Group 5

Everyone was waiting for me

Learn to describe travel problems:

G Past continuous.

V Travel collocations.
 Table Of Contents
01 VOCABULARY 02 LISTENING
Travel collocations

03 GRAMMAR 04 READING AND

Past continuous
SPEAKING
Part 01
VOCABULARY
TRAVEL COLLOCATIONS
 New words

- Travel around: đi du lịch

- Land: hạ cánh
- Hitchhike: quá giang
- Turbulence: rắc rối, nhiễu loạn
- Break down: hỏng
- Traffic jam: tắc đường
- Some thing wrong with : có gì đó không ổn với
- Strike (n): cuộc đình công
- Get lost : bị lạc
- Long queue: xếp hàng dài
- Delay: hoãn lại
1A Look at the list of ways to travel. Which do you prefer? why?

car bus plane

on foot
train coach
1B Look at the travel problem in pictures. Which situation do you
dislike the most?
Now go to vocabulary focus 2B on p.135
 a. Listen to sentences 1-8 and look at the journey on the map. Match the
words in bold with their definitions (a-h).
a. get on a bus/train/plane
1.We travelled around Europe last year.
b. get off one bus/train/plane and get on a different
2.We set off in june.
bus/train/plane
3.We took off late but...
c. drive another person to their destination
4. ...we landed on time in Berlin
d. leave an airport by plane
5. We hitchhiked across Germany.
e. stand by the road and ask for free rides
6.A kind man gave us a lift to Frankfurt.
f. arrive at a place
7. We boarded a train to Paris.
g. arrive at an airport by plane
8. We changed at Stasbourg.
h. visit many different places in large area
9. We got to Paris at seven-thirty.
i. start a journey
b.Cover the sentences in a and use the map to retell the story.
 c Match the travel problems with the pictures.
a b
1. They missed the train. a b
2. My car broke down on the motor way.
c
c d
3. There was a lot of turbulence during the flight d

4. I had an accident on the drive to work.

e
e ff
5. The traffic jam went on for miles down the road.

6. There was something wrong with the plane.

g
h
7. There was a strike, so there were no buses. g h

8. We got lost in the city centre.

i j
9. There was a long queue at the ticket office. i j

10. There was a delay at the station.

d. Listen and check. Then listen and repeat.
e. Cover the sentences in c and try to remember them. Use the pictures to help you.
 f. Ask and answer the questtions

1. Which of the problems in the pictures have you had on journeys this year?
2. Is there a country you’d like to travel around?
3. When was the last time a friend and family member gave you a lift?
4. How do you feel when a plane takes off and lands?
5. What is your least favourite way to travel? Why?
Part 02
LISTENING
a. Look at the picture and the headline. What do you think happened?
b. Listen to the woman describing her experiences. Were your ideas in 2a correct?
 c. Listen again. What does the woman say about ... ?

• her journey to the airport

• boarding the plane

• what the flight attendant said

• what happend when she was in toilet

• how she feels now about what happened

d. Do you believe the woman’s story? Why? /
Why not?
Part 03 Past
GRAMMAR continuous
 A. Listen and complete the sentences with past continuous verbs.

1. It ____________
was raining when I left the house.
2. When I boarded the plane, all the other passengers ___________
were waiting
for me.
was reading my book when one of the flight attendants spoke to
3. I ___________
me.
was sitting on the toilet when the turbulence started.
4. I ___________
 B. Underline the past simple verbs in sentences 1-4 in 3a.

1. It was raining when I left the house.

2. When I boarded the plane, all the other passengers were waiting
for me.
3. I was reading my book when one of the flight attendants spoke to
me.
4. I was sitting on the toilet when the turbulence started.
 C. Look at the sentences in 3a again and answer the questions.
1. It was raining when I left the house. Q1: Which action started first in every
sentence: past simple or past continuous ?

2. When I boarded the plane, all the In each sentence.

other passengers were waiting Q2: Think about when and why the past continuous
action stopped in each sentence. Write the
for me.
the sentence numbers (1-4).

3. I was reading my book when one of The past continuous action ______
1, 2, 3,. 4
stopped because of the past simple action
the flight attendants spoke to 3_____ .
me. stopped some time after the past simple action
1, 2,4 .
_____
4. I was sitting on the toilet when the
turbulence started.
D. Grammar Focus 2B on p. 146.
Past continuous
We use the past continuous to describe something in
progress at a particular time in the past.

