_{Travel and adventure} (English Collocations in Use (Advanced),UNIT 26)

A An exciting trip

Read Catherine's account of her trip to South America.

I'd always had a thirst for adventure and often get itchy feet so I could hardly contain my excitement when I set off for South America for a year. After a 12-hour flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil, I had another long flight to Manaus in the Amazon. Then I went by bus to a smaller town. It was a very arduous' journey. I should have broken the journey² somewhere but I did it all in one go. Next time, I'll have a stopover¹ in Sao Paolo, have a bit of a rest and do the sights there before travelling on.

After two fantastic weeks in the Amazon I got a flight on a low-cost airline to Rio de Janeiro. I then tried to get a flight to Peru but they were all full, so they put me on standby⁴. Luckily I got a seat on the flight I wanted.

In Peru I went trekking in the Andes with a group. The guide took us off the beaten track and I felt like an intrepid⁵ explorer from another century in some unexplored wilderness. There was a real sense of adventure. One day we actually got hopelessly lost. It was getting dark and we were afraid they'd have to send out a search party to look for us. But then we met some locals who were very friendly and helped us get back on to our path. It was a great trip.

¹ difficult, tiring, needing a lot of effort ² stopped for a short time ³ have a brief (usually)

overnight stay in a place when on a long journey to somewhere else, usually by air

⁴ made me wait to see if a seat became available ⁵ brave, with no fear of dangerous situations

В Articles about travel adventures

Note the collocations in these brief magazine items about travel adventures.

Some longed-for sunny spells have boosted the spirits' of three British women hoping to set a polar trekking record. The women have faced severe weather conditions since setting off to walk to the North Pole 18 days ago. However, the team's base camp manager said she had spoken to them yesterday by satellite phone and they had been relieved to report the weather was sunny and their spirits were high².

London to Tangier by train: Whilst this journey may not compare in terms of sheer epic grandeur to some of the great American train journeys, it does have a special charm all of its own. It may not be cheap but if you keep your eyes peeled³, you can find some surprisingly good deals. If your budget doesn't quite stretch to⁴ a sleeping compartment, you can always just curl up in your seat for the night. Let the rhythmical motion and the dull rumbles of the train lull you to sleep. The first leg of the journey gives you very little indication of what lies ahead ...

¹ made feel more cheerful 2 they were in a positive mood 3 (informal) keep your eyes open

⁴you can't afford

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Exercises

26.1 Complete these descriptions of TV documentaries

arduous beaten intrepid sense sights

using a word from the box.

trekking unexplored

1) John Howes presents essential holiday tips for those heading off the track, while Anneke Zousa does the.............................of New York in record time.

2) In this fascinating film, Grieshaus gives us a picture of the largely..................wilderness of the Kara Kum Desert.

3) In 1957, Anna Trensholm went ............................ through the mountains of North-Eastern Turkey and filmed every step of her way.This unique footage reveals the harshness of her...................................... journey.

4) This film conveys a genuine........................ of adventure, as we travel with its makers through the dense jungles of Guyana.

5) Like a(n)..............................explorer of the nineteenth century, James Westly travelled with only two companions

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26.2 Choose the correct collocations.

I have always had itchy (1) hands/ feet/ fingers and last summer had the amazing opportunity to travel to the - for me at least - (2) unexplored/ unplanned/ unprepared'territory of the Gobi Desert. My budget wouldn't (3) spread/ stretch 1 affordto travelling on a normal flight but 1 couldn't find a (4) low-cost 1 low-key 1 low-cut airline to fly me there. In the end, 1 got a (5) stand-up 1 stand-off 1 standby ticket and it was not too expensive. Once there 1 joined a group and we made a journey on horseback into the desert. You wouldn't believe the sheer (6) very 1 mere 1 epic grandeur of the region. If you keep your eyes (7) peeled! scaled! washed you can see all sorts of amazing plants and creatures. We were lucky with the
weather. We were told that the previous group had had to (8) meet 1 face 1 address severe weather (9) circumstances / coincidences / conditions. Our main problem was that one day we got (10) hopelessly /fearlessly / carelessly lost and they had to send out a search (11) group / party / st to find us. We felt so stupid. Anyway, the Gobi Desert may not be everyone's choice of holiday destination but 1 can assure you that it (12) does/ gets/ has a very special charm of its own.

