### Lesson 3. Let's Travel!

Getting ready for the task:

• How do you go to school?
• How long does it take you to travel to other cities/towns?

Key words:

a ferry - a boat that carries people/vehicles/goods
an airline - a company that provides regular flights
to carry - to support the weight of smb/smth and take them
a return ticket - a two way ticket/there and back

1

CW. Look and discuss these questions.

1. How do you get/go to school?
2. How long does it take you to go home?
3. How far is it from school to your house?
4. How far is it from your city to London?
2

GW. Make your own sentences. Use the table.

It takes It took It will take | me you him her Jane us them | 10 minutes an hour | to go to school to go to the bus station to go to work to make a campfire to clean the house to go to the countryside to get to the city centre

Remember!

A kilometre is a distance measure.
A kilometre is a thousand metres/meters.
In England a distance measure is a mile.
A mile is 1,609 meters/metres.
So there are 1,609 meters in a mile

Do You Know?...

How many meters/ kilometers are there in a mile?

3

GW. Write questions for answers.

Sample: How does Alice get to Moscow? - She flies there by plane.
1. __________? Emily gets to school by bicycle.
2. __________? Mother always goes to the shop by taxi.
3. __________? We can take a ferry.
4. __________? It took us 3 hours to fly to Paris.
5. __________? It takes the boys 20 minutes to go to the playground.
LISTEN AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS!
Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   A) travelling by train
   B) the fastest way to get to Azerbaijan
   C) the price of the train tickets
   D) taking part in the conference
   E) the fastest way to get to England
2. Choose the correct information according to the passage.
   A) The conference is on Monday.
   B) He has to choose the slowest way to go to England.
   C) It takes five days to get to England by plane.
   D) The ticket is a hundred and fifty manats.
   E) He is taking part in a conference.
3. Answer the question according to the passage.
   When are the tickets actually more expensive?
   A) in summer time
   B) in autumn time
   C) in winter time
   D) in spring time
   E) in autumn and winter times
4. Complete the sentence according to the passage.
   You can’t get … straight from Baku to London.
5. Answer the question according to the passage.
   Why isn’t it a good idea to go to England by train?