Unit 8: Exercise 1: Match The Words With The Pictures. Use The Words in The Box
Unit 8: Exercise 1: Match The Words With The Pictures. Use The Words in The Box
Unit 8: Exercise 1: Match The Words With The Pictures. Use The Words in The Box
Match the words with the pictures. Use the words in the box.
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Unit 8: Exercise 2
Complete the sentences. Use the verbs in the box.
Unit 8: Exercise 3
Ahmed, Ewa and Bik now live in the UK. Listen to information about their
journeys in the past and now. Choose True or False.
Ahmed is from Dubai, but he lives in London now. In Dubai, he lived with
his parents in an apartment near a big shopping mall. He was a student of
English at one of the big universities. His journey to his classes wasn’t
very long. He travelled for ten minutes by metro for three stops and then
walked for five minutes to the university. Now he works as an engineer in
Brighton. He goes to work on his bike. It only takes him 15 minutes.
Unit 8: Exercise 4
Put the words in the correct order to complete the sentences.
I often walk and sometimes go on my bike. No, I don’t. I haven’t got a car.
No, only about 15 minutes. Only three. Yes, it’s cheap and there’s a stop outside my
house. Yes, the railway station is only five minutes away.
Unit 8: Exercise 6
Change the underlined verbs to the correct form of the past simple.
3. I go to school by bike.
Unit 8: Exercise 7
Listen to Gina Timm talking about public transport where she lives. Choose the
correct answers.
Hello, my name is Gina Timm. I’m 23 years old and a student of English and
German. I live in a small village about five miles from a big town in north
Germany. There are lots of ways for me to get to town from my home. The town
has excellent tram, train and bus services, and I buy a cheap monthly ticket for
people under 26 years old. There’s also another special service called ‘taxi
buses’. We have a timetable for taxi buses, but it is important to phone half an
hour before the departure time to book a seat. You only need an ordinary bus play.MP3
ticket for a journey with a taxi bus, so it is not expensive. Actually, I don’t use
public transport very often except when the weather is bad. I usually go to
university by bike. In my town, cycling is the most popular type of transport with
students.
1. Gina lives in a
o big town.
o small town.
o small village.
o difficult.
o excellent.
o terrible.
o under 26.
o under 23.
o under 16.
o quite cheap.
o quite expensive.
o very expensive.
o bad.
o good.
o terrible.
o bus.
o bicycle.
o train.
Unit 8: Exercise 8
Complete the paragraph with the correct form of the present simple. Use the verbs in the box.
Hello, my name is Gina Timm. I ____________ 23 years old and a student of English and
German. I ________________ in a small village about five miles from a big town in north
Germany. There ____________ lots of ways for me to get to town from my home. The town
________________ excellent tram, train and bus services, and I ____________ a cheap
monthly ticket for people under 26 years old. There ____________ also another special
service called ‘taxi buses’. We _______________ a timetable for taxi buses, but it is
important to phone half an hour before the departure time to ______________ a seat. You
only _________________ an ordinary bus ticket for a journey with a taxi bus, so it is not
expensive. Actually, I don’t ________________ public transport very often except when
the weather is bad. I usually _________________ to university by bike. In my town,
cycling is the most popular type of transport with students.
Unit 8: Exercise 9
Choose the correct answers to the questions. Then listen and check your
answers.
Unit 8: Exercise 10
You are going to talk about the public transport in your town and a journey you
often make now or a journey you made in the past. Use the ideas below to help
you.
Record your answer. Try to speak for about a minute. Play to hear your answer.
Ideas
• Say what kinds of public transport there are in your town and how often you use them.