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Unit V business trip Part I. Travelling.

Task I. Read and translate the text:

Business Travelling

Business trips are just part of doing business. Trips can happen in or out of the country. And there are as many reasons to go on a business as there are places to go: to sign contracts, to discuss terms of delivery, payment or shipment, to have tests, to consult, to improve one’s professional skills, to provide support. Representatives of the companies involved usually make preliminary arrangements in order to meet. Whether a long-term or short-term trip, the itinerary must be carefully planned by the head of a department or another executive. After the trip, an employee is ordinarily expected to give a full financial accounting of the trip to his boss. These trips are important because they contribute to the expansion of a company’s business relationships and help that company succeed in the competitive world market.

Business today is international in character, and business people often have to travel. On a business trip people might meet colleagues and business partners for the first time. Often, colleagues from different countries experience cultural difficulties. Different cultures do things differently! It’s often useful when doing business in a foreign land, to get some advice from a special agency which consults on questions of international business. These days business trips are very important because face to face meetings are more valuable to profitable business than any other type of strategy.

Business people very often go from place to place or to several places especially to distant places to sell or buy and take orders for their companies. Nowadays people who go on business mostly travel by air, as it is the fastest means of travelling.

Travelling by train is slower than by plane, but it also has its advantages. You can see the country you are travelling through, and not only the clouds as when you are flying. Modern trains have very comfortable seats in all passenger carriages, and there are sleeping cars and dining-cars which make even the longest journey enjoyable.

Some people prefer to travel by ship when possible. There are large liners, holiday ships and river boats on board which you can visit different countries or parts of your own country. Ships are not so fast as train or planes, but a sea voyage or a river trip is a very pleasant way of spending a holiday.

Mane people like to travel by car. The advantages of this way of spending a holiday are that you can make your own time-table, you don’t have to buy a ticket, and you are not afraid you will miss your train. Besides, you can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like. And then you can stop wherever you wish, where there is something interesting to see, at a good restaurant where you can enjoy a good meal, or at a hotel to spend the night. That is why travelling by car is popular for pleasure trips, while people usually take a train or plane when they are travelling on business.

Task II. Complete the sentences 1-10 using the correct words from box:

Advantages, booking-office, look out, plane, railway station,

journey, to complete, business, car, sea voyage

  1. Hundreds of people want to catch a train, a ship or a plain at a _____, a port or an airport.

  2. _____ is the fastest way of traveling.

  3. When you ring up the air-line _____, they will send your ticket to your home.

  4. On board the plane you can sit and read, _____ of the window until you arrive at your destination.

  5. There are some _____ traveling by train.

  6. The sleeping cars make even the longest _____ enjoyable.

  7. A _____ is a very pleasant way of spending a holiday.

  8. Travelling by _____ you needn’t worry about time-table and you don’t have to buy a ticket.

  9. People who go on _____ mostly travel by air, as it is fastest means of traveling.

  10. Before the flights traveling must have enough time _____ the necessary airport formalities.

Task . Read the text. Tell whether each statement below is true (T) or false (F) according to what you have read in the text.