postgraduate english listening and speaking unit 6 travel

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking

Unit 6 Travel

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Contents

Warm up1

Part I2

Part II3

Part III4



Warm up

Brainstorming: Means of Transport

What’s your favorite means of transport and why?



Warm up

Means of Transport

Plane

Bus Car

Cab/Taxi

Train

Subway

Coach

Ship Boat

Bicycle

motercycle

Tricycle



Part I Section A

Dialogue 2 Where is the platform for York? The train now standing at platform 1 is for

Leeds.

Dialogue 3 Pharmacy: a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold.



Part I Section A

Stick out your hand. Stick out: to be further out than something

else or come through a hole; to push something further out than something else or through a hole

His ears stick out. Don't stick your arm out of the car window.



Part I: Section A

Dialogue 4

I’d like to enquire about flights to Paris.

ask, inquire



Part I: Section A

Dialogue 5 I’ve just received my invoice for my trip to

Mombasa.

If you look at the brochure, you’ll see that they charge a supplement for a single cabin.

an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered; 发票

a port city in southern Kenya

[’brəuʃuə] a small book; booklet

small room on a ship or boat where people sleep



Part I: Section A

Dialogue 6

This compartment’s crowded. In the tube

【美】卧车包房；【英】（客车车厢内设有面对面坐位的）隔间

subway, underground



Part I: Section A

Piccadilly is a famous/major street in central London, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus ( 圆形广场） in the east



Part I: Section A

Keys: Exercise 1

Dialogue Type of Transport Destination

2 Train York

3 Taxi /Cab Nearest pharmacy

4 Plane Paris

5 ship Mombasa

6 Tube/subway/undergound Piccadilly



Part I: Section B

New words: Announcement 1

at 12:00 hours: at twelve hundred hours the 19.00 train: the nineteen hundred train

boarding card/pass 登机牌

refreshment: snacks and drinks served as a light meal 茶点



Part I: Section B

proceed [prə’si:d; proʊ’si:d]: go on; (formal) to move or travel in a particular direction

We still want to proceed with the sale. Passengers for Rome should proceed to Gate

32 for boarding.

block capitals:印刷体大写字母



Part I: Section B

Announcement 2

We are now cruising at an altitude of 36,000 feet.

You are all on a block visa.

E.g. (British English) The theatre gives discounts for block bookings (= a

large number of tickets bought at the same time).

[’æltitju:d] height

[kru:z] to travel at a steady speed

a quantity of something or an amount of time that is considered as a single unit （东西的）一批；一组



Part I: Section B

take-off n. the moment at which an aircraft leaves the ground and starts to fly Opposite landing

Your chief steward will tell you about landing-card formalities.

E.G. to go through all the formalities necessary in order to get a gun licence

fortnight n. two weeks

[C, usu. pl.] a thing that you must do as a formal or official

part of a legal process, a social situation, etc. 正式手续

[’stjuəd] an attendant on an airplane

landing card n. 登陆卡 ; 登陆证



Part I: Section B

Announcement 4

buffet: 英 [’bʌfit] 美 [bə’fe] n. a meal set out on a buffet (counter) at which guests help themselves

E.G. the buffet car

industrial action: action that workers take, especially stopping work, to protest to their employers about something （罢工、怠工等）劳工行动

lager [’lɑ:ɡə] n. a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast



Keys to Section B

Announcement 1 New York, BA701, 10.30, Delayed till 12.00 Announcement 2 BA989, 0437L, 14 days Announcement 3 York, 19.00, platform 4, Cancelled York, 20.00, platform 6, Departure time: 21.00 Announcement 4 22.00 to 23.30 Tea, Coffe, Cold sandwiches



Part II Oral Practice

Exercise 1 (2) : You arrive at John F. Ennedy Airport in NY an

hour ago on flight CA167 from Bj. Your luggage has not arrived. You go to the “Baggage Claims” desk and ask about your luggage.



For reference

A: Excuse me. I’ve waited more than one hour for my luggage/ baggage

B: If you want to make a claim for lost luggage, you’ll have to fill in this form. It won’t take a minute. Do you mind if I ask you some questions? Then you’ll just have to sign the form.

A: Not at all. Please do. B: OK. May I ask for your full name, sir? /What’s your name please?

A:… B: Thank you, sir. And where have you flown in from? A: … B: The flight number? A: … B: What did you luggage look like? A: … B: How can I contact you in …? A: … B: Do you have a contact phone number? A: … B: Thank you. We’ll contact you as soon as …. Oh yes. One more

thing. Your signature, please. Just here…. Thank you.

postgraduate english listening and speaking unit 6 travel

Documents

postgraduate english

travel slide

british english

underground slide

light meal slide

section b announcement

section b new words

favorite means of transport