[00:00.00] Unit 7 Tourlst Information
[00:31.29]Integrated Skills Development
[00:35.97]Dialogues
[00:39.52]A. At a Travel Agent's
[00:45.17]Mike Hunter is young doctor from Canada.
[00:51.54]He has been at an international medical conference in Beijing
[00:57.99]and tomorrow he will fly to London.
[01:02.98]At the moment he's at a travel agent's.
[01:08.73]Mike Hunter: I want to fly to London tomorrow.
[01:14.29]Can you confirm my ticket,please?
[01:18.76]Assistant: Yes,sir. There is a flight tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock.
[01:25.71]Please check in not later than one o'clock.
[01:31.27]Mike Hunter: What's the flight number?
[01:35.03]Assistant: It's CA 937.
[01:40.99]Mike hunter: When will I arrive in London?
[01:45.14]Assistant: You'll be there at five o'clock in the afternoon.
[01:49.90]Mike Hunter: How can I get to the airport?
[01:53.97]Assistant: You can take a bus from the bus station.
[01:58.33]That's just opposite here.
[02:02.59]Buses go to the airport every ten minutes.
[02:07.74]Here's your ticket,sir. It's all in order.
[02:12.91]Mike Hunter: Thank you very much for your help.
[02:16.86]Assistant: You are welcome.
[02:20.41]B.Tourist Information
[02:27.07]Rod Bensons is an American. He is staying at a hotel in Beijing.
[02:36.03]He is asking about tours in the capital city.
[02:41.67]Rod: Can you give me any information about tours?
[02:47.84]Attendant: Yes,sir. I can even arrange a tour for you if you want me to.
[02:54.60]What would you like to see?
[02:58.55]Rod: I'd like to see the Great Wall.
[03:03.22]Attendant: Would you like to go by coach or by train?
[03:08.68]Rod: What do you recommend?
[03:12.13]Attendant: My advice is to go by coach.
[03:16.81]Rod: I'll do that then.
[03:20.28]By the way,all my money is in travelers' cheques,I'm afraid.
[03:26.24]Attendant: I can change those for you,sir.
[03:31.28]Rod: Thanks a lot.
[03:34.15]Attendant: It is my pleasure.
[03:37.50]Passage Holidays
[03:44.65]"Package Holidays" are becoming more and more popular.
[03:52.41]That is the sort of holiday many people are going on.
[03:58.16]A travel agency has chartered the plane they are going to travel in,
[04:04.82]reserved the hotel rooms they will stay in and even ordered the food they will eat.
[04:12.08]That is why it is called a package holiday.
[04:17.75]Such holidays are usually rather cheap.
[04:23.08]That is probably why they are so popular. But not every-body likes them.
[04:30.84]Some people say you do not see very much of the country you go to.
[04:37.60]Some young people are going abroad,too.
[04:42.88]But they are not going on a pack-age holiday.
[04:47.84]And their holiday will not be very expensive,either.
[04:53.62]They will prob-ably walk most of the way.
[04:58.37]Sometimes they will get"lifts" in trucks of cars.
[05:04.82]They will stay in youth hostels.
[05:09.39]Sometimes they will even sleep in parks or fields.
[05:15.45]That is how a lot of young people see the world these days.