2. How do people travel? Compare various means of transport. What is your favourite means of transport? Why?
3. How can you travel around Prague, London, New York?
4. Speak about the traffic in Prague, London and New York.
5. Describe your everyday journey to school.
6. Speak about planning a journey (a trip / a holiday in our country /
a holiday abroad).
7. Who can get a driving licence for a car and how? What is the main difference between driving in the Czech Republic and in Great Britain?
Ad 1)
People travel because they
• have to: they commute to work or school every day
• want to: they enjoy travelling, they want to learn about foreign countries and cultures, they want to meet new people, they want to explore exotic countries, etc.
Ad 2) POZOR: one means of transport – several means of transport (stejný tvar)
Use these words: comfortable, fast, slow, expensive, cheap, reliable, dangerous, safe, practical, romantic, crowded, full of people, empty, delay, be delayed, arrive on time, …
Speak about: walking, cars, trains coaches, planes, buses, trams, the underground, ferries, ships / boats, taxis
Ad 3)
Prague: You can walk or you can use Prague Integrated Transport. It consists of the underground called the Metro, trams, buses, trains and a funicular. You must have a valid ticket. You can buy several types of tickets. Travelling around Prague by public transport is (expensive / not expensive, comfortable, uncomfortable, the trams are crowded…)
London:
You can go by the underground (called The Tube). It´s the world´s oldest underground system consisting of 12 lines. You can take a bus, too. Earlier, the most typical London´s means of transport was the red double-decker: but it became part of history in 2005. You can go by the Docklands Light Railway. You can travel by boat or take a clipper ( a river-bus).
The typical London cabs are black.
New York:
The underground in New York is called The New York City Subway. It´s the world´s largest underground system with its 26 lines and many interchange stations. The most important problem of the Subway is its safety and security. Other means of public transport in New York are trains, buses, ferries and a special aerial tramway (lanovka). You can also take a taxi which is traditionally yellow.
Ad 4)
There are the same problems with traffic in all three cities.
There are lots of vehicles (cars, lorries / trucks, motorbikes etc.) in the streets: they produce exhaust fumes (výfukové plyny) and smoke and make a lot of noise. In the rush hours, there are traffic jams (in the morning and in the afternoon when the people go to and from work). There are often accidents and crashes in the streets.
Ad 5)
Use these phrases:
leave home at 7 o´clock
go to the (nearest) bus stop / tram stop / underground station / railway station
wait for the bus
get on the bus
go by bus No 188 (one-eight-eight nebo one-eighty-eight)
The bus is usually crowded.
change for the underground / change the trams
get off the bus at …
walk for about 300m as far as the school building
POZOR:
get on / off the bus, train, tram, coach
Ale: get in a car / get out of a car
Go by bus / train…
travel on a bus
in the bus = vevnitř: There were many students from our school in that bus.
Ad 6) Planning a journey / a trip / a holiday - answer these questions:
• Where will you go? (to the seaside, to the mountains,…)
• When and for how long will you go?
• How much money can you spend on it?
• Who will you go with?
• How will you travel and why? (means of transport)
• Will you organize your holiday yourself or will you ask a travel agency? Why?
• What kind of holidays will you go on? ( hiking / educational / active / climbing / rafting / camping / beach holidays)
• Where will you be accomodated and where will you eat?
(stay (bydlet) at a hotel, at a hostel, in a bed-and-breakfast, in a tent,
in a caravan, in a bungalow…)
• What would you like to do on your holidays?
• Which documents will you need? (a valid passport, in the EU countries a valid identity card, visa/s, the driving licence, proof of insurance)
• What will you pack into your luggage? (outfit and equipment, sleeping bag, good walking shoes, spare shoes, a waterproof / windproof jacket, a lifejacket, swimsuit / bathing costume (dámské plavky), trunks (pánské plavky), sunglasses, suntan lotion, a first-aid kit + the necessary medicaments, a travel guide, a road map,
a compass, binoculars, your mobile phone)
• What will you have to arrange for before you leave? (If going to exotic countries you need vaccination. You should get as much information as possible about your destination before you leave. You should tell somebody where you go and leave them your programme and some addresses for emergency situations.)
Ad 7)
You have to be 18 years old in order to get a driving licence for a car.
You have to attend driving school / you have to take driving lessons
You learn
• The Highway Code
• to drive
• to know how the car works
• to maintain the car
• to render first aid (poskytnout)
At the end of the course you do (take) a driving examination. You have to show that you know the rules and are able to drive safely.
You have to sit a driving theory test and a practical driving test. If you pass both tests, you will get your driving licence.
In the CR you drive on the right while in GB you drive on the left.
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