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English Vocabulary for Transport Verbs

The document provides information about different modes of transportation and verbs used to describe travel. It discusses: 1) Verbs used to describe how people moved in the past such as walked, ran, jumped, danced, swam, climbed, fell. 2) Common verbs used to describe transportation including go by, take, ride, drive, and fly along with examples of vehicles associated with each verb. 3) Some common expressions used in the context of traveling like "Please pass the salt" and "I've just missed the train."

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English Vocabulary for Transport Verbs

The document provides information about different modes of transportation and verbs used to describe travel. It discusses: 1) Verbs used to describe how people moved in the past such as walked, ran, jumped, danced, swam, climbed, fell. 2) Common verbs used to describe transportation including go by, take, ride, drive, and fly along with examples of vehicles associated with each verb. 3) Some common expressions used in the context of traveling like "Please pass the salt" and "I've just missed the train."

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49 Moving

A Without transport

swim

walk run jump dance climb fall

When talking about the past, we say: walked / ran / jumped / danced / swam / climbed / fell.

B Transport
verb transport example
go by car / plane / bus / train / bike / motorbike / ship / We went to Paris by train last summer.
taxi / underground [NOT by a car]

take a / the bus / train / plane / a taxi / I took a taxi home yesterday.
the underground
ride a bicycle / bike / motorbike / horse I always rode my bike to school.

drive a car / bus / train My uncle drove a bus for ten years.

The pilot flies a plane. How did you get to Istanbul?


We flew there.
Common mistakes
You arrive at or in a place
[NOT arrive to a place]. The
train arrived in Tokyo on
time. The plane arrived late
at Heathrow.

C Expressions If we don’t leave


now we won’t
Please pass Can I help you carry catch our train.
your luggage? I’ve just missed
the salt. the train.

Tip
When you are travelling you will probably see a lot of signs and information in English. Make a note
of any new words and expressions you see.
(See Unit 32: Travelling.)

104 English Vocabulary in Use Elementary


Exercises
49.1 Complete the sentences using verbs from A opposite. Write them in the correct form.
1 Jack likes running round the park every morning but Hannah prefers walking round it
with her dog.
2 Everyone at the
party last night.
3 Every day Claire
ten lengths of the pool before
breakfast.
4 James can very fast. He has won a lot of races.
5 Andrew loves mountains.
6 The old lady on her way home and broke her arm.
7 Stella into the swimming pool and quickly to the other side.
8 It is better for you to to work than to go by car.

49.2 Ride, drive, go by or take? Write the correct word(s) in the sentence.
1 Can you ride a motorbike?
2 He works for a railway company. He a train.
3 She sometimes the underground to work.
4 He goes away from home a lot. He a lorry.
5 I prefer to a bus than car.
6 Would you like to an elephant?
7 You never forget how to a bicycle.
8 I usually a taxi when it rains.
49.3 Complete the diagram with six possible words.
sugar

Please pass the

49.4 Put these sentences into the past tense with the word yesterday.
1 Lilian runs a mile every day. She ran a mile yesterday.
2 Maria often drives her grandmother to the city.
3 Charlie flies to Madrid every week.
4 I sometimes take a taxi home from the station.
5 Bella often falls when she rides her bike.
6 Adrian often misses the 7.30 bus to school.
7 The taxi driver usually helps the old lady to carry her luggage to the train.
8 Madeline usually dances very well.
49.5 Answer these questions. Use every day, once a week, once a year or never.
1 How often do you walk to work or school? I walk to work every day.
2 Have you got a bike? How often do you ride it?
3 How often do you go swimming? Do you swim in the sea or in a pool?
4 How often do you go somewhere by plane?
5 How often do you drive a car?
6 How often do you go dancing?
7 Do you often go climbing?
8 How often do you take a taxi?
English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 105

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