26.3 Rewrite each sentence using the word in brackets.

1. At the beginning the journey was straightforward, (leg)

2. I couldn't afford to travel first class, (stretch)

3. After we arrived at our base camp we felt more cheerful, (boostfd)

4. There will be periods of sunshine in most areas today, (spells)

5. We broke our journey to Australia in Singapore, (stopover)

6. Jack has always longed to have adventures, (thirst)

7. Grandmother is very cheerful today, (spirits)

8. The movement of the ship helped me to fall asleep, (lulled)

English Vocabulary in Use (Advanced)

_{Travel and accommodation}

A Booking travel and holidays

Here are some choices you may make when booking travel/holidays:

By air -

scheduled

flight

charter

flight

first, business or economy class route (e.g. via Amsterdam)

fare type (e.g. Apex, Budget)

inclusive/all-in package

flight only

extras (e.g. airport taxes/insurance)

A scheduled flight is a normal, regular flight; a charter flight is a special flight taking a group of people, usually to the same holiday destination. Apex fares normally have to be booked a fixed number of days in advance and they offer value for money. Budget fares are usually cheaper but may have restrictions (e.g. you can only travel on certain days) and are usually non-refundable [you can't get your money backl or if you cancel, you may have to pay a cancellation fee. Some tickets allow a stopover lyou may stay somewhere overnight before continuing to your destination]. All-in packages normally include accommodation and transfers [e.g. a bus or coach to and from your hotel].

Sea travel is normally on a ferry, and the journey is called a crossing, but you can have a holiday on the sea if you go on a cruise. For some people a luxury cruise is the holiday of a lifetime [one you will always remember].

You may decide to book a berth in a shared cabin [a bed in a cabin with other people], or to have a single or double cabin. For more money, you can often get a deluxe cabin, perhaps on the upper deck [the higher part of the ship, which is often bigger and more comfortable]. Cruises often go to exotic [unusual or exciting] islands where you can get away from it all [escape your daily life and routines]. Car hire is another way of getting around [informal: travelling to different places]. When you book it, you normally choose whether you want unlimited mileage [ maihd3 you can travel as many miles as you like for the same price). There may also be extras to pay such as accident insurance. If you hire a car it gives you the freedom to go as you please [go where you want when you want].

Accommodation

Some people prefer hotels. Others prefer self-catering [where you do your own cooking] accommodation, such as a holiday apartment or chalet [ Jilci small cottage or cabin specially built for holiday-makers). In Britain and Ireland, guest houses |private homes offering high standard accommodation] and inns |similar to pubs, but also offering accommodation; usually beautiful old buildings] offer good accommodation which is often cheaper than hotels, and there are many private homes offering bed-and-breakfast [often called B and B]. Some types of accommodation offer half board [usually breakfast and one other meal] or full board [all meals].

Exercises

31.1 Use vocabulary from a opposite to express these sentences more briefly, as in the example.

example It was a regular flight which the airline runs every day. It was a. scheduled -flight.

1. I hate those special flights where everyone is booked to the same holiday destination.

2. It was a ticket you had to book 30 days in advance to get the cheaper fare.

3. The ticket allowed us to spend up to three nights in Singapore on the journey from London to Sydney.

4. You can get a bed on the ferry in a little room with three other beds.

5. We hired a car, with as many miles as we wanted free.

6. When you get there, the bus or taxi to your hotel is included in the cost of the holiday.

7. It was a special cheap fare, but there were some things you were not allowed to do.

3 1.2 Match the words on the left with their collocations on the right.

