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Name: Trần Thị Minh Thư Class: AVK45A Student Id: 2112140

Course: English for Tourism 3

UNIT 1: SEEING THE SIGHTS

COUSE BOOK EXERCISE PAGE 3-4


Reading: Dublin: Read an extract from a tour guide to Dublin and match the sentences with the
attractions. Which attractions
1. Is particularly suitable for children: DUBLINIA
2. Sells arts and craft: POWERSCOURT TOWNHOUSE
3. Is associated with Irish politics: DUBLIN CASTLE
4. Particularly caters for educational visit: DUBLINIA
5. Combines sound and images in its display: DUBLINIA
6. Contains an unusual object: CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL
7. Enables you to eat there: TEMPLE BAR, THE LONG HALL, POWERSCOURT
TOWNHOUSE
8. Is built on an earlier site: CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL

WORKBOOK EXERCISE: PAGE 100-104


EXERCISE 1: VOCABULARY: PLACES TO SEE
Across
3. Building for Islamic worship: MOSQUE
6. Mountain that can erupt: VOLCANO
9. Very tall building: TOWER
10. Where kings and queens live: PALACE
11. Room under a church where people are buried: CRYPT
12. Deep, narrow valley with steep sides: GORGE
Down
1. Rounded roof of a building: DOME
2. Building used for worship in Asia: TEMPLE
4. Large mass of ice that moves slowly down a mountain: GLACIER
5. Place where monks live: MONASTERY
7. Very old and fortified building: CASTLE
8. There is a Grand one in northern Arizona: CANYON

EXERCISE 2: VOCABULARY: Complete each guided tour extract with words from the box
Pottery watercolor helmet arrows portrait
landscape shield sketch sword

1. “And in this display cabinet we have some fragment of POTTERY dating from the 12 century,
together with a crossbow and ARROWS
2. “this is Richard II, the boy king and the earlier known …PORTRAIT…of an English King
3. Here you can compare the preliminary ….SKETCH...with the final product, a …LANDSCAPE
……….done with the… …WATERCOLOR.., which the artist preferred Instead of oil paint
4. Medieval armor was very heavy and consisted of a steel…HELMET…with a visor to protect
the head and a …SHIELD….which soldiers used to prevent them being injured by
opponent’s…SWORD……..

EXERCISE 3: PRONUNCIATION
/æ/ /ə/ /eɪ/
Arrow Canvas Armor, Safari, Popular Volcano, Portrait
Barrel Banquet Landscape

EXERCISE 4: READING: DUBLIN’S PUB: Which of the pubs


A: THE STAG’S HEAD D: OLIVER ST JOHN GOGARTY G: O’DONOGHUE’S
B: HOGAN’S E: O’NEILL’S C: THE BRAZEN HEAD
F: MCDAID’S
1. Is the most difficult to find: A
2. Is situated close to the university: E
3. Is the oldest: C
4. Serves non-alcoholic drinks: B
5. Has not changed its furnishing: A
6. Is frequented mainly by young people: B,E
7. Serves good food: E,D
8. Is a place tourist like to go: D, G, F
9. Has literary associations: D, F
10. Is associated with music: D, G

EXERCISE 5: which word in the text could be replaced by the word below?
1. Try out: sample
2. Enormous: vast
3. Narrow street; alley
4. Drink (n): beverage
5. Luxurious: opulent
6. Kept: retained
7. Food: fare
8. Trying to find: seeking out
9. Famous: renowned

EXERCISE 6: LANGUAGE FOCUS: PASSIVE: Complete the text with the correct active or
passive form of the verbs in brackets.
NEWGRANGE
The origins of Newgrange (hide)....are hidden.......... in mystery. According to Celtic legend, the kings
of Tara (bury)…were buried….? Here until the eleventh century, but Newgrange (predate)...
predated........them by over 3,000 years.
The burial chamber (build)…was built…sometime around 3200 BC but the grave (leave)….was
left....untouched by invaders down the centuries (though not by tomb robbers). The site (rediscover)…
was rediscovered....during the seventeenth century but it wasn't until the 1960s that the area
(excavate)....was excavated..
Archaeologists then (discover) …discovered… that on the winter solstice rays of the sun (enter)
….enter…the tomb and light up the burial chamber, making it the oldest solar observatory in the
world. What is remarkable is that Newgrange (design)...was designed….by people who (have)…
had…. exceptional engineering skills but neither the wheel nor metal. About 200,000 tons of stones
(transport)….were transported…12 to build the mound, or caim, which (protects)….protects...passage
grave. Larger block of stone (use) … were used …to make the circle around the cairn.
Many of the stones along the passage, the chamber and its recesses (decorate)…were decorated…..with
zigzags, spirals and other geometric patterns.

EXERCISE 7: READING: WORKING AS A GUIDE: Read the interview with Walter Alvin and
answer the questions

1 Why did he decide to become a guide?


a) He had worked as a ski instructor.
b) He didn't enjoy what he was doing before.
c) He liked working with people.
d) He was interested in working outdoors.

2 Why did he choose to work in Abisko?


a) It was part of his training course.
b) There were excellent career opportunities.
c) He had enjoyed his previous visits.
d) Because Abisko is in the north.

3 What does his job not involve?


a) Marketing the tourist station
b) Informing visitors about local traditions
c) Taking people onto the ski slopes
d) Taking people up the mountain

4 What part of his job does he enjoy most?


a) Skiing on the pistes
b) Watching the midnight sun
c) The positive reactions of the visitors
d) Taking visitors to the Sami settlement

5 What is the biggest problem?


a) The number of visitors who come to the area
b) the lack of visitors at certain times of the year
c) The problem in obtaining supplies
d) the quantity of work he has to do

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