VIII. Make questions with the phrases below about your native city. Use the superlative form of the adjectives. Make two more questions of your own.
Pattern: What's the best place to go shopping for clothes?
1. good place to go shopping for clothes?
2. interesting monument?
3. dangerous part of the city?
4. nice park?
5. bad time of year to visit the city?
6. important festivals in the city?
Directions
I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
over - над
along – вдоль
across – через
up – вверх
down - вниз
into – внутрь
out of – из
round - вокруг
onto – начто-либо
through – сквозь
from ... to – из…в
bridge – мост
hedge – кустарник
straight – прямо
turning – поворот
crossroad – перекресток
traffic lights – светофор
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We use prepositions of movement to show the direction in which somebody or something is moving. These include: over, along, across, up, down, into, out of, round, onto, through and from ... to... . Note: When we talk about a means of transport, we use the preposition by. e.g. by car / bus / train / taxi / plane / boat BUT: on foot |
II. Fill in the gaps with up, into, through, round, onto, from...To, over or down.
1. The dog is jumping ... the table.
2. The postman has just gone ... the corner
3. How far is it ... your house ... the post office?
4. The train is going ... the tunnel.
5. The plane is flying ... the village.
6. Look! That man has climbed ...the ladder.
7. Tears are running..............his face.
8. Come.............the house and get warm.
III. Look at the pictures and speak about Robert`s driving lesson. Put a preposition from the box into each gap.
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along down into out of over past through under up |
Robert's driving lesson
Robert drove ___the garage, ___the road, and ___ the bridge.
Then he drove ___ the pub, ___ the hill, and ___the hill.
Next he drove ___the river, ___ the hedge, and ___the lake!
IV. Underline the correct word(s).
1. You must go up/across/into the bridge to get to school.
2. Put the cake into/out of/through the oven.
3. The motorbike is going down/onto/through the tunnel.
4. The children ran onto/out of/over the classrooms when the bell rang.
5. I go to school on/by/onto foot.
6. The pop singer is ready to sing. He is coming through/over/onto the stage.
7. The child is running through/over/across the road.
8. The cat has jumped down/onto/across the car.
9. You must always take off your shoes when you come into/ down/ round the house,
10. He goes to work by/on/into bus every day.
V. Follow the directions on the map and write down the name of the place. Try to guess where the woman wants to go.
Walk straight on the end of the road. Then turn right. Take the second turning on the left. Go down the road till you come to a crossroad. Turn right. Then turn right again at the traffic lights. Go down the road until you come to a park. Then turn left. Keep straight on for about two hundred metres and it`s on your right.
Transport
I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
subway/ underground – метро
hot air balloon – воздушныйшар
fast – быстрый
slow – медленный
ride a bicycle – ездить на велосипеде
wait for – ждать
get on a train – садитьсянапоезд
get off a train – сходитьспоезда
crowd – толпа
magnetic Levitation train - поезд на магнитной подвеске
city traffic - движение городского транспорта
queue – очередь
II. Put these types of transport in order from fast to slow.
a boat a train a tram an underground train
an airplane a ship a scooter a motorbike
a taxi a bicycle a ferry a hot air balloon
III. Read the text. Can you guess which numbers go in the gaps?
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1,000,000 (one million) 100,000,000 (one hundred million) 5 8 740 500,000 (five hundred thousand) 77,000,000 9,000,000 59 3 |
Transport facts!
1. People in most countries drive on the right - but people drive on the left in (a) ___ countries, including Japan, India, Australia and Britain.
2. In the USA (b) ___ people in every thousand drive car. In Japan, it's 640 and in Germanуit`s 570. More than (c) ___ people in the world ride a bicycle!
3. In Tokyo people never wait for more than (d) ___ minutes for an underground train. The only problem is it's often difficult to get on or off a train because they're sоcrowded!
(c) ___ people fly to Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta, USA every year! (That's about one hundred end fifty people every minute!)
4. In Chinа, the 30 km journey from Shanghai city centre to Pudeng Airport takes only f) ___ minutes on the new Magnetic Levitation (Маg Lev) train.
5. Most people in Moscow go to work by underground. The Moscow Metro has 165 stations and about (g) ___ passengers every day. The stations in the city centre are very beautiful.
6. Every day more than (h) ___ people travel into the centre of London. About 20% drive, 77% take the train or the bus, and only (i) ___ % walk to work!
7. In Italy, a country of 57 million people. 8 million people have scooters. In Rome, (j) ___ people ride scooters so they can travel fast in the city traffic.