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2. (semi-open activity)
a) In a VIP lounge at Barajas Airport in Madrid.
b) Yes, the place is crowded.
c) Because of the flight delays caused by the adverse weather conditions.
d) He is a human resources manager in an American bank.
e) The text does not say where he is from originally but he lives in Boston.
f) They are waiting for their flights to be announced, so that one of them can go back to
where he lives and the other one can fly to Barcelona.
g) Certainly. They are very friendly to each other and in the end they exchange phone
numbers and email addresses.
h) They do not seem to have anything in common, apart from the fact that their flights
are both delayed.

3. (semi-open activity)
- No, she means she wants to know about your job / what you do for a living / what you
work on, etc.
- She is asking you whether things at work are going well.
- She wants to know if you could manage to make enough profit.

4.
a) Kissing each other.
b) Shaking hands.
c) Giving each other a hug.
d) Giving each other a five.
e) Bowing.
f) Greeting with the hand.

The most acceptable gesture would be b).

5.
- Nice to meet you, Mr. Ron. My name is Susan Smith.
- Did you have a nice flight?
- Oh, I’m terribly sorry. You would have thought they would provide an alternative
means of transport in such cases.
- They would have in the US and many other places I know.
- Fair enough. Would you fancy something to eat? Are you hungry or thirsty?
- What kind of food do you like?
- Where’s your luggage, by the way?
- Oh, dear, that’s awful. Is there anything at all I could get for you?
- Sure, I’ve got a spare shaver at home and my husband is about your size.
- We can get a taxi now and stop at my house so that I can get both things for you.

8.
a) American
b) French
c) German
d) Chinese
e) Russian
f) Canadian
g) Indian
h) Spanish
i) Norwegian
j) French Canadian
k) Italian
l) Mexican

10.
All but e) are native.

11.
i)

a) - - S f) b, c - S k) b- P p) c - S
b) c - P g) –a, b - S l) a - S q) a, b - P
c) b – S h) - - P m) - - S r) a, c - S
d) c – P i) - - S n) a - S s) - - P
e) b – P j) a - S o) c- S t) - - P

13.
Food and Beverage Manager

Head-waiter Chef Sommelier Barman Cloak-room Attendant

Waiter Chef-de-partie

Commis waiter Cook

Prep cook

Financial Manager

Accountant

Worker

Marketing Manager

Clerk

Front Office Manager

Head—receptionist

Night auditor Concierge Cashier Butler

Bell-boy

15. (semi-open activity)

a) She is a nurse.
b) He is a film director.
c) She is travel agent.
d) He is a fisherman.
e) He is an executive / a white-collar worker (A blue-collar worker is a member of the
working class who typically performs manual labor and earns an hourly wage. Blue-
collar workers are distinguished from those in the service sector and from white-collar
workers, whose jobs are not considered manual labor; definition taken from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-collar_worker).

16.
- usher / usherette
- waiter / waitress
- actor / actress
- male writer / female writer
- male author / female author / authoress
- midwife / midwife
- barman / barmaid
- chairman, chair / chair
- horseman, male horse rider / female horse rider

19. (semi-open activity)

a) The weather in Rome is partly sunny, partly cloudy.
b) The weather in Athens is sunny (and hot / warm).
c) Light rain is expected in Lisbon today.
d) There is heavy rain in Reykjavik today.
e) It is snowing in the Alps today.

Country Capital
Albania Tirana
Andorra Andorra la Vella
Armenia Yerevan
Austria Vienna
Azerbaijan Baku
Belarus Minsk
Belgium Brussels
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
Bulgaria Sofia
Croatia Zagreb
Cyprus Nicosia
Czech Republic Prague
Denmark Copenhagen
Estonia Tallinn
Finland Helsinki
France Paris
Georgia Tbilisi
Germany Berlin
Greece Athens
Hungary Budapest
Iceland Reykjavík
Ireland Dublin
Italy Rome
Kazakhstan Astana
Latvia Riga
Liechtenstein Vaduz
Lithuania Vilnius
Luxembourg Luxembourg
Republic of Macedonia Skopje
Malta Valletta
Moldova Chişinău
Monaco Monaco
Montenegro Podgorica
Netherlands Amsterdam and Hague
Norway Oslo
Poland Warsaw
Portugal Lisbon
Romania Bucharest
Russia Moscow
San Marino San Marino
Serbia Belgrade
Slovakia Bratislava
Slovenia Ljubljana
Spain Madrid
Sweden Stockholm
Switzerland Bern
Turkey Ankara
Ukraine Kiev
United Kingdom London
Vatican City Vatican City

20.

