mist; to be (to get) wet through; the things are damp, soaked; the wind rises, drives the clouds away, brings rain, drops; it's a
hot, stuffy day; the heat is stifling, unbearable; there is hardly a breath of air; not a leaf is stirring; it's 30 (degrees) above (zero)
in the shade; a day to tempt anyone out.
3. Meals: meals in the open air; cooking utensils; frying-pan; saucepan; pot; kettle, tea-pot, to get a kettle to boil; tin, tinned
food, tin-opener; pocket knife; gas-burner; water-container; eggs and bacon, scrambled eggs; plain, nourishing breakfast; to
peel, to scrape potatoes; to stir, to mix; to crack, to squash, to smash; to clean, to scrape out a frying-pan; to spill; odds and
ends; flavour; good stuff; like nothing else on earth; to make a fire, to put out the fire; to light a gas-stove; to settle oneself for
a meal; to squat down to supper; burnt and unappetising-looking mess; to give smb. a good appetite; to wash up.
4. Sleep: to camp out, to sleep out; a picnic site; to fix (to pitch) a tent, to strike a tent; sleeping-bag; to be fast asleep, not to
sleep a wink; torch.
5. Bathing and boating: to look down at the river and shiver; to throw water over oneself, a tremendous splash; to dive; to
swim, to have a swim; to run one's boat into a quiet nook; to hire a boat; to get upset; to row up (down) the river (stream); to
steer; bow, stern; canoe, rowing-boat, motor-boat, yacht; to land, to get out; to scull, tow, to punt; raft, to raft; strong current; a
refreshing bathe.
Read the following passage, comment on it and then answer the questions which follow it.
A Walking Tour
To be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone. If you go in a company, or even in pairs, it is no
longer a walking tour in anything but name; it is something else and more in the nature of a picnic. A walking tour
should be gone upon alone because you should be able to stop and go on, and follow this way and that, as the
whim takes you; and because you must have your own pace, and neither trot alongside a champion walker, nor
mince in time with a girl. And you must be open to all impressions and let your thoughts take colour from what
you see. You should be as a pipe for any wind to play upon. There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow, to
jar on the meditative silence of the morning. And so long as a man is reasoning he cannot surrender himself to that
fine intoxication that comes of much motion in the open air, that begins in a sort of dazzle and sluggishness of the
brain, and ends in a peace that passes comprehension.