Listening N° 2: Travelling

Name: ________________________________________________Class:________Date: ___________

Class objective: To identify key expression in oral texts and to interact in real conversations using connectors
and past tense.

I. COMPLETE the sentences with words from the box.

Ticket – get- heads or tails – stop - platform

a) I don't have enough money to buy a _____________.

b) Let's get off at the next ____________.
c) You can wait on that _____________.
d) I couldn't make ______________ of his explanation on how to get to the library.
e) I didn't ____________ what the man said, but I think he said something about the schedule

What do you think you are

going to listen to?
Where do you think the
situation is going to happen?

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II. LISTEN to the text and IDENTIFY the speakers.

(Taken from: https://www.esl-lab.com/trainnew/index.htm#vocab)

a) Who are the speakers in the recording?

b) Where are they talking?

c) What are they talking about?

III. LISTEN and WRITE an F if the statement is false and a T if the information is true. JUSTIFY the false
information.

a) ______The man is going to the art museum.

b) ______ The train ride is a dollar fifty.

c) ______The man should get on the train at platform 3.

d) ______The train comes about every six minutes.

e) ______The man should get off of the train at the Seventh Station.

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V. ANSWER the question.

a) What was the man problem?

b) Did you solve it?

IV. TALK with your classmate about a similar situation you have lived. ORGANIZE your ideas using
connectors and tell your story using the PAST SIMPLE tense.

Verbs in past examples

a. Play – Played
Example.
b. Cook - Cooked
First I went to the bus stop
c. Ride – Rode

d. Watch - Watched
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First I ______________________
Connectors
Then I _____________________
a) First
Next I _____________________
b)Then
Finally I ___________________
c) Next

d) Finally.