocabulary or the content of the text). Use the fol lowing for prevention and analysis of their mistakes:

1. Open your books at...; 2. Your wording is wrong. 3. You've mispronounced the word. 4. I've lost the gist because of the bad wording. 5. You don't keep up with class. 6. It's too fragmentary to be pieced together. 7. That was a glaring error! 8. We could gain little information from your answer. 9. This is a troublesome letter/ sound/word. 10. A bad/good choice of words! 11. You don't seem to have prepared anything.

VII. Take up problem-solving situations 16-20 (See the Appendix). Discuss them in class.

CONVERSATION AND DISCUSSION

TRAVELLING. HOLIDAY-MAKING. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Topical Vocabulary

air travel путешествие по воздуху

beauty spots живописные места

be swarming with tourists быть запруженным (забитым) туристами

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bird ' s - eye view вид с высоты птичьего полета

cable railways фуникулёр (канатная дорога)

camping equipment полевое снаряжение

camp site палаточный городок

chemical waste химические отходы (to treat обрабатывать chemical waste)

cut down forests сводить леса

discharge sewage into rivers сбрасывать сточные воды в реки (lakes, etc.)

do sightseeing осматривать достопримечательности

environment n (environmental a; - protection охрана окружающей среды)

get a tan загорать

Get back to nature

in the middle of nowhere неизвестно в каком месте; непонятно где

laze around бездельничать

litter сор, мусор n, сорить, мусорить v (to drop - мусорить)

off the beaten track в стороне от большой дороги; в малоизвестных, малоизученных областях

package tour турпутёвка, включающая проезд, проживание, питание, экскурсии

pitch/put up the tent разбить палатку

play it off the cuff действовать по обстановке

pollute загрязнять, пачкать v

pollution загрязнение n (discharge of – загрязнение сточными водами; - controls контроль за загрязнением окружающей среды)

sea travel проезд морским транспортом

see the sights осматривать достопримечательности

ski - lifts n подъёмник для лыжников

sleep rough спать на открытом воздухе

snorkel плавать под водой с маской и трубкой v (i.e. to go in входить в воду for underwater swimming)

soak up the sun принимать солнечные ванны

sunbathe v

take a chance with the weather понадеяться на хорошую погоду

throw-away products одноразовые изделия

tourism n;

tourist n

travel agency/bureau бюро путешествий

Travel for pleasure

wind-surf v

I. I am sure we'll all agree that travelling is one of the most fascinating pastimes. Seeing new places, probably new countries (and why not?!), meeting new people — what could be more interesting? Besides, travel immensely чрезвычайно enlarges one's scope кругозор and so forms an essential part of a person's education.

Yet, different people have different views as to the best ways of travelling. Let us see first what Richard Aldington, the prominent English twentieth-century writer, has to say on the point.

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A) Read the following:

He also discovered the real meaning of travel. It sounds absurd to speak of a fifteen-mile walk as "travel". But you may go thousands of miles by train and boat between one international hotel and another, and not have the sensation of travelling at all. Travel means the consciousness понимание of adventure and exploration исследования, the sense of covering the miles, the ability to seize охватить indefatigably неутомимо upon every new or familiar source of delight. Hence the отсюда horror of tourism , which is a conventionalizing придавая условный характер, a codification , of adventure and exploration — which is absurd . Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else — above all, a travel bureau — arrange устраивать everything beforehand заблаговременно? It isn't seeing new and beautiful things which matters имеют значение, it's seeing them for yourself. And if you want the sensation of covering the miles, go on foot. Three hundred miles on foot in three weeks give you infinitely more sense of travel, show you infinitely more surprising and beautiful experiences, than thirty thousand miles of mechanical transport .