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American Airports
American airports are organized on a rather different basis from
those in Europe. The
international sections are very small, and the domestic
sections, which include flights to
Canada and Mexico are very large by comparison. The larger
airports, too, are organized by
airline. Each line has not only separate check-in desks but also
separate gates, lounges or eventerminals. It is especially
important, therefore, to know which airline you are flying
with.
At American airports it is very often possible for people who
are not travelling themselves to
accompany passengers on domestic flights right to the departure
gate, provided that they also
pass through the security check. Similarly, arriving flights can
be met right at the gate.
Air services in the USA are generally excellent and relatively
inexpensive, and travel by air is
a very convenient way of getting around such a large country.
There are often cut-price
arrangements that are available for foreign visitors, especially
if you book before you leave
home, but these change from year to year, so you should check
with a travel agent. There are
also, from time to time, price-cutting wars and other
competitive struggles between the
different internal airlines, so we should make inquiries about
what the best deals are at any
given time. It is useful to note that in America a return ticket
is called a round-trip ticket,and a single ticket is called
one-way.
As in Europe, you can get to and from the larger American
airports by bus and by taxi.
You will also encounter a limousine or limmo for short which is
supposed to look like a
stretched car, with three or four rows of seats, and is supposed
to be more expensive although
performing the same service as normal taxi.
Baggage regulations are the same as for transatlantic flights,
and passengers are allowed to
check two pieces of luggage each, regardless of weight, if they
are of the correct dimensions
i.e. if the length+height+width of one does not exceed 65 inches
(1.65 metres) and if the
dimensions of the other do not exceed 55 inches (1.40
metres)
Misdirected baggage is a problem on internal flights, so it is
advisable to check out that your
bags are labelled clearly.
When you check in at an airport, you can request a smoking or a
non-smoking seat, but you
are not permitted to smoke cigars and pipes.
It is often possible to check in for a flight at the departure
gate if you are taking only hand
baggage.
Service on longer flights is very much like that on
transatlantic flights. Passengers are
provided with meals, drinks and films. The longer hauls usually
offer first-class and tourist
coach rates, though shorter flights are often one-class
only.
Questions:
1.
What basis are American airports organized on?
2. What does that mean that the larger airports are organized by
airline?
3. Can people who are not travelling reach departure gate and
under what condition?
4. What can you say about price-cutting wars and other
competitive struggles?
5. How can you get to and from the larger American airports?
6. Explain baggage regulations!
7.
Is it possible in some case to check in at the departure
gate?
8. What are the passengers provided with on longer flights?
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Make your own Conditionals following the first example:
1. Some people are rather fat because they eat too much and take
no exercise:
They would be thinner if they ate less and took more
exercise.
2. Ted is an intelligent person but he never studies.He never
learns anything either.
________________________________________________________________________
3. Your car looks awful. It's only because you never clean
it.
________________________________________________________________________
4. People never speak to Franck because he never speaks to
them.
______________________________________________________________________
5. You never read the papers and you never know what's
happening.
______________________________________________________________________
6. Jill never saves any money. That's why she never has any.
_________________________________________________________________________
7. Betty never looks nice. She needs some nice clothes, that's
all.
_______________________________________________________________________
8.
Max isn't happy. He hasn't any money.
_____________________________________
9. The manager isn't very popular. He never talks with his
employees.
___________________________________________________________
10.
That 's why he doesn't know anything about them.
____________________________________________________________
Present or past participle (ing or ed)
She was very terribly embarassed. It was a very
embarassingexperience .( EMBARAS)
The American was ____________ when he saw a dead rat. It was
really _____________
(DISGUST)
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I found the film very______________ . (AMUSE). Everyone was very
__________ when they
heard the story.
The news was quite _______________(SHOCK)
Lady was ___________ when she saw her late husband on the
screen. (HORRIFY )
It was a ______________ experience to me. (THRIL)
Find out the speakers' words:
She wanted to know where the station was.
_________________________________________
He wondered when I would be leaving
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She asked me which airline I was using.
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He wanted to know how much we had spent.
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They wanted to know who (had) told me.
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He asked me what time I started.
____________________________
He wanted to know how much it (had) cost.
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She said they would never agree.
_____________________________
She said that she was getting annoyed.
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