un viaggio a londra

Deciding where to sleep

A trip to

london Lezione 1

La partenza 1

Decidere dove

dormire

1-3

Arrivati

all’aeroporto

4

Cercando un mez-

zo di trasporto

5-6

La metropolitana 7

I biglietti per la

metro

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

English

Learning

1. The Nayland 132-134 Sussex Gardens, Paddington, London W2 1UB

General Bar, 24-Hour Front Desk, Non-

Smoking Rooms, Family Rooms, Eleva-

tor, Safety Deposit Box, Heating, Lug-

gage Storage, All Public and Private

spaces non-smoking

Services Room Service, Tour Desk,

Fax/Photocopying, Ticket Service

Internet Wi-fi is available in the entire hotel

and costs GBP 5 per hour.

Hotel policies Check-in 1400 - 00:00 hours

Check-out 09:00 - 11:00 hours

“Very clean , well presented and lovely

and warm. Staff made us welcome and

the lady who served coffee at breakfast

was delightful. A great place to stay and

excellent value for money”. In the area

there are many restaurants and shops.

€ 278,00

for three nights

Prepare your luggage now… we are going to London!!!

We are going to fly with Ryanair. It is a low-cost airline that flies from Perugia S. Egi-

dio to London Stansted airport. These are the timetables from Perugia to London:

Day Flight Nr Departure Arrival Note:

Monday FR4953 11.20 12.45 from 25/3 to 26/10

Tuesday FR4953 10.50 12.15 from 3/7 to 28/8

Wednesday FR4953 11.20 12.45 from 25/3 to 26/10

Thursday FR4953 11.20 12.45 from 25/3 to 26/10

Friday FR4953 11.20 12.45 from 25/3 to 26/10

Saturday FR4953 17.20 18.45 from 4/8 to 25/8

Sunday FR4953 15.10 16.35 from 25/3 to 26/10

Which day would you like to go? On ____________

What time is the flight? At ______________

What time is the arrival? At _____________

The departure

These are four nice hotels in London:

luggage

On si usa con _________

At si usa con __________

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3. Admiral Hotel 143 Boston Place, London W2 2RX

General Bar, 24-Hour Front Desk, Non-Smoking Ro-

oms, Family Rooms, Heating, Luggage Storage,

All Public and Private spaces non-smoking

Services Ironing Service, Fax/Photocopying

Internet Free! Wi-fi is available in the hotel rooms and

is free of charge.

Parking Private parking is possible on site (reservation

is not needed) and costs GBP 10 per day.

Hotel policies Check-in From 13:00 hours

Check-out Until 11:00 hours

€ 340,00 for

three nights

Rooms at the Admiral are de-

corated in modern artwork

and feature satellite TVs. They

also include hairdryers, fridges

and some rooms have balco-

nies with city views. It is loca-

ted in a quiet and lovely area.

4. So Paddington Hotel 6-8 Broadley Street , London W21RS

General 24-Hour Front Desk, Non-Smoking

Rooms, Express Check-In/Check-Out,

Heating, Luggage Storage, All Public and

Private spaces non-smoking

Services Babysitting/Child Services, Laundry,

Dry Cleaning, Ironing Service, Fax/

Photocopying, Concierge Service

Internet Free! Wi-fi is available in the entire

hotel and is free of charge.

Parking No parking available.

Hotel policies Check-in 14:00 - 00:00 hours

Check-out 11:00 - 12:00 hours

€ 350,00 for

three nights

Each of the hotel’s rooms features a

bathroom with a shower and hair-

dryer. Rooms also include a tea/

coffee-making facilities and beds with

thick duvets, whilst some also feature

a DVD player.

2. Abbey Court Hotel 74 Seymour Place ,London W2 1TP

General 24-Hour Front Desk, Family Rooms,

Elevator, Safety Deposit Box, Hea-

ting, Luggage Storage

Parking Private parking is possible on site (reservation is not possible) and

costs GBP 15 per day.

