Unit 9 Getting Around

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How Do You Get Around?

Unit 9 Summary

Getting Around - focuses on how people travel around the city, go to work, go to school, travel around the country and which type of transport suits them best. This unit will help you use language in conversation to describe how you get around and ask for information from others.

English Unlimited pages 74, 76

Look at the pictures in the table, what does each one show? Self assessment, not graded activity. Choose the correct answer for each picture.

car,

monorail,

motorbike, walking,

camel,

boat, plane,

bus,

4 wheel drive,

bicycle,

Type of Transport
1

Matching Sentence

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Read the sentences in the box Task 1: In your note book, write the number for each picture, choose a sentence from the box to match each type of transport. Make sure you write the sentences correctly beside the correct number. How do you get around?

I go by monorail, because it is fast and gets me close to my home.

I walk because do

not have to go far from my office. I ride because I like the exercise, it keeps me fit. We went by camel because we wanted to experience traditional travel in the desert. I always do lots of shopping so I take my car. take the bus. I dont like driving in heavy traffic so I It is easier to catch the water taxi across the creek than drive around. When I travel to another country I go with

Our four wheel drive is the best when we go out in the desert driving. On our days off we take our motor bike out on the road. Etihad.

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Task 2: Ask 2 people in your class, How do you get around? They must answer in full sentences. Write their names and answers in your note book. Remember capitals, information and stops. English Unlimited pages 70-71 Task 3: In your note book, complete the table with the correct comparative and superlative. /6

er

est

fast

safe

slow

Abu Dhabi to London 12 hours long

Abu Dhabi to Sydney 22 hours

Abu Dhabi to Los Angeles 23 hours

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English Unlimited pages 77 The most common preposition of movement is to, but there are lots of others:

up

down

across

up the stairs up the hill over

down the stairs down the hill under

across the road across the river along

over the bridge over the hill into

under the bridge under the table out of

along the street along the river through

into the house into the garden past

out of the house out of the garden round/around

through the town through the door from ... to ...

past the house past the cat

round the tree round the park

from A to B

Watch Video 1. Non graded practice exercise: go to this web site and practice http://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/learning-english/prepositions/exercises/prepositions-movement.html

Watch video 2: The Hobbit, An Unexpected journey.

Audio 1: Listen to and then read the summary of An Unexpected Journey.

Task 4: Choose the correct prepositions of movement from the box to fit the empty spaces.

The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey Bilbo Baggins is swept ..a quest to get back the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself setting .on a journey . Erebor, in the company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey takes them the Wild; . treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, .. Giant Spiders, and .. Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although they must go . the East and .. the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain they must first go . the mountains and go .. the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo comes the creature that will change his life forever ... Gollum. Here, . the others, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, Bilbo gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities.

under across through away from

into

past towards across away from down into

into to off from

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Story writers have created other ways of getting around, such as:

Magic Carpet

Dragon

Broomstick

Time Machine

Can you think of anymore? Video 3: Go to this web site and listen to the story of Ali and the Magic Carpet. http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/ali-and-the-magic-carpet

Task 5: Choose an unusual way of getting around and write a story about your trip. Remember to include a beginning, middle and end to your story. Use the plan below to help. Marked according to rubric. /20

RECOUNT Title: Introduction .. who? what? where?

What happened? First . . . . Then . . . . Next . . . . Finally . . . .

Conclusion/ending. We/I thought.