Revision sheet: Holidaying and Art Shows

📋 Plan du Cours

1. Vocabulaire des voyages
2. Circuits organisés
3. Activités de vacances
4. Spectacles et expositions artistiques
5. Tourisme spatial

📖 1. Vocabulaire des voyages

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Package tour : an organised trip arranged by a travel agency
• Cosmopolitan city : a city inhabited by people from different nations

★ À maîtriser

📌 A destination is the place a traveller intends to visit, whereas a venue is the place where an event or show takes place.

📌 To check in means to enter a hotel, whereas to check out means to leave it.

Compléments

• The expressions “on foot”, “by plane”, “by train” and “by car” describe different means of travelling.

💡 Astuce mémo

Préparer → voyager → arriver → séjourner

📖 2. Circuits organisés

★ À maîtriser

• The source identifies these package-tour benefits:

  • good organisation
  • fewer legal formalities
  • opportunities to make new acquaintances
  • material privileges
  • cultural information from the guide

• Material benefits of package tours can include free access to cultural events and shopping discounts.

• Package tours can limit the passenger’s freedom and spoil the whole trip if the passenger dislikes the accompanying group.

Compléments

• There may be a gap between the promises made by a travel agency and the actual execution of the trip.

• When a customer is disappointed by a travel service, the customer can complain and seek compensation or a refund.

💡 Astuce mémo

Avantages pour le confort, inconvénients pour la liberté

📖 3. Activités de vacances

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Cybertrip : a virtual trip made on the internet

★ À maîtriser

• Examples of active-holiday activities are:
  • camping
  • hiking
  • climbing mountains

Compléments

📌 A host receives a guest, whereas a guest is the person received by the host.

• A travel agent, a tour operator and a tourist guide are presented as terms referring to a tourism professional who assists travellers.

💡 Astuce mémo

Active holidays ≠ lazy holidays

📖 4. Spectacles et expositions artistiques

★ À maîtriser

📌 A show can be a performance or an exhibition, and an art show is a cultural event that may include refreshments.

• A booking is a reservation, and “to book” means to reserve a place or ticket.

• The cast of a play or film is the group of actors and actresses who perform in it.

📌 Optimism expresses a positive outlook, whereas pessimism expresses a negative outlook.

Compléments

• A show may tackle or address a subject, while a director, actors, actresses and the cast contribute to its production.

💡 Astuce mémo

Une scène où acteurs, réalisateur et public se rencontrent

📖 5. Tourisme spatial

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Space tourism : travel for tourists aboard spacecraft to space destinations, including suborbital flights

📝 Points essentiels

• The source lists these space-tourism terms:

  • space suit
  • spacecraft
  • spaceport
  • space shuttle
  • spaceship
  • rocket
  • suborbital flights

• Space tourism is an emerging industry with exorbitant prices that mainly targets well-to-do, affluent or wealthy customers.

• The greatest gain from space tourism is the extension of human knowledge, and space tourism can also help improve a country’s economy.

• According to John.F.Kneddy, when humans reach beyond this planet, they should leave national differences behind them, which spreads tolerance and abolishes racism.

💡 Astuce mémo

Accès à l’espace → connaissances, économie et tolérance

📊 Tableaux de synthèse

Avantages et inconvénients des circuits organisés

Avantages	Inconvénients
Bonne organisation	Liberté du passager limitée
Moins de formalités légales	Voyage compromis si le groupe déplaît
Nouvelles connaissances et privilèges	Écart possible entre promesses et exécution