Internet Free! Wired internet is available in

public areas and is free of charge.

Hotel policies Check-in From 14:00 hours

Check-out Until 10:30 hours

€ 300,20 for

three nights

“Staff are friendly, poli-te, courteous and atten-tive.” The rooms at Ab-bey Court Hotel have private bathrooms and tea/coffee facilities. Ro-oms also have a TV and hairdryer, and some ha-ve compact kitchenettes.

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2. Now ask your mates about his/her favourite hotel.

Which hotel do you like?

The Admiral.

Why?

it is ...

Because it has ...

the room has ...

4. Find the opposites:

1. Expensive ___ I don’t like

2. Near ___ Cheap

3. There aren’t ___ There isn’t

4. It has ___ I think

5. I don’t think ___ There are

6. I like ___ It doesn’t have

7. There is ___ Far

5. Describe our favourite hotel

We think that the best hotel is _________________ because

it is ___________________________________________.

It has _________________________________________

______________________________________________.

In the room there are _____________________________

______________________________________________

The best hotel for us is

___________________

and it is near the

___________________

tube station

3. We are going to London for 3 days. In which hotel

would you like to stay?

I don’t think the best hotel is …

I don’t like it because...

It is (very / not very) expensive/far from

the tube station ...

It doesn’t have internet for free/babysitting ...

The room doesn’t have a kitchenette/a balcony ...

I think the best hotel is …

I like it because...

It is (very/not very) cheap/near the tube

station/near a park ...

It has internet for free/babysitting ...

The room has a kitchenette/a balcony …

The Nayland

Abbey Court Hotel

Admiral Hotel

So Paddington Hotel

Location Services Internet Other

The Nayland

Abbey Court Hotel

Admiral Hotel

So Paddington Hotel

Some ideas.. It is.. (not) cheap/near the tube station/near a park … It has ...

internet (not) for free/parking possibilities ... The room has a kitchenette/coffe-making facilities/a balcony …

1. You and your family or friends are going to London for 3 days. In which hotel would you like to stay?

Read the 4 hotel descriptions, then have a look at the city map and see near which Tube station they are.

Make some notes in the chart below about the thing you like or you don’t like, for each hotel.

The best hotel for me is

___________________

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Arrival - at the airport

7. Who speaks? You are at the passport control: who

says these words? Police officer You

A) Passport please!

B) Have a nice day!

C) Thank you.

D) Can I see your passport, please?

E) Here it is.

F) Bye!

G) Can you wait here, please?

6. Match with the correct sign:

1. Arrivals ____

2. Departures ____

3. Baggage claim ____

4. Passport control ____

5. Check-in ____

6. Shops ____

A

B

F

D E

C

At the UK airports there are two

separate queues:

European Union, European Econo-

mic Area, British and Swiss.

All other nationalities.

8. What happens? Put the correct letter(s)

near the situations:

- Mi chiedono il passaporto __ __ - Mi ringraziano __

- Mi salutano __ __

- Mi chiedono di aspettare __

- Ringrazio __

- Mostro/do qualcosa a qualcuno __

- Saluto qualcuno __ __

Other ways to greet someone

9. You know many greetings in English, but are they appropriate to the situation?

arriving going away to a friend formal

1. Good morning!

2. Hi!

3. See you!

4. Good evening!

5. See you tomorrow!

6. How are you doing?

7. How do you do?

8. Good afternoon!

9. See you later!

10. Good night!

10. What does it mean?

a. Ci vediamo dopo! __

b. Buona sera! __

c. Ci vediamo! __

d. Ci vediamo domani! __

e. Salve! (formale) __

f. Salve! (informale) __

g. Buon pomeriggio! __

h. Buona notte! __

i. Ciao! __

j. Buon giorno! __

Silvia arrives at the airport.

Passport, please!

Here it is.

