Vocabulary Extra

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Intermediate Unit 8, p64: Travel situations
Review
1 Match 18 with ah.
1 Jack says hell give a cancelled
B1
.
2 Im afraid their car has got b lost
B1
in the airport. I was absolutely terrifed.
3 Im sorry but the fight has been c down
B1
in the middle of the motorway.
4 When we got d us a lift
A2
.
5 After a while, we got a e off
A2
at the next stop, then walk for fve minutes.
6 When I was a kid, I got f on
A2
the train, we went straight to the dining car.
7 And then the car broke g stuck
B2
in traffc in the city centre.
8 We have to get h lift
A2
from a couple of teenagers.
2 Cover exercise 1. Complete the sentences with the missing words.
Hi, Jim. We thought our ight had been
1
but it wasnt. Were just getting
2
the plane now. Ill
call you again when we get there.
When our car
3
down in the desert, we
4
a lift in a huge truck to the next town.
My trains got
5
just outside the station. Its terribly crowded and we want to get
6
it, but they
wont let us.
I got
7
while hiking but nally found a main road. Then a guy stopped and
8
me a lift into
town.
Extension
3 Read the web postings. Which underlined expression is related to:
1 getting onto the wrong road?
2 (vehicle) no longer having petrol or diesel?
3 being delayed?
4 having no air inside?
5 hitting something?
6 being moved?
7 (person) no longer having power over something?
8 (equipment) no longer having power?
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4 Cover exercise 3. Replace the underlined words with the new expressions in the correct form.
1 I was quite annoyed to fnd that two of my tyres had no air.
I was quite annoyed to find that two of my tyres were flat.
2 He was driving and talking on his mobile phone when he hit the stop sign.
3 Your car wont start? Maybe the batterys got no power.
4 She was delayed because of an accident on the motorway.
5 Be careful not to turn down the wrong road. Its easy to get lost in that area.
6 Suddenly he had no power over the car and it went off the road into a feld.
7 There was something wrong with our plane so we were moved to another one.
8 Oh, dear. I think weve got no fuel left.
Nightmare Journeys

On our coach trip, the driver made a wrong turn
B2

onto a country road. It was so rough and full of holes
that he lost control
B2
and the coach ran into
B2
a tree
and broke down. No one was hurt, but we had to wait
two hours for help. Then all the passengers and bags
were transferred
B1
to a replacement coach, and that
took ages. I think we were held up
B1
for about four
hours in the end. Kirsty, Scotland

On the frst day of my trip, right after lunch, I noticed
one of my cars tyres was fat
A2
so I had to change it.
The next morning, I found the battery was dead
B2
.
I dont know why. Maybe I hadnt closed my door
properly. What next? I thought, I suppose Im going
to run out of fuel
B1
, but no, everything was fne after
that. Jens, Belgium