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1) Excuse me, I’ve lost my way. I’m trying to go to … Which is the right way to …? Please, show me the way to … Am I on the right way (road) to …?
2) How far is it? Is it possible to walk there? Is there a bus from here to …? Is it much of a walk?
3) You are going in the opposite direction. Go back to the end of the street, then turn left, go two blocks straight ahead and take the second turning to the right.
4) How, where is it you want to go? It’s a long (short) way to … It’s quite a distance from here.
5) Be careful, the traffic keeps to the left in this country. Look out. It isn’t safe to cross here. One can never be too careful. Wait for the break in the traffic. Don’t cross the street when the traffic light has changed to red.
Задание 4. Порядок выполнения задания. Прочитайте диалог по ролям и ответьте на вопрос в конце как можно полнее.
Act out the dialogues and answer the questions that follow as fully as possible.
Finding the Way
- Oh, hello, Brian. Pleased to meet you. Did you have a good day today?
- Not bad, but I’ve got lost this morning.
- How?
- Well, I got up, had breakfast and went to the tube station as usual, but the station was closed, so I decided to take a taxi. I waited and waited and as there so there were no taxis around I started to walk but got lost …
- Oh, no. What did you do?
- Well, I tried to ask the way but everyone I met was a foreigner. It was terrible.
- Nobody understood me.
- So what happened?
- I walked round and suddenly I saw a sign for the Haymarket. The school is not far from there so I followed the sign and arrived just over an hour later.
- What a pity.
- How did Brian lose his way?
Taking a Bus
- Does bus 4 go to the railway station?
- You’d better take bus 51 from the University.
- Can you tell me where to get off?
- Yes, it’s quite away, yet, but I’ll tell you in good time.
- Is bus 4 going the wrong way?
- No, but it’s on the half way from the railway station and you’ll have either to walk or to change the bus at the History Museum.
- How much further is the railway station?
- I suppose it’s in ten minutes’ walk. It’s two stops after the History Museum.
- Why did the stranger ask about the route of bus 4?
