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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - Travel for the textbook New Total English Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Make verb phrases with the verbs from the box and the forms of transport from exercise 1. Each verb can be used with several forms of transport.
  2. What is the difference between.

Answer

a)

catch

  • a bus
  • a coach
  • a ferry
  • a plane
  • a train (forms of timetabled public transport)

get into / out of

  • a car
  • a lorry
  • a taxi
  • a van

get on / off

  • a bicycle
  • a bus
  • a coach
  • a ferry
  • a moped
  • a motorbike
  • a plane
  • a train

go by

  • bicycle
  • bus
  • car
  • coach
  • ferry
  • moped
  • motorbike
  • plane
  • taxi
  • train

miss

  • a bus
  • a coach
  • a ferry
  • a plane
  • a train

ride

  • a bicycle
  • a moped
  • a motorbike

take

  • a bus
  • a coach
  • a ferry
  • a plane
  • a taxi
  • a train

b)

  • A commuter is a person who lives in one place and travels every day to another place for work; a traveller is someone who enjoys going around the world visiting different places.
  • A journey refers to the time you spend moving from one place to another using any kind of transportation; a voyage is a long journey, usually by boat.
  • A passenger is someone who is travelling but is not driving or in charge of the vehicle; a pedestrian is somebody who is walking in the street.