2017-01-09 Daily Life: types of transportation

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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If a verb comes from a noun, it is regular (past tense with -ed):
snow / snowed
rain / rained
It snowed on Saturday and it will rain tomorrow.
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This week: transportation vocabulary and conversations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D8oVMfBv54 - Transportation vocabulary guessing game
Write the names of the types of transportation you hear.
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Most subway lines have trains on them. (A train just means many cars attached to each other.)
The commuter rail (the purple line) is more common here if we say, “I take the train to ___.”
In many places, “train” means the one you take between cities (usually Amtrak in the US).
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aircraft = any transportation or vehicle in the air (including prop planes, jets, helicopters, airships, and balloons)
(We also say “spacecraft” and sometimes “watercraft”.)
For land, we usually just say “vehicle” (and “motor vehicle” if it has an engine).
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Have you been on all of the kinds of transportation from the video?
1 bus
2 train
3 motorcycle (A “biker” is probably someone who rides a motorcycle.)
4 subway
5 car
6 helicopter
7 bicycle / bike (The person on a bicycle can be a “cyclist”, but we usually don’t use “cycle” for the vehicle.)
8 airplane
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The person in control of a car or bus is the driver.
	(If you ride a car or bus, you are a passenger.)
The person in control of a motorcycle or bike is a rider.
The person in control of a plane is a pilot.
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“Talking about using transportation” handout - With a partner, complete the sentences (1-10).
1 They are getting on the bus. (It’s happening right now in the picture, so we use [be] + verb(ing) for the present continuous.)
2 He is waiting for the bus.
3 He missed the bus. (Past, because it already happened in the picture.)
4 The bus is crowded. / The bus is full.
5 His father is getting off the bus.
6 He is getting in the car. / He is getting out of the car.
7 They are crossing the street.
8 She is filling up the car. / She is putting gas in her car.
9 He is pushing the car.
10 He crashed his father’s car.
You can get on or off the bus.
You can get in or out of the car.
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Homework: answer the questions (1-6) at the end of this page