Санкт-Петербургский колледж управления и экономики «Александровский лицей» Курбангалеева Т. Н. Практика устной речи

1.6. Potential Travel Problems and Solutions

How to Prepare for Potential Travel Problems

General Discussion on Unit 1 “Travelling"

1. 
   What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘travel’?
   
2. 
   What is travel for you?
   
3. 
   Do you like travelling? Why?
   
4. 
   Are you a traveller?
   
5. 
   Do you typically plan your trip or think where to go just before the holiday?
   
6. 
   When you choose where to go, how do you typically define a place for vacation? (By travel company, by Internet, on advice of your friends/colleagues/relatives, smth. else)
   
7. 
   Do you typically buy package tour or you prefer to organize your trip by your own?
   
8. 
   Do you prefer cultural tourism (sightseeing), sport tourism (bicycle riding, mountain climbing) or leisure tourism (lying on the beach, visiting spa-centers, etc)? Why?
   
9. 
   Do you prefer to travel across our country or abroad? Why?
   
10. 
    What’s the best place you’ve ever been to?
    
11. 
    Which place did you visit last? Why did you choose to visit this particular place?
    
12. 
    Which place did you like most? Why?
    
13. 
    What place you would like to visit most of all? Why?
    
14. 
    Why do people travel?
    
15. 
    What kind of travelling do you prefer: planned in advance or spontaneous?
    
16. 
    Travelling abroad or exploring your country – what is the most attractive one for you?
    
17. 
    What places would you call the most beautiful and worth-seeing?
    
18. 
    What kind of trip you would call “an ideal journey”? Under what circumstances?
    
19. 
    Have you ever planned your trip personally? Did you succeed in planning your trip?
    
20. 
    Can you remember the trip you are proud of?
    
21. 
    What different kinds of travelling are there?
    
22. 
    What is your favourite means of transport and why?
    
23. 
    What are the advantages of travelling by car?
    
24. 
    Which parts of your country would you recommend a tourist to visit and why?
    
25. 
    Do you prefer a holiday with your family or with your friends? Why?
    
26. 
    What sort of activities do you like doing on holiday?
    
27. 
    What sort of accommodation do you like when you are on holiday?
    
28. 
    What do you like doing if your holiday is not near the sea?
    
29. 
    Would you like to go travelling for a few years non-stop?
    
30. 
    What are the good and bad things about travelling?
    
31. 
    Is it better to travel or to arrive?
    
32. 
    What would make you wiser – travelling around the world for ten years or reading 10,000 books?
    
33. 
    Is travel an education?
    
34. 
    Would you like to work in the travel industry?
    
35. 
    What are the pros and cons of traveling first class and backpacking?
    

1. 
   No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. Lin Yutang
   
2. 
   Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. Elizabeth Drew
   
3. 
   Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. Mason Cooley
   
4. 
   The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. St. Augustine
   
5. 
   It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha
   
6. 
   I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Oscar Wilde
   
7. 
   Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
8. 
   We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anais Nin
   
9. 
   To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley
   
10. 
    All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. Samuel Johnson
    
11. 
    For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
    
12. 
    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
    
13. 
    There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. Charles Dudley Warner
    
14. 
    Long voyages, great lies. Italian proverb
    
15. 
    Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken." Frank Herbert