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Travel, transport and holidays

Travel

A The seven words in the box have been used in the wrong order in the text. Write them in the

correct spaces, using the entries for travel

1

and travel

2

(including the Word Choice box) to help you.

travel

travelling

journey

trip

voyage

crossing

flight

I don't want to do any more crossing 1 ____________ this year. I've made five business journeys
2 ____________ to New York since January, which were very tiring because it's an eight hour travelling
3 ____________ from London’s Heathrow Airport. I also hate my travel 4 ____________ to the office every
day, because the traffic is so bad. I really want to spend my two weeks of holiday at home, but I know my wife
wants to voyage 5 ____________ abroad. I told her that I don't mind a short sea flight 6 ____________ to
France but I know that she wants to take a long trip 7 ____________ across the ocean to Australia!

Public transport

B Describe a journey on public transport by numbering these sentence parts in the correct order
from 1 to 10. (The first one has been done for you.) Look at the entries for bus, train and plane. Use

the Collocation boxes in the dictionary and the Phrase Bank on the CD-Rom to help you.

_____ the runway but as the plane was taking

_____ on and paid my bus

_____ I only had to wait a few minutes at the bus

_____ off I realised I'd left my suitcase in the bus

_____ stop before my bus arrived. I got

_____ station. Then I caught an express

_____ I was feeling good as the plane taxied along

_____ shelter. I was furious!

_____ fare to the train

_____ train to the airport.

Describing a car

C Rewrite this text in American English using the American English equivalents of the underlined
words. Use the illustration on page 219 of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English to

help you.

I'm OK after the accident, but my car isn't! The windscreen, 1 ____________ indicators 2 ____________
and number plate 3 ____________ were all broken, the bonnet 4 ____________ and the wing mirror
5 ____________ both need replacing and there's a big scratch all the way down one wing 6 ____________
And I think I've also lost the petrol cap 7 ____________!

D

Now try doing the ‘back of car’ and ‘front of car’ picture exercises on the CD-ROM.

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Travel and holiday collocations

E Make six collocations with the word holiday and four with the word travel by putting them together
with one of the words before or after them. Use the relevant entries on the CD-ROM to help you.

walking

holiday

destination

air

travel

home

national

agent

all-inclusive

romance

insurance

sickness

F Now use the collocations you have made to fill the gaps in the sentences.

1 They go to Hawaii every year because they've got a ____________ there.

2 He can get very cheap flights because he works as a ____________ .

3 The south coast of Spain is a popular ____________ .

4 They had to cancel their holiday but they got their money back because they had ____________ .

5 We're getting next Monday off work because it's a ____________ .

6 We won an ____________ to Florida. We won’t have to pay for anything!

7 They thought they had fallen in love forever, but it was just a ____________ .

8 She bought herself some strong boots for her ____________ .

9 She doesn't like ____________ but she has to fly a lot for her job.

10 He doesn't like going by car because he suffers from ____________ .

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Level:

Intermediate

Aim:

To practise students’ knowledge of vocabulary related to travel, transport and holidays

Timing: 30 - 40 minutes

Procedure:

A Ask the students to do the exercise using

the entries for travel

1

and travel

2

(including

the Word Choice box) on p1769-1770 or on the
CD-ROM of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary
English to help them.

Explain that travel

1

is the verb and travel

2

is the noun.

Try to get the students to use the context to identify
the part of speech (noun or verb) they should look in
to find their answers.

answers:

Answers 1-4, 6, and 7 can be found at the noun entry for travel (travel

2

)

1 travelling – The second example in the Word Choice box shows travelling in a similar context.

2 trips—Trip is used in the phrase business trip in the second example.

3 flight—Flight is in the Word Choice box.

4 journey—The second example of journey in the Word choice box is similar.

5 travel—Here students need the verb (travel

1

). Ask students to read the examples in sense 1. ‘Someday I'd

like to travel abroad’. shows the same collocation as the exercise question.

6 crossing—Crossing is used in connection with short trips in a boat. The explanation shown in the Word

Choice box says that it is a word ‘used for a fairly short sea journey’.

7 voyage—Voyage is used with longer trips made by boat. The example is similar to the question in the

exercise: ‘a voyage across the ocean’

B Students should put the sentence parts
into the correct order to tell the story, using

the CD-ROM Phrase Bank (in the upper right window)
and the Collocation boxes from the Longman Dictionary
of Contemporary English for the words bus, train and
plane to help them. The Collocation boxes can be
found on these pages: bus page 199, train page 1764,
and plane page 1248.

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answers:

1 I only had to wait a few minutes at the bus

2 stop before my bus arrived. I got

3 on and paid my bus

4 fare to the train

5 station. Then I caught the express

6 train to the airport.

7 I was feeling good as the plane taxied along

8 the runway but as the plane was taking

9 off I realised I'd left my case in the bus

10 shelter. I was furious!

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Bus stop and bus shelter can be found in the CD-
ROM’s Phrase Bank under Phrases from
other entries. They are compound words and
are listed as their own entries in the dictionary.
Students can click on bus shelter, for example,
and get the definition and often get extra example
sentences in Sentences from books,
newspapers, etc

Get on a bus and bus fare are in the
Collocations box at the bus entry.

Train station and express train can be found
in the Phrase Bank on the CD-ROM or as their
own entries in the dictionary.

Taxi along is shown in an example sentence in
the first sense of plane

1

.

Take off is shown in the collocations box at plane

1

.

C Students should refer to the colour illustration
on page 219 of the Longman Dictionary of

Contemporary English.

Talk about the purposes of the items in the picture,
e.g. “What are indicators used for?”

EXTRA: Ask students what these items are called in
their language.

answers: 1 windshield

2 turn signal

3 license plate

4 hood

5 side mirror

6 fender

7 gas cap

D This picture exercise (and others!) can be
found by clicking on the Exercises button

on the CD-ROM. Choose ‘Vocabulary’

from the list along the top. Scroll down
in the left-hand window to get to Picture

Exercises. Click on the arrow to see a menu of picture
exercises. Choose ‘back of car’ and ‘front of car’
from the list.

Students should use their mouse to drag the labels to
the correct places on the picture. Alternatively, they can
type the answer into the correct place. Tell them to use
the hint button to access definitions.

answers: The ‘check answers’ button under the
exercise will tell the student which labels are in the
wrong place. The ‘show answers’ button will show
the correct answers.

E Ask the students to write their collocations on
a separate sheet or in the margin. Make sure that

the students understand that they only need one word
from the lists before or after holiday and travel to make a
collocation. They can get help from the holiday and travel
entries in the CD-ROM, particularly from the Phrase
Banks.

EXTRA: Before they look at the entries, ask students to
make a list of other collocations using travel and holiday.

answers: walking holiday, all-inclusive holiday, national
holiday, holiday destination, holiday home, holiday
romance air travel, travel agent, travel sickness, travel
insurance

F Students should fill the gaps in the sentences with the
collocations they have just made. Clicking on the phrases
in the Phrase Bank will show definitions of the phrases.

EXTRA: Ask students to write about holidays they have
had or travelling they have done for homework. Encourage
them to use the collocations from this exercise.

answers: 1 holiday home

2 travel agent

3 holiday

destination

4 travel insurance

5 national holiday

6 all-inclusive holiday

7 holiday romance

8 walking

holiday

9 air travel

10 travel sickness

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read by clicking this button: