EVERYDAY ENGLISH Transport and travel 1. Write the words in the chart. Some words can go in more than one column. airport rallway station busstop flight bus ‘rain plane retumticket ticket office platform departures, arrivals customs hand luggage boarding pass security check 2 Listen to three travel announcements, Are they for bus, train, or plane? 3 Listen again. Write down all the numbers you hear. What do they refer to? Which places can you remember? 4 Read these lines. Are they for bus, train, or plane? 1 The number 360 stops near the museum. 2 The platform number has just gone up on the departures board, 3 Does the number 24 go to the Natural History Museum? 4. How many pieces of hand luggage have you got? 5 You board from Gate 9 at 10.20. 6 You'll want a day return. 5. Work with a partner. Put the lines in A and B in the correct order to make two conversations. Conversation 1 Conversation 2 a B A [8 ‘At 955.The platform number | [| Oh, yes. can see. Thank | Ob, thanks foryourhelp. | || From that bus stop over hasjust gone up onthe you very much, "| Where can gt it? there. departures board. ‘A day return to Oxford, Wieeerersis | Don't mention it. 1 Next, please! please. ‘umber 24 go to the | No, it doesn't. Youneed Have a good journey! ‘Thank you. What time Natural History Museum? | the 360. That’ £270. does the next tain leave? Listen and check. Practise the conversations with your partner. 6 GHD Listen and complete this conversation. Where are Lara and Mel? A Have you online? M Yes, we have, A Fine, How many ___ have you got? L We havent got ‘A. Oh, yes. Can you put them on the scales? M Here you are... ‘A. They're fine, And how many pieces of___? L Just these__. A. They're fine, too. You. L_ Where do we go now? A To the departure gate and M Thanks very much. Goodbye. just from Gate 9 at 10.20. ‘They're over there, Have a nic 7 Practise the transport and travel conversations with your partner, D> WRITING GEEREB A poem pi7 Act some of them to the class. Unit 2 + Never ever! 101