Recording 133, page 180
Exercise 4a How do these children travel to school? Listen and complete the table below.
Greg
I live in New York, in the USA. I travel to school by school bus. There is often a lot of cars, so it can be quite slow.
School starts at nine o’clock. I usually leave home at eight o’clock, and get to school at quarter to nine.
Sometimes the journey to school takes more than an hour, and I’m late for school.
Patsy
I live in London, in England. I go to school on foot and by underground.
I like travelling by underground because it’s fast and it stops right outside my school, so I don’t have to walk far at all.
School starts at nine o’clock. I leave home at eight o’clock, and get to school at quarter to nine. The journey to school is quite expensive, but I’ve got a monthly ticket.
Nick
I live in Edinburgh, in Scotland. My school starts at 8:30.
It’s a long way, but I don’t go by bus. I usually leave home at twenty to eight, and I walk to school.
It’s good exercise. I get to school at twenty past eight. My school friends come to school by bus.
Ron
I live in Cardiff, in Wales. My parents take me to school by car because they go to work in the city centre.
School starts at quarter to nine. We usually leave at twenty past eight, and ten minutes later they drop me off at the school.
Virginia
I live in Belfast, in Northern Ireland. It is only two kilometres from my home to my school.
I usually go by bike. School starts at quarter to nine. I usually leave home at quarter past eight, and get to school at half past eight.
Jia and Chen
We live in a remote mountain village in southwest China.
To get to school, we have to cross a valley hundreds of metres deep on a homemade cable car.
Before a local man built this simple cableway three years ago, we had to make the journey on foot. It took us five hours.
But now the exciting, although slightly scary journey takes us only half an hour.