Shower -

flurry -

drizzle -

frost -

hail -

deluge -
sleet -

rain -

blizzard –

snow –

slush -

fog -

lightning –

hailstones –
mist –

dew –

downpour -

thunder –

haze –

tornado -

heat wave –

hot spell -

22. (semi-open activity)

a) First class and business clients.
 b) Everything: food, beverages, press, TV, computing equipment with Internet
connection, meeting rooms, beds, bathroom with shower, etc.
c) Not at all. Some VIP lounges are extremely luxurious, like the Emirates one.
d) Many things! (see section 26).
e) Wait for one’s flight in the most amusing and pleasurable possible way!

24.
a) Cultural
b) Educational
c) Adventure
d) Incentive
e) Health
f) Ecotourism
g) Research
h) Sport

25. (semi-open activity)

Airport area Action undertaken there

Departures area The part of the airport terminal where all the passengers that are going
to fly congregate, together with any family or friends who have come to
see them off. Some people come by taxi, others are brought by car.
Sometimes you can go in your own car and park it in the airport car
park (but you should be careful since these are expensive!). The
departures area is full of such things as: check-in points and airline
desks, cash dispensers, shops, cafeterias, currency conversion
services, toilets, medical services, places of worship, telephones, etc.
Check in desk You stand in line with other passengers on the same flight as you to
show your one-way or return flight reservation and identity
document (typically a passport), get your boarding card and have your
luggage checked in. Any carry-on luggage will be tagged. These days it
is possible to obtain your boarding pass using an automatic check in
machine found in the departure area of the airport, or on the Web of the
airline before you travel. A boarding pass will have information of the
boarding and take off time, the boarding gate and your seat number.
Passport control and Once you have your boarding pass you have to go through passport
security check control and security. Your carry-on luggage and coats and bags will be
scanned by an X-ray machine to ensure that you do not have anything
that is not allowed by international flight regulations. You will have to
walk through a metal detector in the form of an electronic arch. Once
you go through this point, any family or friends who have come to see
you off have to say goodbye since they are not allowed to follow.
Cafeteria Given the complexities of how an airport operates and the queues that
can form, passengers are typically expected to arrive two hours before
their flight leaves. Since the check-in process is usually finished well
under that time, it is often desirable to use the airport cafeteria to have
something to eat or drink before boarding your flight. Food and
beverages are expensive on board!
Airline desks Representations of the airlines that fly out of a given airport, typically
found in the departure area. You would use them to check on some
 detail of your flight before leaving (such as transfer times), buy a
domestic or international ticket if you do not have one or have missed
your flight, change your flight, or to check up on flight status if there
have been a technical problem, delay or, worse, accident.
Airport Duty-free shops Once you have passed though passport control and security there are
shops where things are cheaper because they are exempt from local
taxes and duties, since you will be taking them out of the country.
VIP lounge These lounges, sometimes called first class lounges, are special waiting
areas for passengers with a special type of ticket (e.g., a first class
ticket). Frequent fliers, who have acquired lots of points on their
airline fidelity cards from the journeys they have made, are often also
allowed to use these lounges. They typically contain free food and
drinks, newspapers and magazines, Wi-Fi, etc.
Boarding gate Identified by a code typically made up of a letter and a group of
numbers, for example: A-39. Passengers wait at the boarding gate before
being allowed to board the airplane. When your flight is announced on
the tannoy you form a queue and enter the airplane with the help of the
crew. Sometimes the boarding is undertaken according to the row
number and a letter that corresponds to the position of the seat with
respect to the aisle (window, middle, etc.). Boarding is an inherently
slow process because, unless the airplane is very large, there will be only
one aisle, so people can only enter and get seated one at a time, taking
time to remove their coats and stow carry-on luggage under their
seats or in the overhead lockers.
Baggage collection After arriving at your destination, getting off the airplane and going
through passport control, you go to baggage collection (unless you have
only taken carry-on bags). Here you have to check a monitor that shows
which baggage carrier belt will contain the luggage from your flight.
You typically have to wait at the belt for the luggage to be brought from
the airplane. Then the belt will start to move, the suitcases and other
types of luggage will appear on it, and be retrieved by the waiting
passengers.
Transit lounge When you have a connecting flight, that is to say, your first flight does
not go to your destination directly but requires you to change to another
flight in some national or foreign airport, you quite often have to use
what is called a transit lounge, until your next flight is ready for you to
board. These lounges are temporary waiting areas that are there to
make your stay pleasant and more importantly, stop you from leaving
the airport.
Arrivals area This part of the airport is where all passengers who have just arrived on
an airplane, gone through passport control and obtained their baggage
end up. It typically has links to all possible means of transport (such as
buses, metro, trains, car hire, etc.) to enable passengers to get to their
final destinations. People who have come to pick you up will wait
here, either outside the “no goods to declare” door or at the meeting
point.

