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62 Transport

Vehicles

Vehicle is the genera! word for
all types of road transport.
Ferree : And the others?
: How did you get here?
I came by bus.
Sue and John came by car.
: And Paul?
He missed the bus, so he
had to take a taxi.

Catch a bus, take a taxi
Bus Train Plane Taxi Bicycle Car
driver driver pilot driver cyclist driver
drives drives flies drives rides drives
(£) fare fare air fare fare - -
catch/take — catch/take take take goon (my) go by
get on/off get on/off get on/off get in/out get on/off get in/out
bus station railway station airport taxirank —- -

Railway stations
You may hear these announcements.
The train now arriving at platform 3
is the 8.48 to London Paddington,
calling at Swindon and Reading.
Passengers for Didcot change (=
change trains) at Swindon.
We apologise to passengers for the
late arrival of the 8.52 to Oxford.
This train will now arrive at platform
6 in approximately 20 minutes.
The next train due to (= timetabled
to} arrive at platform 4 is the 9.06 to
Birmingham.

Buses
Sometimes buses are not very punctual (= they don’t arrive at the correct time). Where I live
buses should run (= come) every ten minutes, but sometimes I wait at the bus stop for half
an hour with a long queue (AmEng = line) of people, and then three buses come together,

and they’re all full up (= full of people, and no more people can get on). On other occasions
the bus is early and I miss it (= I don’t catch it. NOT Hestthe-bus-).

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