Thank you. Have a nice day!

You too. Bye!

Marco arrives at the airport.

Can I see your passport, please?

Yes, here it is.

Thank you. Can you wait here,

please?

Sure. Is there a problem?


Looking for a transport

We need to go to our hotel. We have two options:

From Until Minutes past

each hour

Monday to

Friday (05.30MF) 06.00 06.15

06.30 06.45^ 07.00

23.45 23.59* 00.30*

(01.00*FS) (01.30*FS)

00 - 15 - 30 - 45

Saturday 05.30 06.00 23.45 23.59* 00.30* 00 - 15 - 30 - 45

Sunday 05.30 06.00 06.30 07.00 23.45 23.59* 00.30*

01.00* 01.30*

00 - 15 - 30 - 45

1. go by train

MF Monday & Friday only

FS Friday & Saturday early mornings only

^ 07.45 leave 2 minutes early (i.e. 07.43)

* Trains from 23.59 not via Tottenham Hale

Stansted Express Fast, frequent and convenient trains run between the airport and Lon-

don Liverpool Street from early until late.

Trains depart every 15 minutes.

Average journey time 46 minutes to Liverpool Street and 35 minutes

to Tottenham Hale.

Express class single fare £22.50 (£21.50 online booking).

Also calls at Bishop's Stortford, Harlow Town and Tottenham Hale.

For London Underground services, change at Tottenham Hale (Victoria Line) or Liverpool Street (Circle, Metropolitan and Ham-

mersmith & City lines).

Stansted - London Liverpool Street - timetables

11. Complete the sentences with the right information:

a. There are ______ minutes between London Stansted and London Liverpool street.

b. A single fare costs ______, but if you book it online, it costs ______.

c. The first train is at ____________ , the last one is at _________.

d. There is a train every ______ minutes.

e. You can change for Victoria Line (underground or Tube) at _________________ .

f. You can change for Circle line at ________________.

g. The Stansted Express stops at the following stations:

1. _________________________ 2. _________________________

3. _________________________ 4. _________________________ (last station)

12. Answer these questions according to your needs

a. If your flight arrives at _______, and you need 30 minutes to arrive at the train station, what

time do you take the train?

b. What time do you arrive in Tottenham Hale ? And in London Liverpool Street?

E allora … Numbers!!

1 one 11 eleven 21 twenty one

2 two 12 twelve 22 twenty two

3 three 13 thirteen 30 thirty

4 four 14 fourteen 40 fourty

5 five 15 fifteen 50 fifty

6 six 16 sixteen 60 sixty

7 seven 17 seventeen 70 seventy

8 eight 18 eighteen 80 eighty

9 nine 19 nineteen 90 ninety

10 ten 20 twenty 100 hundred

200 two hundred 1000 one thousand

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Service Destination Frequency Journey

time/fare

easyBus EB2 Baker Street, London Up to every 20 min 75 min/ From £9

National Express A6 London Victoria Up to every 10 min 85-100min/ £10.50

National Express A9 Stratford and London

Liverpool Street Up to every 30 min

45-60min/ £8.50

Terravision A50 London Victoria Up to every 30 min 75 min/ £9

Terravision A51 London Liverpool Street Up to every 30min 55 min/ £9

Terravision A52 London Stratford Up to every 30 min 40 min/ From £6

2. go by bus Stansted Airport's bus and coach station is opposite the main terminal entrance.

Coach tickets can be bought at the ticket desk in arrivals (open 06:00 to 01:00),

in the coach station (24 hours, seven days a week) or on board.

13. You need to go to your hotel. What do you do?

Have a look at the Tube map and according to the position of your hotel, find the best way!

a) Fill with the missing words the following sentence:

I. My hotel is near ________________ tube station, which is on the __________ line.

b) Fill with the missing words the following sentences and use the sentence

on the right to complete your description.

II. If I take the train, I will arrive at Liverpool Street station.

I have to take the ____________ line direction _______________.