26.
a) a football league
b) a page book
c) a tree branch
d) a leg of a horse
e) a department of a company
f) a bottle cork
g) a computer mouse
h) a pen top

27.
a) women’s toilet
b) men shoes
c) dog’s bone
d) user profile
e) dolly’s arm
f) Mary’s mother
g) pupils’ hair
h) words of the sentence
i) water of the river
j) father’s pride

28.
a) Columbus discovered America on 12th October 1492.
b) Columbus discovered America in 1492.
c) Columbus discovered America in 15th century.
d) Columbus discovered America at 4 p.m.
e) Columbus discovered America in the afternoon.
f) Columbus discovered America in October.
g) Columbus discovered America on 12th.

29.
a) Where is your suitcase? At home.
b) Where is your suitcase? On the car roof.
c) Where is your suitcase? In the living-room.
d) Where is your suitcase? In the car.
e) Where is your suitcase? In London.
f) Where is your suitcase? At the petrol station.
g) Where is your suitcase? In the lost property.
h) Where is your suitcase? In Weston-super-Mare.

30.
a) to - by
b) to - by
c) to - of
d) to - for
e) in - ---

38.
a) I’m sorry for having lost my nerves.
b) I’m sorry I lost my nerves.
c) I’m sorry about the delay.
d) Sorry about that.
e) I’m ever so sorry for leaving you out of the project.
f) Please accept my apologies for having had to leave before the end of your
magnificent speech.
g) Please forgive me for my ignorance.
h) Please forgive my ignorance.

40.
SPANISH FRENCH GERMAN ITALIAN DUTCH
Mexico Belgium Germany Italy Netherlands
Argentina Benin Austria Malta Belgium
Chile Burkina Liechtenstein Monaco Suriname
Dominican Burundi Switzerland San Marino
Republic
Nicaragua Cameroon Luxembourg Switzerland
Uruguay Canada Italy Vatican
City
Colombia Central Belgium
African
Republic
Spain Chad Poland
Peru Comoros
Venezuela Congo
Ecuador Democratic
Republic
of Congo
Guatemala Cote d'Ivoire
Cuba Djibouti
Bolivia France
Honduras Gabon
Salvador Guinea
Paraguay Haiti
Costa Rica Luxembourg
Panama Madagascar
Equatorial Mali
Guinea
Monaco
Niger
Rwanda
Senegal
Seychelles
Switzerland
Togo
Vanuatu
Vietnam

1. Antigua and Barbuda

2. Australia
3. The Bahamas
4. Bangladesh
5. Barbados
6. Belize
7. Botswana
8. Brunei Darussalam
9. Cameroon
10. Canada
11. Cyprus
12. Dominica
13. Fiji Islands
14. The Gambia
15. Ghana
16. Grenada
17. Guyana
18. India
19. Jamaica
20. Kenya
21. Kiribati
22. Lesotho
23. Malawi
24. Malaysia
25. Maldives
26. Malta
27. Mauritius
28. Mozambique
29. Namibia
30. Nauru
31. New Zealand
32. Nigeria
33. Pakistan
34. Papua New Guinea
35. Rwanda
36. St Kitts and Nevis
37. St Lucia
38. St Vincent and the Grenadines
39. Samoa
40. Seychelles
41. Sierra Leone
42. Singapore
43. Solomon Islands
44. South Africa
45. Sri Lanka
46. Swaziland
47. Tonga
48. Trinidad and Tobago
49. Tuvalu
50. Uganda
51. United Kingdom
52. United Republic of Tanzania
53. Vanuatu
54. Zambia