G comparatives and superlatives What’s the

V transportation best way to get

Probably the
P /J/, /d3/, and /tJ7, linking around New York
subway although
City?
taxis are more
comfortable.
Race across Miami

1 V O C A B U L A R Y & S P E A K IN G 3 R E A D IN G & L IS T E N IN G
tra n sp o rta tio n a You are going to read about a race that the car show Top
a In pairs, can you think o f four different forms o f G ear organized across the US state o f Florida. Read the
public transportation in towns and cities in your introduction and answer the questions.
country? 1 Where do they have to go from? Where to?
2 W hat are the three methods o f transportation?
b > - p.155 Vocabulary Bank Transportation.
3 Which one do you think will be the fastest? Why?
4 In what order do you think the other two will arrive? Why?
2 P R O N U N C IA T IO N /J/, /d 3/, and /tJ7
a 2 4))) Look at the pictures. W hat are the words
and sounds? Listen and repeat.

What’s the fastest way

On Top Gear, a very popular TV series about cars and driving,

b W rite three words from the list in each column. they decided to organize a race across Florida to fin d the
quickest way to cross a busy state. The idea w as to s ta rt from
adventure bridge catch crash dangerous Miami, in the southw estern part of the tip of Florida, and to
each rush station tra ffic jam
finish the race at the southern-m ost point of the US, Key West,
a trip of 160 miles. Three possible fo rm s of transportation
c 2 5))) Listen and check. Practice saying the words.
were chosen: a motorboat, a car, and a com bination of
d Look at the words in the columns. W hat are the transportation. One of the show ’s hosts, Rutledge Wood, took
typical spellings for these sounds? G o to the the motorboat and his colleague Adam Ferrera too k the car
Sound Bank p.167 and check. (a 2010 Lotus Evora). Tanner Foust too k different kinds of
transportation. His trip involved getting a taxi to the airport
e 2 6))) Listen to the pairs o f words. Can you hear
w here he fle w in a seaplane. Then he rented a scooter.
the difference? Practice saying them.
They set o ff from Jones Boat Yard on the Miami River...
/tJ7 and /d3/
1 a cheap b jeep
2 a chain b jane
3 a choke b joke
/J7 and /tfl
4 a ship b chip
5 a shoes b choose
6 a wash b watch
2»7))) Listen andt^ircj^the word you hear.

g 2 8))) Listen and write five sentences.

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 b Now read about the trips by motorboat and car. Do
you still think your predictions in 3a are right?

c Read the two trips again and answer the questions

with R (Rutledge) or A (Adam).
Rutledge in the m otorboat
W h o ...?
His trip began in the Miami River. For the first hour there 1 □ went much faster in the later part o f his trip
was a speed limit of 7 miles an hour because of the
2 Q ] did something illegal
enforced no-wake zone in the river. Once the boat passed
3 [_j went more slowly in the later part o f his trip
through Biscayne Bay and went under the Rickenbacker
Bridge, he entered open water. Rutledge increased the 4 Q had to stop for more gas
boat’s speed to over 90 miles an hour and made up the time 5 I_] couldn’t understand the directions spoken by
he lost on the Miami River. Approximately 60 miles from the GPS
the finish line, Rutledge was ahead of Adam and Tanner, 6 ŋ was in the lead for most o f the race
but he had to stop for gas if he wanted to reach the finish
line in Key West. In the 15 minutes it took to refuel the boat,
d Look at the highlighted verbs and verb phrases.
Adam passed Rutledge in the car and took the lead. Once
W ith a partner, figure out their meaning from
Rutledge was back on the open water, there were a lot of context.
big waves, but he was able to pass Adam near Seven Mile
Bridge just outside of Key West. Unfortunately for both
Rutledge and Adam, Tanner flew over both of them in the
seaplane at about the same time. Now Tanner was in the
best position to win. Each racer was only miles from the
finish line in Key West. Who would win? Tanner in the seaplane

e 2 9))) Now listen to what happened to Tanner.

Follow his route on the map.

