Safer motoring in Japan, Running out of road, Keeping cars off the roads
3. Highlight any words or phrases in the article which you’d like to remember, & which you’d like to use yourself.
4. Answer these questions.
¨ Which of the ideas in the article do you think is the best ?
¨ Which ideas would work & not work in your country ?
¨ Speaking as a pedestrian or cyclist, what changes would you like to see to traffic management in your city or town ?
5. Work in pairs. What other words or phrases could you use in place of get in these sentences?
1. How many cards did you get for your birthday?
2. He got really upset when I told him he’d got to walk .
3. When I got home I realised I hadn’t got my wallet with me.
4. You have to get your ticket before you get the train.
6. Fill the gaps in the sentences below with suitable forms of these phrases.
Get better, get dark, get an expert to , get a headache, get lost, get ready, get rid of, get the joke, get the sack, get to sleep, get started, get into trouble.
1. I still haven’t got rid of my cold.
2. I hope you soon ...
3. Right, everyone’s here, so let’s ...
4. I sometimes ... if I’ve been studying too long.
5. We ought to go home, it’s ...
6. He didn’t laugh because he didn’t ...
7. I need plenty of time to ... before I go out.
8. If you haven’t got a ticket, you’ll ... if an inspector gets on the bus.
9. I was so excited that I couldn’t ...
10. If you can’t do it yourself, you’ll have to ... do it for you.
11. She ... because her work was unsatisfactory.
12. Ask someone for directions if you ...
7. Fill the gaps in the sentences below with suitable forms of these phrasal verbs & verb+ prepositions.
Get (a)round, get (a)round to, get at, get down, get off, get on with, get on with, get on with, get out of, get over, get through, get together.
1. Please get on with your work - I didn’t mean to interrupt you.
2. They managed to ... doing the work by pretending to be busy.
3. I tried to explain what he’d done wrong but he didn’t seem to see what I was ...
4. He got very upset about failing his driving test, but he soon ... it.
5. However difficult a problem is , there’s usually a way to ... it.
6. ... the bus when you get to the stop by the railway station.
7. How are you ... this exercise?
8. She doesn’t ... her younger brother, they’re always quarrelling.
9. I hope I’ll be able to ... answering the letters this evening.
10. I’ve tried ringing her several times, but I haven’t been able to ...
11. They decided to ... later in the week for an informal meeting.
12. This dull weather is so depressing - it’s ... me...
II. 1. Complete the following text with words from the box. Use your dictionary to help you.
windscreen, brake, clutch, overtake, indicate, petrol, traffic jam, slow down, accelerator, licence, gear, flash, reverse, horn, run over, steering wheel.
Believe me, learning to drive is a terrifying experience. A couple of weeks ago I got my provisional driving .... & had my first lesson. The thing I found difficult was that you have to concentrate on everything at once. With one hand you are expected to put the car into ... while your left foot is on the ... At the same time, the other hand has to hold on to the ... & try to keep the car on the road. To get the car to move, whether forwards or in ..., you have to press the ... with right foot. When you want the car to come to a halt you have to take that foot off & press the ... down hard- well not too hard or your instructor disappears through the ... .
The first day out on the road was a disaster. When I got to the pedestrian crossing I forgot to ... & thought I was going to ... a little old man who was trying to sross the road. Of course my instructor, who by this time was rather irritated, screamed. Later on there was a van going incredibly slowly so I started to ... to let the car behind me know that I was going to ... . Well, you have never seen such a fuss. A car coming the other way started to sound its ... & ... its lights. How was I to know that up ahead there was a three mile ... because some car had run out of ... & stopped the middle of the road?
2. What do you associate with each of the following forms of transport:
a train, a bus, a plane, a ship, a car.
E.g. : country, speed, luxury, expense, pleasure.
3. Link the words in the box with the forms of transport in Ex. 2
E.g. crew: ship, aeroplane, bus.
Crew, driver, runway, commuter, guard, aisle, filling station, compartment, dining car, voyage, platform, cabin, windscreen, captain, departure lounge, ticket office boarding pass, pilot.
4. Which forms of transport do you use with each of these verbs?
E.g. : get on: train , boat.
Get on, get into, land, dock, get out of, get off, park, take off, board