English 8 ding. Read the texts and watch them with the titles. There is one title you don't have to use. How to Travel Fairly Cheap A Part of England That "Is Not England" The Method of Travelling Widely Used by the First Settlers in America The Fastest Method of Travelling Britain Today A Comfortable Way of Travelling That Gives You Independence What images spring to mind when you lie back and think of England? Is this the country you would ke to visit? And what country do the majority of tourists expect to find on the British Isles? Is it cool Britannia, a contented modern country, or is it a country that still can't get used to the loss of its empire? The latest United Nations' report on "quality of life" in Europe puts Britain in a top ten, along with Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden. B. If you are young, fearless and desperate to go travelling, even on a limited budget, then hitchhiking is just the method of travelling for you. It is a completely unique way of travelling. It is not a guided tour when you are placed into a coach full of other tourists and then taken round famous historic sites. You can go and do whatever you decide and you have an enormous amount of freedom. Another advantage of it is the price. C America B.C. (Before the Car) was a much different place than it was after all those Fords became available to millions of Americans. Today the United States has two-fifths of all passenger cars in the world: over 121 million. The US has developed an enormous modern transportation system and an extensive network of roads and highways. This system enables Americans to travel freely and comfortably wherever they want. D Fast of the Mississippi the USA is very much "a nation of rivers". This fact can surprise visitors from other countries as the information about rivers in America in their schoolbooks is rather short. Only such rivers as the Missouri, Ohio and Columbia are usually mentioned. Yet waterways have always been in usc from the earliest colonial days. Travel by waler was the favourite means of transportation. It explains the fact that most of America's largest cities first grew around ocean harbours, along rivers, or later, by canals. E Many tourists visit Comwall, the famous peninsula in the southwest of England. It is a popular arca for travellers and it is really worth seeing. The place is full of quaint things. There are stone crosses the loft, on the right and before you everywhere, ancient upright stones. In Cornwall, you can see the sea Thore is hardly a place there where you couldn't see the sea from. Here visitors are in a different England. And the Cornishmen say it is not England it is Cornwall. You can distinguish the Cornish from the and the wind, and have dark hair. The ancient English at first glance, the former are very tanned by the language is nearly forgotten. Yot a lot of geographical names do not sound English: Trebethchick, Troquisquite, Trelawney.