Adam in the car

Adam started off OK. He wasn’t driving fast because

he was going the speed limit. However, after an hour,
Adam decided that he was going too slowly. He increased
his speed to 75 miles an hour— 20 miles an hour over
the speed limit. As Adam passed through a small town,
he was stopped by the police! They were angry that
Adam was speeding, and it meant that Adam lost many
valuable minutes! Another problem Adam had was that
his GPS was programmed to give directions in Spanish
instead of English. This made finding his way to Key West
difficult. As Adam finally approached Key West, the traffic
was getting worse. He was worried about getting stuck so
close to the finish line. Only three miles to go... f 2 10))) With a partner, write down the order in which
you now think the three people arrived. Now listen to
what happened. W hat order did they arrive in?

g > • Communication I’m a tourist - can you help me?

A p.104 B p.109.

Glossary
1 mile the unit o f distance used in the US and the UK (=1.6
kilometers); 160 miles = 257 kilometers
seaplane an airplane that can take off from the water or the land
no-wake zone an area o f water where boats must travel slowly to
avoid making waves

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 VOCABULARY BANK
Transportation
1 P U B L IC T R A N S P O R T A T IO N
A N D V E H IC L E S
a M a t c h th e w o r d s a n d p ic t u r e s .

b u s /bns/ s u b w a y /'sAbw ei/

fre e w a y /'friw e i/ (BritE th e u n d e r g r o u n d )
lig h t r a il / l a it red/ t r a in It re in /
1 p la t f o r m /'p ltetfo rm / t r u c k ltr\kl
s c o o te r/'s k u to r/ v a n /vaj n/

b 2 2))) L is t e n a n d c h e c k .

c C o v e r th e w o r d s a n d lo o k a t th e p ic t u r e s .
T r y to r e m e m b e r th e w o r d s .

3 H O W LONG DO ES
2 ON TH E ROAD IT T A K E ?
P Compound nouns
How long does it take?
Compound nouns are two nouns together where the firs t noun describes the
second, e.g., a child seat = a seat for a child, a bus stop = a place for buses to It takes about an hour to get from
stop, etc. In compound nouns, the firs t noun is stressed more strongly than Princeton to New York City by train.
the second. There are many compound nouns related to road travel. It took (me) more than an hour to get
to work yesterday.
How long does it take (you) to get to
a C o m p le t e th e c o m p o u n d n o u n s .
school?
belt belt/ camera /'kasm ra/ crash kr<e|7 hour /'auar/ ja m / d 3tem/ Use take (+ person) + time (+ to get to) to
te fte /le in / lig h t /la it/ lim it /'lim o t/ stand /sttend/ station /'steifn/ talk about the duration of a trip, etc.
tic k e t /'tik o t/ walk w ok w ork /w ork/ zone M oo n /
R e a d th e in f o r m a t io n b o x a b o v e . T h e n a s k
a n d a n s w e r th e q u e s t io n s w it h a p a r tn e r .

1 H o w d o y o u g et to w o r k / s c h o o l?
H o w lo n g d o e s it ta ke ?
2 H o w lo n g d o e s it ta k e to g et f r o m
1 bicycle lane 2 car 3 cross y o u r h o u s e to th e c e n te r o f to w n ?

J D Phrasal verbs
Learn these phrasal verbs connected
with transportation and travel.
We set o ff at 7:00 in the morning to try
4 gas 5 parking 6 pedestrian to avoid the traffic. (= leave on a trip)
I arrive at 8:15. Do you think you could pick
me up at the station? (= go somewhere in
a car and get him/her, etc.)
1got on the wrong bus, and / ended up
on the opposite side o f town. (= find
7 road 8 rush 9 seat 10 speed yourself in a place / situation that you
did not expect)
We’re running out o f gas. Let's stop
at the next gas station. (= finish your
supply o f something)
Watch out! / Look out! You’re going to
11 speed 12 taxi 13 traffic 14 traffic crash! (= be careful or pay attention to
something dangerous)

b 2 3))) L is t e n a n d c h e c k . T h e n c o v e r th e c o m p o u n d n o u n s a n d lo o k a t th e
< p .2 4
p ic t u r e s . R e m e m b e r th e c o m p o u n d n o u n s .
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