III. If I take the bus, I will arrive at _____________ station.

I have to take the ____________ line direction _______________.

a. After ____ stops I have

to change again at

____________ station.

b. Then after ____ stops,

I will arrive at destination.

c. After ____ stops

I will arrive at

destination


How to get the right tube.

The names of the ending stations are very useful to understand in which direction you have to go.

For instance, if you are in the Central Line (the red one), at Liverpool Street Station and you would like to go:

to Notthing Hill Gate, you have to take the tube that goes direction West Ruislip or Ealing Brodway

to Stratford, you have to take the tube that goes direction Woodford or Epping

The Circle line.

Very useful, in London is the

Circle line, coloured yellow on

the tube map.

It has a circular route around

the centre of London on the

north side of the River Tha-

mes linking the main line railway

terminii.

At Liverpool Street station you can change to the

yellow, pink or purple line

The Tube The London Underground (also colloquially called the Tube) is a rapid transit system that

serves a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshi-

re, Hertfordshire and Essex.

It incorporates the oldest section of underground railway in the world, which opened in

1863 and now forms part of the Circle,Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines; and

the first line to operate electric trains, in 1890, now part of the Northern line.

The Underground serves 270 stations and has 402 kilometres of track, 45 per

cent of which is underground.

It is the second largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles,

after the Shanghai Metro.

In 2007, more than one billion passenger journeys were recorded, making it

the third busiest metro system in Europe, after Moscow and Paris. The tube is

an international icon for London, with the tube map, considered a design clas-

sic, having influenced many other transport maps worldwide.

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Zones 1 to 2

Oyster £2.70 peak*, £2.00 off-peak

Zones 1 to 6

Oyster £4.80 peak*, £2.90 off-peak

Unlimited journeys in one day in

zones 1 and 2

£8.40 peak, £7.00 off-peak

Single bus journey £1.35

Travelcards

Day Anytime - Can be used at any

time on the day of validity and for any

journey that starts before 04:30 the

following day.

Day Off-Peak - Can be used from 09:30 Mondays to Fridays, all day

Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, on the day(s) of validity and

for any journey that starts before 04:30 the following day.

Visitor Oyster card

7 Day - Can be used for 7 days during the period

of validity and for any journey that starts before

04:30 on the day following the expiry date.

You must touch your Oyster card on the yellow card readers when travelling.

*Peak Oyster single fares apply from 06:30-09:30 and from 16.00-19-00 Mon-day to Friday (except public holidays).

Delivery country: Italy - Estimated 8 to 12 days

7 Day Price

Adult Zones 1-2 £29.20





Day Anytime Price




Day Off-Peak Price



Adult Zones 1-6 £ 8.50

Select a type Price

£10 card + Activation fee £13.00






How much credit do I need? Sample Tube fares:

Which Travelcard? You can always buy a normal paper Travelcard… but you need to know which

one! In fact there are many Travelcards. Some of them are only for a day, others for 7 days:

Which card will you buy?

I think that a/an ___________ is the best for us, because we

will stay in London for ____ days. It is the cheapest solution

The fare system

The Underground uses a zonal fare system: London is divided into 6 zones; Zone 1 is the most central, with a boun-

dary just beyond the Circle line, and Zone 6 is the outermost and includes London Heathrow Airport.

Some ticket machines accept coins, notes and credit cards, some accept coins only, and some accept cards only.

Since 2003 you can use the Oyster card, a smartcard with a contactless chip, which you can charge up with credit

and use to pay for travel. It can also be loaded with Travelcards.

It can be used on the Underground, the Overground, buses, trams, the Docklands Light Railway, and National

Rail services within London. As a visitor you have the possibility to buy one online at:

http://visitorshop.tfl.gov.uk/oystercard/product/oyster-card.html

http://visitorshop.tfl.gov.uk/oystercard/product/oyster-card.html


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