Sunday 17 June 2018

Unit 7- Vocabulary

-Commuting: the activity of travelling regularly between work and home.
-Double-decker: a bus with two levels.
-Fare: the money that you pay for a journey in a vehicle such as a bus or train.
-Pedestrian: a person who is walking, especially in an area where vehicles go.
-Rush hour: the busy part of the day when towns and cities are crowded, either in the morning when people are travelling to work, or in the evening when people are travelling home.

-Phrasal verbs: travel-

  • Come across: to behave in a way that makes people believe that you have a particular characteristic.
  • Get away: to leave or escape from a person or place, often when it is difficult to do this.
  • Get off: to leave a place, usually in order to start a journey.
  • Get on: to have a good relationship.
  • See off: 
    to go to the place that someone is leaving from in order to say goodbye to them.
  • Set off: to start on a trip.
  • Speed up: an increase in the rate of change or growth.
  • Stop over: to stay at a place for one night or a few nights on the way to somewhere else or before returning home.
  • Take off: when a plane leaves the ground and begins to fly.
  • Turn back: to return in the direction you have come from, or to make someone do this.

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