Getting around — Workbook

Complete each sentence with a word or phrase from the box: rush hour, traffic jam, diversion, roundabout, one-way street, go straight on.

1. Avoid the centre at ___ — the traffic is impossible between eight and nine.Show answer
2. There's a ___ on the bridge because of the works, so follow the yellow signs.Show answer
3. Take the second exit at the ___ and then turn right.Show answer
4. You can't drive up there — it's a ___ and you'd be going the wrong way.Show answer
5. We sat in a ___ for forty minutes and moved about two hundred metres.Show answer
6. ___ past the church and the station is on your left.Show answer

Correct, rewrite or complete each item. Focus on the target grammar of this lesson.

1. I take the bus to the work every morning.Show answer
2. She is best driver in my family.Show answer
3. We waited for hour at a station.Show answer
4. The life in a big city is expensive.Show answer
5. Write ONE sentence about your journey to work or school with 'the' and ONE with zero article.Show answer

Look back at the class-book reading. Answer briefly in your own words.

1. Why does the metro 'almost always win', according to the text?Show answer
2. What is the one situation the writer admits a car is better?Show answer
3. Which form of transport wins in your city? Why?Show answer

A visitor asks a local for directions to the Blue Museum. Follow the route on a mental map.

1. What is the final instruction?Show answer
2. Why does the local advise against the bus?Show answer
3. How long is the walk?Show answer

Write 70–100 words explaining how to get from your home to your favourite place in your city. Use at least FIVE articles correctly and three direction phrases.

Look back at your notes from class. Answer briefly.

1. Which part of this lesson do you already use naturally in English?Show answer
2. Which language point still feels difficult? Write ONE sentence you will practise this week.Show answer