1 bed	catering
2 full	for money
3 self-	mileage
4 unlimited	island
5 exotic	and breakfast
6 value	board

31. 3 Which expressions in the box do you associate with each of the holidays below? Use a dictionary if necessary. Each expression may go with more than one type of holiday.

to rough it an exhilarating experience to be out in the wilds

to lounge around to keep on the move to sleep under the stars

a real learning experience to be your own boss to just drift along

a cosy atmosphere to go as you please to spend a fortune on entrance fees

1. self-catering holiday 5 trekking holiday

2. camping trip 6 cruise

3. staying in an inn or a guest house 7 sightseeing holiday

4. skiing holiday 8 holiday with car hire

31.4 Use the correct expressions from 31.3 in these sentences.

1. It was a lovely cruise; we just all day.

2. I prefer self-catering because I like to

3. Camping is OK if you don't mind

4. Skiing is always such

5. Sightseeing's great but it's easy

6. The guided tour of the ancient ruins was

7. Inns and guest houses usually have quite

English Vocabulary in Use

TOURISM (p 82)

A General descriptions of tourist destinations

For tourists yearning to escape the crowd¹, wander off the beaten track ² and get back to nature³, Suriname increasingly looks a promising choice⁴. Nobody in Suriname claims that the country boasts⁵ the best sand, sea and sun in the Caribbean. But that, in a way, is precisely the point: there aren't hordes⁶ of people either.

As Henk Essed, director of the Suriname Tourism Foundation, observes: We don't really need masses of tourists like we have in the rest of the Caribbean. Instead, Suriname's modest tourism sector⁷ focuses on what

go where there are not many people go to places tourists don't normally go live a natural, rural style of life a choice which could be a very good one this use of boast is for listing the good qualities of a place (formal) crowds, in a negative sense tourist industry (formal) makes the country different. The biggest attraction for visitors seeking something out of the ordinary⁸ is the wealth of⁹ wildlife. Large tracts¹⁰ of the country are still covered by virgin" rainforest, home to a huge range of flora and fauna¹².

There is great potential to develop eco-tourism¹³ as one of the major sources of income in the near future, says Harold Sijlbing, managing director of Stinasu, an organisation which promotes conservation of wildlife and ecological awareness.

1 go where there are not many people 2 go to places tourists don’t normally go 3 live a natural, rural style of life 4 a choice which could be a very good one 5 this use of boast is for listing the good qualities of a place (formal) 6 crowds, in a negative sense 7 touist industry (formal) 8 common collocation: looking for

something different/unusual ⁹ large amount of (formal) ¹⁰ areas of land, collocates with large, vast,

huge ¹' original and natural ¹² plants and animals (Latin); a fixed phrase ¹³ holidays that respect the environment

Guided tours for the discerning* traveller.

Ancient Sites in modern comfort.

Taste of the bush³: all travel in air-conditioned 4x4⁴ vehicles

Travel advertisements

Unwind¹ in Estera, recharge² in Postalia, all

from under £500

Stunning⁷ locations. Unbeatable⁸ prices. Phone now.

Rambles, hikes and treks" Unrivalled¹' programme /

Send for our brochure

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Waterfront⁵ villas, self- | catering, sleep up to six I

Awe-inspiring⁹

national parks ;

Savour¹² the renowned landscapes in our heartland¹

1. relax, reduce your general level of stress

2. get back your energy (like recharging a battery)

3. a term for the wild, tree- or grass-covered areas of Africa or Australia

4. pronounced four by four; vehicles with driving power on all four wheels

5. on the edge of the sea or of a river

6. who knows what he/she wants in terms of good quality

7. extremely beautiful

8. no other company can offer cheaper ones for the same service

9. it fills you with a sense of the power and beauty of what you are looking at

10. These three words represent a scale of length and difficulty. A ramble is a long, pleasant walk, not too demanding. A hike is more demanding, suggesting more difficult terrain. A trek is usually of several days over wild country.

11. no other holiday programme can match this

12. a word typically used in advertisements meaning enjoy

13. the inland areas furthest away from the sea or from borders with other countries

Exercises English Vocabulary in Use (Advanced)

32.1 Complete the expressions and collocations in these sentences, using words from A.

1. Malaysia some of the loveliest beaches in Asia.

2. The tourism is very important to the economies of many developing

countries.

