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from Britain's most magical theme park, Alton Towers. Like the park, the hotel offers guests the chance to experience a delightful holiday full of fun and surprises. The first thing you'll notice when you enter the hotel is the extraordinary reception desk, which is made of piles antique luggage and a flying machine which stretches up to the ceiling! The hotel also includes an amazing range of themed rooms such as Peter Rabbit Bedrooms, the Garden Rooms, the Explorer Roc the Coca-Cola Fizzy Factory Room, and the Arabian Nights Suite which is possibly the most romantic hotel suite in the world. All the bedrooms have a bathroom, tea and coffee-making facilities, satellite TV and a baby

You'll feel great here at any weather! After a thrilling day at park, you can relax in the pool at the Pirate's Lagoon. Kids can join Pirate Bill's Club, which is a great opportunity to make. new friends while taking part in games, drawing and face-painting. The Secret Garden Restaurant offers delicious dishes from around the world, while the hotel's two bars, the Dragon Bar and the captain's Bar, are both ideal places to relax with a coffee or a cocktail in the evening. The Alton Towers Hotel is the ideal place for a fun family holiday at any time open from Mid-March to the end of October. It is the land

a) works at a hotel b) is a manager of a hotel - c) is staying at a hotel 2. A baby-listening facility.

a) helps you listen your baby while it is sleeping in another room b) looks after baby while you are swimming c) feeds your baby while you are dancing

c) an exciting day

c) very cheap

b) very tasty dishes

Christmas in My Family. Hello! My name is Alexander. I live in Ukraine. My family is large. I live with my parents

and grandparents. I've got two elder sisters Olga and Anna. Now they are students of Kyiv University and they visit our place only on holidays and some family occasions. Each Ukrainian family has its own customs and traditions. Ours s not an exception. My parents are very sociable and friendly people, so from time to time our house is full of guests. Our favourite holidays are New Year, Christmas and Women's Day. My mother thinks that at night of New Year's Eve the old year with all its troubles leaves us forever and the New Year

c) full of fats

listening facility.

of year, but the theme park is only where the magic never ends.

3. Choose the correct item. 1. A guest is someone who

3. Antique luggage is

4. A thrilling day is a) a boring day b) a hard day

fashionable b)

very old

5. Delicious dishes are

III. Read the third text and do the tasks.

a) very spicy dishes

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2. Match the opposites. 1 plenty of time

Young people in Great Britain have plenty of free time in the evenings and at the weekends to fill with hobbies of all kinds. There is no doubt that the most popular leisure activity of all is watching TV. In fact the average Briton watches about 25 hours of television every week. They have a choice of four national networks (BBCI, BBC2,1 TV and channel 4) plus a duen or so satellte and cable stations. The second most popular leisure activity is visiting or entertaining friends. Listening to music and reading follow in the third and fourth position. Going for a meal e to the cinema is widely spread among the British youth as well. Next comes voluntary work A surprising 25% of British adults are involved in voluntary work of se kind. There are more than 250,000 voluntary organisations in the UK. Many voluntary groups try to raise money for local charities connected with schools or churches while others concentrate on international problems such as famine in Africa. Perhaps the most traditional leisure activity is sport, which is divided into participation and spectator sport. The most popular spectator sport is football. Then we should mention rugby, cricket and athletics. When it comes to participation sport, nobody will be surprised to find that walking is number one in this way. Swimming is second Young men are also fond of snooker, darts, cycling and squash. Young women prefer to keep fit. At 15 years old and above young people try to find Saturday jobs, working as assistants in shops, cafes or restaurants to have pocket money They save this money for bicycles, motorbikes, and spend it for discos and dances. 1. What these numbers refer to, write out of the text. 250,000 25

a) working days

b) lack of time

c) to be indifferent to

d) to be sure

e) to spend money

L Read the test and do the tasks. Leisure of British Young People

2 weekends

Famous Places of the Country: Alton Towers- Where the Magic Never Ends! The Alton Towers Hotel is one of the most well-known hotel in England. It is set in the heart of Stafford-shire's scenic countryside in the North-West of England. It is only minutes away

3. to doubt

4. to save money

5. to be fond of

II. Read the text.