2.1 Expectation j Speaking 1 Work with a partri the photos. Wt + get off the beaten track? + beable to chill out? + possibly have to rough it? + end up spending a fortune? + get by ona shoestring budget? + enjoy being a cultuve vulture? + get back to nature? + bein the lap of luxury © Bam spot InPartzfFapersthere area number ofshort texts or one long text dhided into sections Yourneed toread the secilons careful and then lok at the questions Underline your answer when you Rave found it Make sure that your Undertined text fully answers he question, Reading ‘The prospect of a holiday is liable to persuade even ‘the most downeast that life is worth living. Few events are anticipated more eagerly, nor forrn the subject of more complex and enriching daydreams. They offer Us pethaps our finest chance to achieve happiness = ‘outside of the constraints af work, of our struggle for ‘survival and for status. The way we choose to spend, ‘them embodies, if only unknewingly, an understanding _of what life might ideally be about. However, holidays almost alvays go. wrong. The tragicomic disappointments of travel are a staple of office chat; ‘the half-built hotel, the sense of disorientation, the mid-afternoon despair, the dreary fellow travellers, the lethargy before ancient ruins. remember a trip to Barbados a few years ago, | looked forward to it for months, But on my first morning on ‘the island, | realised something at once obvious and. ‘surprising; that my body proved a temperamental partner. Asked to sit an.a deckchair so that the mind could savour the beach, the trees and the sun, It collapsed into difficulties; the ears complained of an enervatting wind, the skin of stickiness and the ‘toes of sand ladged between them. Unfortunately, | had brought something else that risked clouding my appreciation of my surroundings: my entire mind — not ‘only the part that had planned the journey and agreed ‘to pay for it, but also the part committed to anxiety, boredom, self-disgust and financial alarm. At home, a | had pored over the photographs of Barbados, | had felt oblivious ta anything besides their contents. I had) simply been in the pictures: alone with thelr elements But melancholy and regrets were my bedfellows on ‘that Caribbean isle, acting like panes of distorting glass between myself and the world.\ eed ‘There was a trip to a hotel in France a ‘friend took with his wife. The setting ‘was sublime, the room flawless ~and yet they managed to have a row which, for all the good the room and setting did them, meant that they might as well have stayed at home. The row (it started with who had forgotten the key in the room and extended to cover the whole of the ‘telationship) was a reminder of the rigid, tunforaiving logic to which human moods seem subject ~ and which we ignore at ur peril. Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic or material goods seems critically dependent on first satisfying 4 more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them. ‘the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect D it may be necessary to accept thatthe anticipation of travel s perhaps the best part about it. Our holidays are never as satisiying as they are when they exist in an as-yet unrealised form; in the shape of an airline ticket and a brochure. in ‘the great 198™-century novel, Against Nature, by JK Huysrans, the narrator goes-on a few holidays which go wrong and then decides never to leave home again. He has the itineraries of the major shipping companies framed! and lines his bedroom with them, He fills an aquarium ‘with seaweed, buys asall some rigging and a pot of tar and, with theve side & able to experience the most pleasant sides of a long sea voyage without the inconveniences such a5 sea-sickness, continue to travel myself but there are times vihen | to0-feel there might be no finer journeys than those provoked in the Imagination by remaining at home slowly ‘turing the pages of an airline timetable. C= 3 Yourneed to decide in which part of the text you will find the answer to the questions. Oo the following question far practice. Which section mentions a number af unanticipated problems faced by the writer? You will see that there are problems mentioned in sections A, B, Cand D (highlighted), However, which section mentions problems whick are ‘enanticipated’ and faced by the writer’? fl Now do questions 2-8, Which section mentions the possibility of the writer altering a previous pattern of behaviour? negative emotions being ever present? the fact the some conditions must be met for other aims to be achieved? the frequency of a certain topic being raised? the possibility that an unfulfilled objective may be more desirable? the writer finding it impossible to achieve his goal? the belief that the selection ofa holiday is a product of an unconscious desire? FA FA A fA Vocabulary Collocations with traveller 4 The writer in the article talks about ‘dreary fellow travellers. Circle the most suitable collocation in these sentences. 2 Dr Parr was a frequent J recurrent traveller to Dublin bb There has been a rise in the numbers of self-contained / indepenstent travellers as opposed to those on packages. € Seasoned ? Practsed travellers know exactly how to get an upgrade on their bookings. 4 'm fed up with reading about all these émtrepid f heroic travellers going up the Amazon river in a canoe, € The hotel offers fatigued / weary travellers an excellent ‘opportunity to recharge their batteries. £ LuxVae is the resort for judicious / liscerning travellers — cones who know how to appreciate the good things in life. & My father has always been more of a/ am armchair | sofa traveller, much to my mother’s disgust! hi Susie isthe kind of inveterate f habitual traveller who will probably never settle down in one place 1 The hotel touts lie in wait for unguarded / unwary travellers and then take them to unsuitable lodgings. 5 Discuss with a partner. + Do-you agree with the ideas put forward by the writer? Why / Why not? + De-you think its better to travel hopefully than arrive? inp Why not