Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Unit 6 Travel

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Contents Warm up 1 Part I 2 Part II 3 Part III 4

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Warm up  Brainstorming: Means of Transport  What’s your favorite means of transport and why?

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Warm up Means of Transport Plane Bus Car Cab/Taxi Train Subway Coach Ship Boat Bicycle motercycle Tricycle

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking 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.

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking 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.

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Part I: Section A  Dialogue 4  I’d like to enquire about flights to Paris. ask, inquire

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking 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 [’brəu ʃ uə] a small book; booklet small room on a ship or boat where people sleep

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking 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

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking 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 eastcentral LondonHyde Park CornerPiccadilly Circus

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Part I: Section A  Keys: Exercise 1 DialogueType of TransportDestination 2TrainYork 3Taxi /CabNearest pharmacy 4PlaneParis 5shipMombasa 6Tube/subway/undergoundPiccadilly

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Part I: Section B  New words:  Announcement 1  at 12:00 hours: at twelve hundred hours  the train: the nineteen hundred train  boarding card/pass 登机牌  refreshment:  snacks and drinks served as a light meal 茶点

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Part I: Section B  proceed [prə’si:d; pro ʊ ’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

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking 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

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Part I: Section B  take-off n. the moment at which an aircraft leaves the ground and starts to fly Opposite landinglanding  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

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Part I: Section B  Announcement 4  buffet: 英 [’b ʌ fit] 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 [’l ɑ : ɡ ə] n. a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Keys to Section B  Announcement 1  New York, BA701, 10.30, Delayed till  Announcement 2  BA989, 0437L, 14 days  Announcement 3  York, 19.00, platform 4, Cancelled  York, 20.00, platform 6, Departure time:  Announcement 4  to Tea, Coffe, Cold sandwiches

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking 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.

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking 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.

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