1. UNIT 2
Destinations

2. Contents Listening Visiting Moscow, SB – pg. 20
Present Simple vs. Present Continuous
Contents

3. Listening – Visiting Moscow
Climate: July & August – the warmest months, long summer days and it can rain aquite a lot, frozen – from the end of November till April
Getting around – bus, metro (150 stations), suburban train, transfer, taxi, trams, trollybuses
Sightseeing – the Kremlin, Red Square, St. Basil’s Cathedral (Lenin’s tomb), Gorky park, river Moskva
Entertainment : the Moscow Film Festival, the Russian Winter Festival
Food and drink: Niam Niam-sweet and savoury pies;
Kroshka Kartoshka-jacket potatoes with fillings; Russkie Bliny-Russian pankcakes
Listening – Visiting Moscow

4. Listening – Vocabulary, pg. 20
fairground - a piece of land where fairs are held/sajam
gig – 1. a light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse 2. a light, fast, narrow boat adapted for rowing or sailing /dvokolice, veslački čamac, svirke
troyka - a Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast/troika
suburban train- of or characteristic of a suburb/prigradski
pier - a structure leading out from the shore into a body of water/pristanište
jacket potatoes - a baked potato served with the skin on/neoljušten krompir
Listening – Vocabulary, pg. 20

5. Russian Blinie

6. Troyka

7. Visiting Moscow - pg. 20, ex. 16 Moscow has five airports
to book a transfer
the Kremlin, Red Square, St. Basil’s Cathedral (Lenin’s tomb), Gorky park, river Moskva
It stretches almost three km along the river Moscow
a fairground, an ornamental garden, boat excursions from the pier
It takes places in autumn
Visiting Moscow - pg. 20, ex. 16

8. pg 20, ex 15 - Vocabulary Climate: humid, chilly, warm, frozen
Transport: tram, coach, underground, cab
Entertainment: night club, show, concert hall, fairground
pg 20, ex 15 - Vocabulary

9. Climate: cold, cool, warm, hot; mild, moderate, temperate, severe; wet, damp, humid, dry, arid;
a cold climate; a relatively mild climate; a dry climate; a warm climate; a hot climate;
a continental climate; a maritime climate; cold climates; hot climates; a wide variety of climates;
e.g. The climate of Siberia is continental, with cold winters and warm summers. The climate of this region is cold and wet.
e.g. Ireland has a cool maritime climate. Yalta has a warm subtropical climate. I would like to live in a warm climate.
e.g. France has three types of climate. Agriculture in mountainous regions is restricted by climate and relief.
Climate

10. Transport traveling by ... rail bus / coach air sea
station train catch / get on get off platform passenger train journey depart / leave arrive engine engine driver corridor / aisle
bus terminal bus catch / get on / board get off departure gate coach / bus journey depart / leave arrive driver's seat bus driver aisle
airport aircraft get on / board get off / disembark departure gate passenger jet / airplane flight take off land cockpit pilot aisle
port ship embark disembark quay / dock liner voyage sail dock bridge captain gangway
Transport

12. Presenting a Tourist Destination
KEY INFORMATION
Climate
Food and drink
Getting Around
Sightseeing
Entertainment
Presenting a Tourist Destination

13. rainfall - 1. a shower or fall of rain, 2
rainfall a shower or fall of rain, 2. the quantity of water, expressed in inches in a specified area and time interval/pljusak, padavine
takeaway - prepared food that is intended to be eaten elsewhere/jela za poneti
Presentations pg. 21 SB

14. THE LANGUAGE OF PRESENTATIONS
Giving recommendations
Introducing your talk
Where does that lead us?
Let's consider this in more detail...
Good evening, everyone! Thank you for inviting me to speak on ...
What does this mean for...?
Translated into real terms...
The subject/topic of my talk is ...
Why is this important?
I'm going to talk about ...
The significance of this is...
My topic today is…
My talk is concerned with ...
Giving examples
A good example of this is...
The main part of the talk
As an illustration,...
Let us begin with ...
To give you an example,...
However.
To illustrate this point...
As far as (the accommodation) is concerned.
Summing up/ conclusion
Moving on to .
So, in conclusion, you can see that.
My third point deals with .
Saying thank you and ending your talk
And last but not least ... I would like to start by .
Thank you all for listening so attentively.
I hope I have been able to tell you a little about .
I shall begin by .
Then I will speak about.
Before I sit down I would first like to thank ... for ...
Thirdly I will talk about ...
And lastly.
Does anyone have any questions?

15. You have recently returned from a familiarization trip t o a holiday resort and now have to report back on your visit. Decide which resort you went to and which tour operator paid for your holiday. Prepare a presentation. Talk about the resort itself and also about those facilities offered by the tour operator. Include the following:
TRANSPORT TO AND FROM THE RESORT
THE CLIMATE
THE ACCOMMODATION
THE LOCAL ATTRACTIONS
THE FOOD
TRANSPORT IN THE RESORT
THE PRICE AND VALUE FOR MONEY
THE KEY SELLING POINTS HW

16. Presentation-Tourist Destination
Think of the strengths and weaknesses of your own country as a tourist destination!
Presentation-Tourist Destination

17. Life size - being of the same size as an original / opp. gigantic
Plain – simple, evident, clear/ opp. ornate
Old fashioned – of a kind that is no longer in style / opp. state of the art
Comfortable - providing physical comfort / opp. unpleasant
Recorded -put on tape or film so that it can be heard or viewed again later / opp. live
Weird – odd, unusual / opp. normal
Wide – broad / opp. restricted, narrow
WB, pg. 10, ex 2 - Vacabulary

21. WB, pg. 11, ex 3
Practice

22. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION