Monday, June 13, 2011

Booking holidays online

Stephen and Alice talk about booking holidays online and the language used in advertising holidays on the internet.

This week's question:

Ctrip.com, the top online travel company in China, announced a huge increase in profits between January and March. But how much was the increase?

a) 13%

b) 23%

c) 33%

Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!


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Vocabulary


hidden costs



charges for a product or service that are not clearly advertised by the seller


clicking



selecting links on internet pages by pressing on your computer mouse


budgeted for



amount of money you had planned to spend


an emotional commitment



a personal connection to a plan or course of action, which you feel it is important to complete


to pull out



to decide not to do something, or withdraw from a commitment


a great boon



very helpful or beneficial


a round-trip



American English, meaning a return trip, or journey which takes you to a place and back to where you started


deceptive



make you believe something that is not true





Source: BBC Learning English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/

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