Make Your Way 5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Internet project Interrail started as a way of offering young people a cheap way of exploring the Continent by train. Depending on which ticket you buy you have unlimited travel through- out Europe for up to a month. Now Interrail is open to older people. Of course, they have to pay more! Do some research on the Internet and find out how much these people will have to pay for their tickets. 1 Dave is 24. He has a three- week holiday and wants to visit friends in Zurich and Copen- hagen. 2 Sally is 19. She lives in Dublin and has a month before she starts university. She wants to get down to North Africa. 3 Bob is 27. He’s studying Art at university and wants to visit the Louvre, the Uffizi and the Prado. Read the poem and fill in the following words. Now listen and check to see if you were right. to wave at trains: Zügen zuwinken to hurtle [ }hä:t‹l ]: : (dahin-)rasen daft: doof blank faces: ausdruckslose Gesichter out of harm’s way: außer Gefahr mistaken belief: Irrglaube 5 6 arms continue driver grinning love passengers secret tongues universe Waving at Trains Do people who wave at trains Wave at the , or the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the ? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces? They must think we like being waved at. Children do perhaps, and alone In a compartment, the occasional passenger Who is himself a waver at trains. But most of us are unimpressed. Some even think they’re daft. Stuck out there in a field, . But our ignoring them, our blank faces, Even our pulled and up you signs Come three miles further down the line. Out of harm’s way by then They their walk. Refreshed and made pure by the mistaken belief That their has been returned, because they have not seen it rejected. It’s like God in a way. Another day Another . Always off somewhere. And left behind, the faithful few, Stuck out there. Alone in compartments. All innocence. in the air. Waving. Roger McGough Design your own Interrail trip. Decide how long you’re going to be away, where you’re going and some of the things you’re going to do. Also work out a budget (how much money you’re going to spend) for the trip. 1/12 92 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv