In this lesson, students will listen to someone booking a train ticket. They will predict vocabulary, listen to the conversation and role-play the dialogue to practise their speaking skills. There are also suggestions for developing the theme of travel to practise specific areas of grammar.
- To practise listening skills
- To improve students’ vocabulary and speaking skills
Booking a train ticket worksheet
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Idioms
Hi Salma
Thanks for your comment and good question! This exercise is to get students thinking about the topic of transport whilst introducing them to these idioms. To practice, you could perhaps ask students to write their own short dialogue using the expressions in different contexts- this could be done as an extension exercise after the main listening. As you point out, the idioms are not directly related to the audio, they are there to give another vocabulary focus to the learners.
Hope that helps,
Cath
TeachingEnglish team
Where to click to listen to the audio
On the top, you find the play button doesn't work. Just look down to find 'DOWNLOADS"- Click the fifth item- Booking a train ticket audio2.59 MB-it functions, you can listen and save but no download. Raj
Audio file
Hi annateach,
I'm sorry that you haven't been able to access the audio, I've just checked it on different devices and it loads so it might be that your device doesn't let it load/ can't let it load if you’ve already tried our advice above. Can you use another device to try to load it following those instructions? I hope you can use it in the end, let us know if you can!
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
Impossible to save audio
I have tried to click play, I have tried to save as to my computer, and it has been impossible for me to download or save the audio. I also have not been able to listen to the audio no matter how many times I click the play button. Are there any other instructions you can give me aside from the ones you have given the other people in the comments so that I can try it out? Thank you.
hi ,
may I know how to practice the idoms in the 1st exercise with the student ?