Read and translate these phrases. Use them in your dialogues.

1. Could you tell me the best way to… ?

2. Excuse me, is there a bus to…?

3. How do I get to…?

4. How can I get to… ?

5. Which is the nearest way to …?

6. Is this the right way to… ?

7. Where is the…?

8. How long would it take me to get to …?

9. Are you going my way?

10. Which way should we go?

11. Go down … street then cross the square and you’ll be right there.

12. Any bus will take you.

13. There is a bus stop over there.

14. Where can I change bus 31?

15. Bus 21 takes you right there.

16. This is where you get off.

17. I think the way from here is to walk.

 

5. Look at your books and remake the dialogues using the words in the brackets:

PICCADILLY CIRCUS

Peter: Right, we're at the end of the Mall now. If we take the ___ left and go __ the steps into Waterloo Place, Regent Street and Piccadilly Circus will __ straight ahead.

Jason: This road seems really quiet.

Peter: Today is a Sunday, so it's closed to traffic. Can you __ Piccadilly Circus in the distance, Jason?

Jason: Oh, yeah. What's that ___ on top of those steps?

Peter: That's the famous statue of Eros, the ___ of love, holding his bow and arrow.

Jason: He seems to be very ___. There are so many people taking photographs in front of him.

Peter: Will you take a couple of shots of me, Jason?

Jason: Sure, Pete. Let's have a big smile... for the god of love.

Peter: Thanks a lot, Jason. We'll sit here for a while and then ___ ___to the Houses of Parliament.

Jason: Sounds good to me.

(next, up, be, see, monument, god, popular, head off)

 

THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

Peter: Look, Jason, on your ___ is Westminster Bridge, and ____ ___ are the Houses of Parliament. They are famous London landmarks.

Jason:Hey, that's Big Ben, isn't it?

Peter: That's right, the most famous ___ in the world.

Student:Excuse me, could you tell us how to ___ ___ Westminster Abbey?

Peter: Of course, looking ___ my map, you need to go down St. Margaret Street for about 400 metres and it will be on your ___.

Student: Thank you. This is our first ___ to London. It's a great city.

Jason: Where are you from, girls?

Student: Oh, we're English language students from Spain, from Madrid.

Jason: Well, have a great vacation.

Student: Thanks, we will. Good bye!

(left, straight ahead, monument, get to, at, right, trip )

6. Listen to the conversation and fill in the gaps:

Mark: Excuse me, I'm lost. Could you help me?

Pedestrian: Of ....... where .......... to?

Mark: I'm looking for the Park Hotel.

Pedestrian: Oh ...... take the .......... right.

Mark: So I take the first left and then the first right.

Pedestrian: Yes, the hotel's just ....... You can't ...

Mark: Thanks very much. Bye.

 

AT THE POST-OFFICE

Read and translate the text:

At the post office

If you want to buy stamps, postcards, envelopes, to send a telegram or money order, to subscribe to newspapers or magazines, you have to go to the post-office.

At some post-offices there is a special window where you may pay your rent, telephone, gas and electricity bills.

Yesterday I had to send a parcel to my friend in another city. So I went to the nearest post-office. I handed the package to the clerk at the window marked "Parcel Post." She weighed it and I paid for the stamps which she stuck on the package.

Then I went to the next window marked "Stamps." I had to queue up there. When my turn came, I bought writing paper, envelopes and a few stamps. I sat down at a desk and wrote a letter. When the letter, was ready, I wrote the address on the envelope, stuck a stamp on it and drop­ped it into the nearest letter-box.

 

Read and render the dialogue:

Сustоmer: I want to send this parcel to Kiev. How much will it cost?

Clerk: I shall weigh it and tell you how much to pay.

Сustоmer:All right.

Clerk: One rouble.

Сustоmer:Now give me three envelopes, five postcards and three four-copeck stamps, please.

Clerk: That makes one ghryvnya and forty-seven copecks in all.

Customer: Here you are, thank you.

Study the vocabulary:

· post-office - пошта

· stamp - марка

· money order - переказ грошей поштою

· postcard - поштовая листівка

· envelope - конверт

· subscribe to a newspaper, magazine - підписатись на газету, журнал

· rent - плата за квартиру

· bill - рахунок

· parcel - посилка

· tо weigh - взважувати

· to queue up - стояти в черзі

· turn - черга

· writing paper - папір для листів

· address - адреса

· to stick (stuck, stuck) - приклеювати, наклеювати

· to post - відправляти поштою

· to drop - опустити, кинути в поштову скриньку

· letter-box - поштова скринька

· customer - покупець, клієнт

· clerk - конторский службовець, клерк

· to cost (cost, cost) - коштувати

· to send by parcel post - відправляти посилкою

· copeck - копійка

· ghryvnya - гривня

· in all - разом

· Here you are! - Будь ласка.