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Vocabulary transport phrasal verbs with get
adjectives to describe transport time expressions holiday
accommodation
Grammar present perfect: affirmative present perfect: negative and
interrogative just, already, yet can for permission
Speaking talking about travel and living in a foreign country buying a
train ticket
Writing a postcard
bike
boat
/baIk/
/b@ut/
helicopter
lorry
motorbike
/helIkOt@r/
/'lO:ri/
/'m@ut@baIk/
taxi
/'t{ksi/
train
tram
/treIn/
/tr{m/
bus
/bVs/
plane
/pleIn/
underground train
/'Vnd@rgraund treIn/
car
coach
/kA:r/
/k@utS/
ship
scooter
/'sku:t@r/
/SIp/
van
/v{n/
bus
helicopter
coach
motorbike
scooter
boat
ship
taxi
train
underground train
car
lorry
tram
van
plane
bike
1 bus
/bVs/
2 coach
3 helicopter
/k@utS/
/helIkOt@r/
/'m@ut@baIk/
8 taxi
5 scooter
6 ship
7 boat
/'sku:t@r/
/SIp/
/b@ut/
9 train
/treIn/
13 tram
/tr{m/
10 car
/kA:r/
4 motorbike
/'t{ksi/
12 lorry
11 underground train
/'Vnd@rgraund treIn/
/'lO:ri/
14 plane
15 van
16 bike
/pleIn/
/v{n/
/baIk/
Put the transport from exercise 1 into the three groups: Land, Air and Sea.
taxi
bus
train
car
tram
coach
underground
lorry
train
motorbike
scooter
van
helicopter
plane
boat
ship
Look at the adjectives below. Put them into pairs with
opposite meanings.
cheap - expensive
convenient - inconvenient
fast - slow
comfortable - uncomfortable
dangerous - safe
Read the Look out! box. Then, in pairs, ask and answer questions about the
transport in exercise 1. Use the superlative form of the adjectives in exercise 4.
Listen to five people talk about how they go to and from school. Match each speaker (1-5)
with a sentence (A-F). There is one sentence that you do not need.
A This person walks home from school. _____
3
B This person’s mum gives her a lift home from school. ____
5
C This person takes an underground train and a bus. ____
D This person comes home from school by bus. ____
E This person sometimes cycles and sometimes walks. ____
F This person takes a tram. ____
2
_
4
1
1
I live quite near the school, so I usually go by bike. But when it’s
raining, it’s a bit dangerous to cycle. So when it’s raining, I walk.
2
My school is quite far away – about six kilometres – so it’s
difficult to walk or cycle there. But there’s a tram stop right
outside our block of flats, so I take the tram. My friend takes the
tram too, so that’s nice.
3
The school isn’t far from my house, but my mum leaves for work
at the same time as me so she usually gives me a lift. But she
finishes work late, so I go home on foot.
4
My school is in the centre of the city. In the morning, I walk to
the underground station and take an underground train into the
city. Then I have to catch a bus. It takes about 45 minutes in total.
5
I take the bus to school in the morning. My friends all go on the bus too. After school I walk to my mum’s office
– she works near the school – and she gives me a lift home.
Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.
Look at the picture. Then complete the sentences with the words below.
bus
dog
cyclists
car
Read the Learn this! box. Then complete the table below with the correct form of the present
perfect. Use the sentences in exercise 1 to help you.
Read the Learn this! box. Then complete the table below with the correct form of the present
perfect. Use the sentences in exercise 1 to help you.
’ve
’s
Read the Learn this! box. Then complete the table below with the correct form of the present
perfect. Use the sentences in exercise 1 to help you.
stopped
stopped
crashed
crashed
fell
fallen
ran
run
Write the past participles of the verbs. Check the irregular verbs in the list on page 141.
arrive – arrived
go
drink – drunk
lose – lost
eat
walk – walked
– eaten
finish – finished
– gone
write – written
Complete the sentences. Use the present perfect affirmative form of the verbs in exercise 4.
Use short forms of have / has.
’ve finished
1 I ____________
my homework, so I can go out now.
2 I ___________
a letter to grandad. Can you post it for me?
’ve written
3 He ________
his ticket. Now he can’t get on the train.
’s lost
4 I’m not feeling very well. I __________ six bottles of’ve
cola!
drunk
Complete the sentences. Use the present perfect affirmative form of the verbs in exercise 4.
Use short forms of have / has.
5 ‘Where’s Tania?’ ‘ She ___________ to the shops.’
’s gone
6 They _________
kilometres. They’re really tired.
’ve20run
7 She ___________home.
’s arrivedShe’s in the living room.
8 They ____________
a pizza. Now they aren’t hungry.
’ve eaten
Read the Learn this! box. Complete the sentences with just and the present perfect form of the
verbs in brackets.
’s just eaten
’s just cooked
’s just arrived
’s just bought
’s just got
Listen to six conversations. Number the situations in exercise 6 in the order you hear
them.
6
’s just eaten
3
’s just cooked
5
’s just arrived
2
’s just bought
4
’s just got
1