Ex:
In 2016, I was living in Poland.
At 11 o’clock, he was waiting by the fountain.
When they arrived, I was cooking dinner.

Use the past continuous with the past simple:

● to describe long and short actions together:

I was reading my book when the plane took off.
● to describe a longer action that stopped suddenly because something else
happened:
When I was driving to work, my car broke down.
 Tip:
Past continuous We often use the past continuous to describe
the situation at the beginning of a story.
In 2015, we were traveling across
We can use when to connect the two parts of a Mexico.
sentence: John was driving to fast down the
When my car broke down, I was driving to work. motorway.
My car broke down when I was driving to work.

02.13

I / He / She / It You / We / They

+ I was driving to work. You were standing on the platform.

We weren’t watching.
- He wasn’t listening.

Was she waiting for you?

Y/N? Were they traveling by train?
Yes, she was. / No,she wasn’t.
Yes, they were. / No, they weren’t.
E. PRONUNCIATION. Listen to the sentences. Notice which syllables are stressed.

1. It was raining. 4. We were driving fast.

2. It wasn’t raining. 5. We weren’t driving fast.

3. Was it raining? 6. Were we driving fast?

1. rain- 4. driv-ing.
ing.
2. wasn’t. 5. weren’t.

3. rain- 6. driv-ing.
ing.
 F. Listen to the sentences in 3e again. Do the vowel sounds in was and were sound the
same in all the sentences?
In 3e, the vowel sounds in “was” and “were” do not sound the same. There are some examples:

1. “It was raining.”

▪The vowel sound in “was” is the short vowel /æ/ sound, as in “cat.”

2. “It wasn’t raining.”

▪The vowel sound in “wasn’t” remains the short vowel /æ/ sound.

3. “Was it raining?”
▪The vowel sound in “was” is the short vowel /æ/ sound.

4. “We were driving fast.”

▪The vowel sound in “were” is the short vowel /ɜː/ sound, as in “bird.”

5. “We weren’t driving fast.”

▪The vowel sound in “weren’t” remains the short vowel /ɜː/ sound.

6. “Were we driving fast?”

▪The vowel sound in “were” is the short vowel /ɜː/ sound.
G. Listen to five more sentences. Do you hear was, wasn’t, were or weren’t in each?

1. We were waiting for the bus.

2. He wasn’t hitchhiking.

3. They were talking to the driver.

4. He was traveling by train.

5. They weren’t helping the passengers.

 H. Complete the sentences with the past continuous or past simple forms of the verbs in
the brackets.
1. The train ______(leave)
was leaving the station when_______(realise)
I realised was on the wrong train.

2. When I ______(travel)
traveled around Australia, I
_____(lose)
lost my passport.

3. I _____(run)
was running for the bus when my bag
______(open)
opened and all my things
_____(fall)
fell out.

4. I _______(drive)
was driving stopped
to a family wedding when my GPS
________(stop) working.

5. Someone _______(steal)
stole my bag when________(stand)
I was standing in the queue for a ticket.
I. Have you had any experiencesthat were similar to the ones in 3h?
Example:

I lost my passport
when we were moving
house
What did you do?
Part 04
READING AND SPEAKING
Read the headlines and look at the pictures.What
do you think happened to the travellers?

What do you think happened

to the travellers?
 Student A

Read Did You Mean Capri?and answer the questions.

1 Where were they going?

2 How were they travelling?

3 What was the problem?

4 Who helped solve the problem?How?

5 What happened in the end?

 Student B

Read Coach Passenger Asked to Get Out and Push and answer the
question.

1 Where were they going?

2 How were they travelling?

3 What was the problem?

4 Who helped solve the problem?How?

5 What happened in the end?

Tell your partner your story. Use the questions to help you.

Two Swedish
1 Where were they going?
tourists were on
holiday in Italy.
2 How were they travelling?
They ....

3 What was the problem?

4 Who helped solve the problem?How?

5 What happened in the end?

Which journey do you think was worse for the
travellers.
Think of a time you experienced travel problems. Think about your
answers to these questions.

1 Where were you going?

2 What went wrong?

3 How were you travelling?

4 What happened in the end?

Work in small groups. Tell the group about your journey.

When i was travelling to Florida,we

waited for ten hours in the airport.Then
they sent us to a hotel.

Was it free?
Who in your group has had the worst experience on...?

a train

a plane

a bus
 GROUP 5

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