Activities. • Learn the conversation by heart.

• Learn the conversation by heart.

• Suggest questions from the dialogue to suit the answers:

- Take any train to Salisbury. - The next train leaves in 15 minutes.

- Platform 1. - You'll arrive at 11.30.

- It takes roughly 2 hours and ahalf. - No, it's a through train.

• Play the parts of Л and В without looking at the book.

• Make up your own conversation for the situation, changing the circumstances the
way you like.

Checking in at a hotel

• Read the conversation that presents a typical situation at л hotel. Make up your
own conversation.

Receptionist: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! What can I do for

you?

Visitor: Good morning. We are Russian businessmen. We have a reser­vation made for us by the Tech Corporation. Rec.: Just a minute. Oh, yes. 8 double rooms for a fortnight. Vis.: Sorry, there's been a little change. Now we need 7 doubles and

2 singles. Rec.: I'm sorry, sir, but we are having a big international conference

here this week and we're booked out. You should have mentioned

the change when you confirmed your reservations. Vis.: You see, that was the last minute change. Do you think you can

do anything about it now? We need the single rooms for our top

executives. Rec.: Could they share a room for at least a couple of days? Some of

the conference participants are leaving on Thursday and we'll

move your executives to single rooms. Vis.: Good. Then it's settled. How much arc the rooms? Rec.: Singles are... pounds and doubles are... pounds a day. If it's OK

with you, fill in the check- in cards.

Words and word combinations yon may need

top executive - руководящий работ­ник, управляющий высшего чадна single (room) — одноместный номер double (room) - двухместный номер

Role-play

Imagine that students in an international student club are discussing lifestyles and living standards in their countries.

Unit 3

II. The Budget. Taxes

Be ready to contribute and describe (briefly);

• The development of different branches of Russian economy;

• The living standards of the population;

• The consumer market and the consumer demand in Russia.

II.

The Budget. Taxes

• a) Read and translate the text, b) Answer the comprehension questions to the text,
c) Render the text.

Text A