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    The story describes a family trip from England to Paris for a birthday. They almost ran out of gas on the way to the airport. After refueling, they were pulled over by police but only given a warning. Due to traffic, they took a shortcut but got lost until a local gave them directions. They arrived on time but the parents were delayed in traffic.

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    The story describes a family trip from England to Paris for a birthday. They almost ran out of gas on the way to the airport. After refueling, they were pulled over by police but only given a warning. Due to traffic, they took a shortcut but got lost until a local gave them directions. They arrived on time but the parents were delayed in traffic.

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    The story describes a family trip from England to Paris for a birthday. They almost ran out of gas on the way to the airport. After refueling, they were pulled over by police but only given a warning. Due to traffic, they took a shortcut but got lost until a local gave them directions. They arrived on time but the parents were delayed in traffic.

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    A B

    3 Travelling by car

    1 Read the story and put pictures A–D in order.

    Last Saturday it was my mum’s 70th birthday so we went on a


    family trip to Paris for the weekend. My wife Viv and I – and the
    kids, of course – set off early for the airport, with my parents
    driving in front in their own car. Soon I realised we were going to
    run out of petrol, so I phoned them on their mobile and explained
    C D
    that we would fill up at the next garage.
    When we left the garage, we speeded up to catch up with mum
    and dad, but suddenly a police car overtook us and I had to slow
    down and pull over. Luckily the police officer only gave me a
    warning, so we set off again. By now the traffic was terrible, so we

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    decided to take a short cut. Unfortunately, we got lost and didn’t

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    know where we were. We stopped a young man to ask the way
    and because he was going in the same direction, we gave him a
    lift. He was able to map-read so we got to the airport in time, but
    there was no sign of my mum and dad. They got stuck in a traffic 3 a  Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the
    jam after we lost them, so we all caught a later flight. Although it words/phrases from 2.
    was difficult getting to Paris, we still had a great weekend.
    1 Have you ever run out of petrol?

    2 Do you if someone is driving too


    2 Match the words/phrases in bold in the story in
    close behind you?
    1 to definitions a–l. Write the infinitive form of
    the verbs. 3 Do you usually in bad weather?
    a take someone where they want to go in a car 4 Do you wait until your car is nearly empty before
    give someone a lift you it ?
    5 If you were following a friend and he or she was
    b put petrol in a car
    driving too fast, would you try to
    c not be able to move forward or make progress
    him/her?
    6 Are you good at or do you always
    d follow a quicker or shorter way to get somewhere
    have to ask for directions?
    7 Have you ever stopped to ? Where
    e pass another car because it is going more slowly
    did he or she want to go?
    than you
    8 Have you ever in a town that you
    f understand a map don’t know very well?
    g go faster 9 What do you do if you in a traffic
    h go slower jam?

    i not know where you are 10 Have you ever been asked to by a
    police officer?
    j use all of something so there is nothing left
    11 If you were in a hurry, would you
    if you weren’t sure which way to go?
    k reach someone who is in front of you
    12 Do other cars often you?

    l stop at the side of the road b  Answer the questions for you.

    7 give someone a lift  8 got lost  9 get stuck  10 pull over  11 take a short cut  12 overtake
    j run out of  k catch up with  l pull over   3   a 2 speed up  3 slow down  4 fill ... up  5 catch up with  6 map-reading 
    1   1C  2A  3D  4B   2   b fill up  c get stuck  d take a short cut  e overtake  f map-read  g speed up  h slow down  i get lost 

    Instructions p197 © Cambridge University Press 2013 face2face Second edition Intermediate Photocopiable 203

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