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1) Do you have a driver's license?
2) Do you drive a car often?
3) Have you ever got a parking ticket?
4) Are there speed limits in your country? If so, what is the average speed limit?
5) Do you always wear a seat belt?
6) Have you ever been in a traffic accident?
7) Have you ever been stopped for speeding?
8) How much does gasoline cost in your country?
9) Is parking a problem in your country?
10) What are the most annoying bad driving habits of other drivers in your country (/or this country /or compared to this country)?
Pair 3
1) What kind of transportation do you use most often?
2) Do you have good public transportation where you live?
3) If public transportation were free, would you use it more?
4) Do you think that your city government maintains the public transportation well?
5) What do you think is the most dangerous form of transportation? Why?
6) What do you think is the safest form of transportation? Why?
7) Do you feel safe when you use public transportation?
8) Do you feel safe going into the subway/metro/underground at all hours?
9) Do you sometimes take a taxi (cab)?
10) How do you "call" a taxi in your country from the side of the road? (ex. raise your hand in the air, etc.)
a. Is it expensive to take a taxi in your country?
b. Are there seat-belts in the taxis?
c. Is it common to give the cab driver a tip? If so, about how much do you give?
d. Does the cab driver open the door for you, or do you open it yourself?
e. Is it more appropriate to sit in the front or back of the taxi?
Pair 4
1) How many times have you traveled by airplane?
2) What do you usually do when riding a train or bus?
3) What is your favorite kind of car? Why?
4) What's your favorite color for a car?
5) What's the most readily available form of public transportation where you live?
6) What's your favorite form of transportation?
7) Would you like to go on a cruise? Why or why not?
8) How do you think countries can reduce congestion on the roads?
9) Is there any environmentally-friendly transportation in your area?
10) Do you think that we ought to be obligated to drive electrical and solar powered vehicles?
2. Read and translate the text “Means of Transport”:
People use various means of communication to get from one place to another.
In the old days people had to travel several days, weeks and months to get to the place they needed. They either went on foot, by coaches driven by horses or on horseback or by boats and ships. Then trains, trams, cars, buses, airplanes, underground and other means appeared.
Transport has always played an important role in people’s life. Modern transportation system is rather well developed thanks to rapid scientific and technological progress. There are lots of buses, mini-vans, taxis, personal cars, bicycles, trains, airplanes, even ships and ferries in every developed country.
However, a couple of centuries ago, there were only carts carried by horses and old-fashioned boats. Perhaps, the oldest type of transport is the water one. People constructed primitive boats for river navigation since the stone ages.
The first land transport was presented by the carriages, which were later carried by domestic animals. The first animal-drawn vehicles were traced in Europe in the 4th millennium BC.
Rail transport appeared much later, to be precise nearly 500 years ago. Modern railroad was introduced in the 19th century England.
Aviation had several forms throughout the history. If we speak about the kites, they appeared in ancient China around before 200 BC. Then, there were the hot air balloons invented in the 18th century. The first aircraft flight was made by the Wright brothers at the very beginning of the 20th century. Perhaps, the discoveries made in the field of transportation in the 20th century were the most important. Thus, in 1961 the first human spaceflight was launched. In 1969, the first astronaut stepped on the Moon. Nobody knows exactly where else is scientific progress taking us, but it’s most likely that soon we will travel by spaceships more often.
3. Rearrange the text “Transport in London” in correct order:
1) Londoners use cars. You can see a lot of cars in London streets.
2) The interesting thing is that some of the routes are the same as many years ago. London's buses are double-decked buses.
3) Do you know what means of communication Londoners use? Londoners use the underground railway.
4) Londoners do not use trams, though London was the first city where trams appeared. And now it is one of the biggest cities in the world where there are no trams. The last tram left the streets of London many years ago.
5) People who live in big cities use various means of communication to get from one place to another.
6) They call it 'the tube'. London's underground is the oldest in the world. It was opened in 1863.
7) When Londoners leave the town, they use trains, ships or airplanes.
8) Londoners use buses. The first bus route was opened in London in 1904. Today there are hundreds of routes there.
4. Scan reading. Find answers to the following questions as quickly as possible:
1) How many airports are there around London?
2) What is the fastest way of traveling between industrial centers?
3) What goods were carried by inland waterways?
4) What is the length of the tube?
5) Do the British still use canals?
6) What is Southampton?
