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.