Unit 2 The world is a book and those who travel read only a page

Unit 2

The world is a book and those who do not travel

read only a page.

I. Warm up

Audio script

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II. Listening For Content

1. Listening to a conversation

Audio script

Philip: Hi, Lorraine! Did you have a good holiday? Lorraine: Hi, Philip! All right, thank you. We went to Spain.

Philip: Oh? What was it like? Lorraine: We enjoyed ourselves very much. The

weather was fine and we just lay on the beach all day. I felt really marvellous being thoroughly lazy for a change.

Philip: Well, you're certainly looking brown. We toured around Italy. We saw a lot

of interesting places. We ate spaghetti in Rome, drank coffee in Venice, and took a lot of pictures.

Lorraine:

Sounds terrific! What was the weather like there?

Philip: The sun was shining every day, but not as hot as in Spain, I suppose.

Fascinating country! I'd never realized how beautiful it was.

Lorraine:

Yes, I've always wanted to go there. What about you, John? Where did

you go?

John: Oh, I stayed at home and mowed the lawn. Philip: That doesn't sound like much of a holiday.

John: Well, with two small children, it's a bit of a problem to get away. Hotels are

impossible and even camping's difficult, so we decided to stay at home and just go out for day trips.

Lorraine: That sounds sensible.

John: It's surprising how little one knows of one's own country. Do you know I'd

never been to the Tower of London before?

Philip: Are you serious?

2. Listening to a passage Audio script

Tourism

Tourism is really a big business these days. It's amazing. It involves hotels, transportation, shops, and thousands of people. The tour companies keep telling us what a good thing it is... about how much we can learn about people and customs, but sometimes I wonder if this is really true.

A couple that I know went abroad last summer. They travelled with a tour group. It's interesting to compare their experiences with some of the experiences of other people in the same tour group. My friends, fortunately, had some...some acquaintances, or friends, actually, along the route of their tour. In some of the cities they were going, they knew of the...they knew some local people and they could eat some of the local food and maybe see some of the local sights.

Other members of the tour group, however, never got out of the group at all. They... they never went out and did a thing on their own. Of course the tour company leaves it pretty much up to the people to do whatever they want.

I understand why people wouldn't go out on their own because of the language