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VOCABULARY for Making
Suggestions and Responding to Suggestions and
VOCABULARY for Talking about Transportation
(to) feel
comfortable waiting
(to) feel safe waiting
How about... Use this when you want to make a
suggestion.
leave from
- Your starting point)
(to) get (someone) into - Your end
point, your arrival point
(to) deal with ~
That will/won't work for (somebody): That idea is/is not
practical for me/us.
Why don't
you... Use this when you want to make a suggestion.
long-term parking - Usually refers to parking for 24 hours or
longer.
(to) drive up to the curb
(to) drop (someone) off
(to) purchase tickets ahead of time
Thanks to you... - Because of how you helped me/us...
Get Me to the Train Station On
Time
Speaking about Transportation
Making and Responding to Suggestions
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Are you planning or considering taking a trip
by train? Do you want to avoid having to deal with parking and
traffic? In today's podcast, we're going to get you to the train
station - on time. The picture that you see above was taken of
Amtrak's Route 128 Station. Before we listen to the dialogue,
take a look at the picture above and answer the following questions.
What do you see?
Do you think you would
feel comfortable waiting in a train
station like this one?
Would you feel safe waiting for
your train here?
Would you feel safe if your
train were arriving late at night?
Now, listen to this dialogue between two friends, one of whom wants to go
to New York City.
My
husband and I
want to go to New York City for a few days.
How about
taking the train! You can leave from
Back Bay Station or from Route 128. Both will
get you into New York's Penn Station.
That's
a good idea, because we don't want
to deal with
parking in New York City.
Why don't you
leave from Back Bay Station. It's
closer to your home.
Is there parking
there?
We have a lot of
luggage
to carry, and we have our daughter, too.
No, there isn't. There isn't any parking there. So maybe that won't work
for you. If you want to drive to the station and leave
your car there, then I would suggest
driving to the Route 128 Station and
leaving your car there. They have a nice new parking
garage. It's easy to find parking
there, and the rates for
long-term parking are low.
That could
work out really well for us. My husband can
drive the car right
up to the curb
and
drop me off
with our daughter and
the luggage, then he can go park the car. And I think we could
purchase
our tickets
ahead of time
at the Back Bay Station, which is near where we live, or purchase
them online.
Thanks to you,
I think we'll drive
to the train.
Sounds like a plan! Let me
know how it works out!
Now, how about you writing your own dialogue
based on the vocabulary from this lesson, the vocabulary that you see to
your left. Maybe you can print this page and write your dialogue
while you are on the train! There are so many advantages to taking
the train, and being able to read and write while you are traveling is one
of them.
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Music Copyright, permission of Luca De Bernardi,www.saguarovideo.it/blog
Photo of the Route 128 Amtrak Station, permission GNU Free Documentation License
Photo of Headphones Copyright Karl-Erik Bennion
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