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Travelling: Types of Transport

This document provides information about different modes of transportation and useful travel vocabulary. It includes: 1) A chart comparing different types of transportation like trains, buses, taxis, planes, etc. 2) A list of useful travel words such as map, timetable, customs, luggage, and passport. 3) Examples of travel-related sentences and questions involving trains, planes, cars, and directions for taking transportation to a destination.

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Travelling: Types of Transport

This document provides information about different modes of transportation and useful travel vocabulary. It includes: 1) A chart comparing different types of transportation like trains, buses, taxis, planes, etc. 2) A list of useful travel words such as map, timetable, customs, luggage, and passport. 3) Examples of travel-related sentences and questions involving trains, planes, cars, and directions for taking transportation to a destination.

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32 Travelling

A Types of transport

train bus bicycle / bike taxi

car helicopter
(aero)plane

motorbike / motorcycle underground boat ship

B Useful travel words

map timetable customs luggage passport


Can I have a single / return (ticket) to Barcelona, please?
(single = Madrid to Barcelona; return = Madrid to Barcelona and back to Madrid)
I’d like to book / reserve a seat in advance [to make sure you have a seat].

Common mistakes
Was the journey long? [NOT Was the travel long?]

C By train
The train arriving at platform 3 is the 16:50 train to Paris.
The Edinburgh train departs / leaves from platform 6. (departs is formal)
Is there a restaurant car on this train?
A: Do I have to change trains for Toulouse? [get off one train and get onto another]
B: No, it’s a direct train.

D By plane
You have to check in two hours before the plane takes off [leaves the ground].
Online check-in is also possible. / You can check in online.
Give your boarding card to the flight attendant when you Common mistakes
get on the plane.
I went through customs but nobody
Have a good flight.
checked my passport [NOT controlled
The plane lands in New York at 14:30.
my passport].
After landing you have to go through customs.

E By car
We hired a car for a week. We had to fill it up with petrol.
Can I give you a lift? I’m going into town.
(See Unit 18: Holidays and Unit 49: Moving for more useful words about travelling.)
70 English Vocabulary in Use Elementary
Exercises
32.1 Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.
1 land a a place to eat on a train
2 direct b bags and suitcases
3 restaurant car c it says when trains depart and arrive
4 ship d you do not have to change to a different plane / train / bus
5 timetable e planes do this at airports
6 platform f it travels on water, e.g. the Titanic
7 luggage g where you stand when you are waiting for a train
32.2 Are these sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
1 A single ticket takes you to a place and back again. False. A return ticket takes you to a
place and back again.
2 At customs, people check what you bring into the country.
3 Planes land at the beginning of a journey.
4 You need a boarding card to get off a plane.
5 Hiring a car is the same as buying a car.
6 If you give someone a lift they travel in your car.

32.3 Here are directions from the airport to John’s house.


When you arrive at the airport, take a number 10 bus to the station. Then take a train to Bigtown. The journey takes half
an hour and you get off the train at the second stop. Take a taxi from the station to John’s house.
Now write directions from the train station to your house.

32.4 Look at the pictures and complete the crossword.


Across Down
3 1
1 2 3 4
t
i
5
6 2 m
6
e
t
7 3 a
7
b
l
8 4 8
e

Over to you
Make cards to test yourself. Write the word on one side of the card and a picture (or a definition or
translation) on the other side. Look at the pictures (or definitions or translations). Can you remember
the English words?

English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 71

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