Wider World 1. Unit 9.

1 Complete the means of transport below.

автобус

1 Complete the means of transport below.

таксі

1 Complete the means of transport below.

велосипед

Can you _______ a car?

When did you learn how to ______________ a bike?

We sometimes have to ______________ for a long time for a bus.

My dad ______________ our car in front of our house every evening.

My mum sometimes travels ______________ train to see her friends.

My grandad’s quite old and finds it hard to get ______________ and out of our car.

Complete the text using only ONE word in each gap.

The transport in the city where I live is very good. It’s best to go 1 ______    _______ bus to most places in the city. There’s a big bus 2 ___         __________ in the city centre. You can get buses to many places from there. I study at the university so I take a bus there every weekday. Some of my classmates 3 __      ___________ a bike there, but I don’t have a bike. Anyway, there’s a bus 4 ________      _____ just outside the university so I can 5 _____     ________ off the bus there and walk to my first lesson – it’s very easy. I have a car too, but there aren’t any car 6 _________       ____ near the university that students can use so the bus is much easier. The city isn’t big enough to have an 7 _____            ________, but maybe one day we can have one here, like the Metro in Paris – I love going on that.

I can’t see anything out of the window – it’s really ____.

I usually go to school on ____.

I usually find lying on a beach ____ really boring.

getting / a / Edinburgh / We’re / train / tomorrow / . / to

station / taxi / taking / aren’t / a / We / the / to / .

are / time / leaving / What / ? / house / you / your

Complete the dialogue using the correct form of going to with the verb in brackets or short answers.

Leo: 0 Are you going to buy (buy) a new car, Dad? This one’s so old! Dad: No, I 1 ____        ____, at least not today! 2                    __________________________ (wait) until we really need a new one. Leo: 3 ____                    ______________________ (go) on holiday in this one? Dad: Yes, we 4 ____     ____. We 5 __________________                    ________ (visit) Auntie Hannah and Uncle Steve. Leo: How long 6 _____                      _____________________ (stay) with them? Dad: A week, then we 7 ______________                    ____________ (drive) to the seaside and spend a week there. Leo: So we 8 __                      ________________________ (not fly) to Spain for a week! Dad, you promised! Dad: I know, but it’s too expensive to go to Spain