Words Traffic sign Policeman Direction Route Junction Crossroads Up-to-date map Side road Traffic lights Railway station Total distance Roundabout One-way street Motorway
Phrases Turn left/right Go straight Turn around Lose your/the way Askway Takewrong turn Keep going When you get
Beginner A: excuse me, can you tell mewayHolton railway station? B: sure. It’s quite far from here. Don’t worry, though. It’s not difficultget there. A:think I’m goingthe wrong direction, aren’t? B: yes. First, you needturn around. Do you remember passing some traffic lights further up this road? A: yes,do. They are about two miles away, right? B: that’s right. Drive backthe traffic rightsturn right. Followroadaboutmile, until you seeplaza hotel. It’sreally big hotel. You can’t miss it. Turn left athotel. A: so, right attraffic lights two miles uproad, then left atplaza hotel,mile along that road. Got it. B; then you just go straightuntil you seestation aheadyou. A; ok. Got it. Thanksyou help. B: no problem.
Intermediate A: ok, I’ve got an up-to-day map. Let’s checkroute from herethe airport. B: where are we? Oh, here we are. So we drivethe A20turn left. A: no, we turn right. Remember that we are coming from this direction. B: oh yes! Sorry! Then we drivethe M motorway. A; how farthat? B: it’s only seven miles. We turn leftjoinmotorwaydrive south. A: accordingthe map, we get offM atsecond junctionjoinM25. that’smotorway that goes aroundedgeLondon. B: that’s another 5 miles, so that’s 22 miles total so far. A: then we drive westthe M25. we must be carefulturnthe right direction! B: then we drivethe M25.turns south. When we reach exit 5, we turn leftgo west alongM4. A: then we takefirst Heathrow Airport. What’stotal distance? B:journey aroundM2533 milesthen 3 extra milesgetthe airport. So how many milesthat together? A: 22 milesthe M25, 33 milesthe M25,3 after that. That’stotal58 miles, isn’t it? B:shouldn’t take us very longcover that distance. Remember that we can go quite fastthe motor way. A: we can only go fastthe motor ways if there isn’t much traffic.think we should allow ourselves plentytimeget there. Being earlymuch better than being late