• How many different types of roads do

you know? Where can we see them?

• Do you know what we call the following

roads in English?

path/lane

Lanes or paths are very small roads.

motorways (Britain)

freeways/expressways (America)

Freeways/expressways/motorways

are roads where cars can go very

fast.

flyovers

Flyovers are roads that go over other roads.

Spaghetti junction

Spaghetti junction is made up of

many intersections and flyovers,

which looks like strings of spaghetti.

toll roads

Toll roads are roads where people

need to pay to use the roads.

underpass

Underpasses are roads that go

through a tunnel.

street

Streets are roads with sidewalks

in a city or town.

avenue

Avenues are wide roads lined

with trees on each side.

Read the article in Part A, then

work in pairs to ask/answer

questions about different types of

roads.

e.g. What kinds of roads are called

flyovers?

Think of as many tools of transport

as you can belonging to the following

three categories.

Transport

Land Air Sea

.. .. .

underground/subway/metro

motorbike, bicycle, train, car,

minibus, taxi, coach, bus

airplane helicopter

ship ferry motorboat

light railway

What different ways

of transport have you

experienced?

1. Who has ever travelled by light

railway or by underground? What was

it like? What do you think of travelling

by light railway or by underground?

2. What do you think about travelling by

coach, by airplane or helicopter, or by

ferry or motorboat? Have you ever

tried these ways of transport?

3. If you are going to Shanghai, what

means of transport would you use

to go there? Why?

4. If you are going to London, what

means of transport would you use

to go there? And why?

Read and complete the passage in Part C.

Answers:

1. _________ 2. _________

3. _________ 4. ________

5. _________ 6. ___________

7. ________ 8. _________

motorways paths

flyovers

land

sea

air airplane

ships

Answer the following questions by

using the the words or phrases

listed in Part D.

1. What must you do before you go

somewhere by train?

Book a seat or a ticket.

2. Where will you go to buy the train

ticket? To the ticket office.

3. What ticket can help a student save

money?

A student ticket.

4. What do we call the person who is

travel ling on a train?

A passenger.

5. What do we call the person who

sells bus tickets?

A conductor.

6. If you want to travel to a foreign

country, what must you have?

A passport.

Put the words in Part D in the box into

the correct categories.

Actions Documents Jobs

get off return ticket conductor

book a seat/ticket

one-way

ticketcaptain

Actions Documents People/jobs

board

land

student ticket

passport

pilot

customs officer