Exercise 5. Complete these sentences with a suitable word

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

1 There was a mechanical problem, and we ended up with a two-hour....

2 The flight was … because of the fog.

3 I went through passport control and sat in the departure …

4 If you have nothing to declare, you follow the green sign when you go through …

5 A woman at the check-in desk weighed my...

6 I looked for our flight number on the departures ….

Exercise 6. Here are some lines from conversations on different kinds of transport. Where does each conversation take place? Choose from the following: car, train, bus, plain, taxi, ferry, underground.

1. Excuse me, are we landing on time?

2. – Would you like to sit by the window? – No, I like the aisle seat better.

3. Can you take us to the British Museum, please?

4. No, no! He said turn left at the pub, not right!

5. – I’m hungry! – I'll get you something from the dining-carriage.

6. Which line is it for Oxford Circus?

7. Could you possibly tell me where to get off to get to Green Park?

Exercise 7. Find the definitions for the underlined words.

Sometimes buses are punctual, but not always. Where I live, buses should run every ten minutes, but sometimes I wait at the bus stop for half an hour in a queue, and then three buses come together, and they're all full up. Other times the bus is early and I miss it.

1. line of people

2. full of people

3. operate

4. don't catch it

5. arrive at the correct time

Exercise 8. Fill in the table.