Учебное пособие G. G. Gubina english for tourists in professional communication part I textbook

Task 8. Listen to the dialogue ‘Booking Tickets’, dramatise it and say how you would reserve your ticket.
Roleplay it. Work in pairs or in small groups.  
provide (provided, provided, providing), provides, v 1 предоставлять 2 обеспечивать 3 
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Background Knowledge 
1. Airport Heathrow is the second airport in the world by traffic of passengers, situated fourteen miles 
west of London city centre, United Kingdom. The airport serves over eighty airlines worldwide, carrying 
annually more than seventy million passengers and one and a half tons of cargo. It has five terminals and 
three runways and makes available facilities for different categories of passengers including children, 
disabled passengers and businessmen. It also provides full range first class airport services.  
2. Airport Berlin Tegel is situated north-west of Berlin city centre, carrying more than twenty million 
passengers. It has four terminals, providing flights to different countries of the world.  
3. Foreign currency:  
GBP is the British pound of sterling (₤) or pound, the official British currency (₤1, ₤2 – coins; ₤5, ₤10, 
₤20, ₤50 – euro banknotes in circulation). Pound of sterling is subdivided into 100 pence. Pence is the 
plural form; penny (p) is the singular form for the coin (1p, 2p, 10p, 20p, 25p, 50p – coins). The currency 

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of the European Union is called EUR – euro (€) - €5, €10, €20, €50, €100, €200, €500 – banknotes. Euro 
consists of 100 euro cents I. The coins are issued as €1, €2; 50 c, 20 c, 10 c, 5 c, 2 c, 1 c.  
single ticket – билет в один конец 
return ticket – 1 билет в оба конца 2 обратный билет