UNIT 7 – Language in action

ASKING FOR AND GIVING DIRECTIONS

NAME: Bryan Pachacama
DATE: 06/07/2020

1. Watch or listen to the conversation and answer the questions.

1. Where does Dana want to go? The Museo del Barrio
2. How many people does she ask? She asks three people
3. Who is about to leave? Speaker 2
4. Who isn´t helpful because they don´t have any information? Speaker 1
5. Who Knows a lot about museum? Speaker 3
2. Look at the map. Dana´s destination is marked in red. Where is she when the conversations are taking
place?

She is on the corner of East 96th Street and

2nd
Avenue.
3. Match 1-9 with a-i to make phrases from the conversations.
asking for giving
directions directions
1. Do you know where h a a right.
2. How long will e b five blocks away
3. I´m looking c c for the Museo del Barrio.
4. Fifth Avenue is b d going.
5. Keep d e it take to talk?
6. Take a f miss it.
7. The best way is to go left i g right
8. Turn g h the Museo del Barrio is?
9. You can´t f i from here and go one block to East 97th.
Street

4. Mark the phrases with the correct definition in exercise 3.

asking for giving
directions directions
1. Do you know where the museum is x
2. How long will it take? x
3. I´m looking for the Museo de Barrio x
4. Fifth Avenue is x
5. Keep right x
6. Take a right x
7. The best way is to go left from here and x
th
go one block to East 97 . Street
8. Turn right x
9. You can´t miss it x

5. Listen and match each version of Excuse me with the correct meaning.(Audio 2.24)
Speaker 1 a a I don´t believe what you just did. It makes me mad.
Speaker 2 b b Can I interrupt you, please?
Speaker 3 d c I´m in a hurry. Can I squeeze past you?
Speaker 4 c d I just made a noise (sneeze, burp, etc). Sorry.

VOCABULARY PLUS
6. Match the words with the descriptions.
1. a large fast road where you don´t have to pay e a avenue
2. a wide road in a town or city with houses (and perhaps b b boulevard
stores) on either side
3. a street with lots of stores in the middle of a town f c cul-de-sac
4. a road that you have to pay to use l d freeway
5. a small street in the country (also the tracks between i e highway
lines on a freeway)
6. a wide street with, perhaps, trees on either side or a f main street
down the middle
 7. a street that has an entrance, but no exit c g one-way-street
8. a street where all the traffic has to go in one direction g h overpass
9. a big road which joins one town to another d i street
10. a road that crosses over another road, like a bridge h l toll road
7. Complete the quiz about roads in the US.

ROAD SAFETY QUIZ

Roads are sometimes dangerous places-
1. Why is the number of deaths and serious injuries greater in the US than in
other places?
The are main risk factors like driving while intoxicating, driving while talk
in the cell phone.
2. Who is most and least at risk in vehicle accidents: motorcyclists, bicyclists,
pedestrians, or people in cars?
In order fatalities from lest most people in cars, motorcycles, pedestrians,
bicyclist.
3. What percentage of vehicle-pedestrian accidents will prove fatal (=people
will die) if the car is traveling at…..
a) 25 mph b) 30 mph c) 55 mph
4. If a driver sees a pedestrian 100 feet away, what speed, if any, will they be
doing when they reach the pedestrian if they are traveling at…..
a) 25 mph? b) 40 mph?

8. Answer the questions.

1. What are the speed limits in your country? Are they too high? Too low?
The speed limits in my country are at a maximum average of 135 km / h
2. How bad are the traffic jams in cities in your country? What should or could be done about it?
It depends on the cities, at peak times the traffic is greater.
There is a measure to circulate, at peak times they circulate according to their license plate number to avoid
traffic.
3. How safe do you feel on the roads? Why? / Why not?
I'm not so sure, many car drivers don't respect traffic signals.
PEDESTRIAN
9. Make the things you can see in the photo.

1. Streetlights 9. sidewalk x
2. Underpass 10. curb x
3. Overpass 11. stoplights x
4. Highway 12. pedestrian mall
5. Freeway 13. driveway
6. Crosswalk x 14. four-way-stop
7. Intersection x 15. one-way street
8. walkway 16. stop sign

10. Match these mostly British English phrases with the American English phrases in the box

streetlights underpass
overpass
1. pavement sidewalk highway freeway
2. pedestrian crossing crosswalk crosswalk
intersection walkway
3. kerb curb sidewalk curb stoplights
pedestrian mall driveway
four-way-stop one-way street
stop sign

COLLOCATIONS
11. Complete the sentences with these words.

brighter foreseeable holds immediate in no uncertain

1. I´m going to stay in this job for the foreseeable future.

2. There´s no future in phone booth manufacture.
I think I´ll try and make something else.
3. After the accident, he faces an uncertain future.
Will he get back on the tennis court? Who knows what the future holds.
4. Things won´t get better in the inmediate future, but we are hoping for a
brighter
future in the long term – two or three years from now.