3 It is vital that tourism should not damage the flora and of beautiful

areas of wildlife.

4. Most tourists like to feel free to off the track.

5. Nobody likes to travel to a place where there will be of other tourists.

6. People who spend all their time in big cities often like to back to

when they go away for a holiday.

7 If you're something out of the why not try a

snowboarding holiday? It's certainly different!

8. When I travel I always try to the crowd and find somewhere quiet.

9. There are vast of unspoilt land in the north of the country, with

rainforests and a of wildlife.

10 We've studied the brochures and Tasmania looks a choice for this year.

32.2 Look at these extracts from travel and tourism advertisements and, in your own words, say what they mean. Use a dictionary if necessary.

1 Itinerary includes three shore excursions and 10 nights at sea

2. Flights subject to availability

3. Single room supplement £30 per night

4. For instant bookings or quotations, call 01785 67844532

5. Fly-drive option available on request

32.3 Use words from B opposite to fill the gaps, based on the words given in brackets.

1. This company is excellent and their prices are (rival)

2. You should go into the to see the true culture of the country, (heart)

3. There are some absolutely beaches to the north, (stun)

4. I think Suntravel is when it comes to cheap destinations. (BEAT)

5. The mountains were so Many were over 5,000 metres high, (awe)

6. We rented a villa. It was nice to be so near the beach, (water)

7. I just want somewhere quiet and relaxing to for a week, (wind)

8. Everyone needs to their batteries now and again. (CHARGE)

32.4 Answer these questions.

1. Order these words from the most physically demanding to the least physically demanding: ramble, trek, hike

2. What verb might you find in travel advertisements meaning enjoy?

3. What adjective can be used with traveller to mean one who knows exactly what he or she wants in terms of quality and value?

4. Where would you find the bush?

5. How do you say this and what does it mean? 4x4

_{Film and book reviews} English Collocations in Use Advanced 62

Note the collocations in these reviews of the same film from different publications.

Quality newspapers

Larissa is an excellent film. It tells the story of what happens when a young woman decides to try to find out what really happened to her grandmother, who disappeared in Russia in the 1930s under mysterious circumstances. As the suspense builds up, Larissa sets off an amazing chain of events. It's an incredibly gripping film and its direction shows startling originality.

It was certainly a bold experiment¹ to cast Jenni Adams as a woman twice her age, but Jenni is a very accomplished actor and a consummate professional², and she carried it off brilliantly. And the rest of the star-studded cast gave a dazzling display of their talents too. The film, which documents an extraordinary series of events, was spectacularly successful in the US - the New York Times gave it glowing reviews', and not without good reason.

¹ a brave and risky thing to do ² (formal) complete professional ³ very positive reviews Popular (tabloid) newspaper

Whoever decided to cast Jenni Adams thing was the theme music. Perhaps

in the role of the disappearing grandma they'll release the CD of it - that would

in Larissa must have been out of their be something. The cinema next door was

mind. An unmitigated disaster⁴, strongly showing Screech of the Vampire - now

influenced' by the very worst kind of that I would highly recommend⁶ ... if you

Hollywood sentimentality. The only good can bear the suspense⁷!

⁴ total disaster ^s or heavily influenced, but NOT highly influenced ⁶ thoroughly recommend is also possible ⁷ can stand the excitement

Entertainment magazine

I usually think highly of Joel Hanson's films but this one, based on a novel by Slevan Gorsky, is a dismal failure. In spite of the all-star cast, the film just didn't hold my attention the way the book did. I was a college student when I read it, but it made a lasting impression⁸ on me. It fired my imagination more than any other book has ever done, and awakened my interest in Russia in the 1930s so much that my poor old bookshelves are groaning with books on Russian history! The film, however, simply failed to create⁹ the atmosphere of Leningrad in the 1930s which the book achieved so successfully.

⁸ We can also say an indelible impression, meaning a permanent one ⁹ also evoke an atmosphere

ERROR WARNING

Someone can have a considerable reputation or a well-deserved reputation, but NOT high reputation.

Exercises

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