Vocabulary and grammar: America on the move

 VinsightVerbs + prepositions: travel

1Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs below. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

MOVE
• cut through
• lead to
• travel down
• wind around
• connect to
• drive along

• 1The Great Ocean Road  the southern coast of Australia and it offers beautiful views of the sea along the way.

• 2In 2010, concert pianist Panos Karan  the Amazon by canoe, with a piano, to play in the towns on the river.

• 3The River Yangtze  the middle of China on its way to the sea, and offers some of the most stunning scenery in the world.

• 4If you take the A303 road from Andover and  it towards Exeter, you can see Stonehenge from the road.

• 5At 'Spaghetti Junction', near Birmingham in the UK, two motorways and two major roads  each other.

• 6It's often said that 'All roads  Rome', and in fact they once did, because the Romans built most of them.

VTravel and transport

2Choose the correct words. 

• 1A twenty-one-year-old man was arrested after driving in the wrong direction on the runwaymotorway.

• 2The San Francisco Bay cruise leaves from platformpier 41 on Fisherman's Wharf.

• 3Excuse me, is there a cabinbuffet car on this train?

• 4The Cambridge coach goes from platformstand eleven. It's a bit late today.

• 5Please put all hand luggage in the carriagesoverhead lockers and prepare for take-off.

• 6The ship will stop at Cape Town, so that passengers can go ashoreland there.

• 7I don't think I would enjoy a six-week flightcruise – I don't like the sea that much.

• 8Flight BA 161 is now boarding at standgate twelve.

• 9The boat will set sailtake off at 6.00 p.m., so please make sure you're back in time.

• 10Would you like a window or deckaisle seat?

used to and would

3Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets and used to or would. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

• 1Britain  (have) 17,000 miles of railway tracks. It now has 10,000.

• 2People  (often drive) without seat belts before it became illegal.

• 3People  (run) long distances to deliver messages – that's how the marathon began.

• 4Until cheap flights appeared in the 1960s most people  (not travel) by plane.

• 5People  (have) much worse diets in the past, which is why they were smaller.

• 6Before the Panama Canal was built, ships  (sail) all the way around South America.

used to and would

4Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in the box and used to or would. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

MOVE
• collect
• make (×2)
• panic
• be (×2)
• use
• have
• not be

It's easy to think that life

 

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much nicer in cities before the motor car. We know that many people

 

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horses as transport, and travelling on horseback seems a romantic idea. Maybe life was easier in the early days, when there

 

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so many horses. People

 

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quickly  horse droppings from the street, and

 

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a lot of money selling this 'black gold' to farmers. However, with the ever increasing number of horses, people used to just leave it in the street, causing a terrible smell and transmitting diseases. The metal horse shoes

 

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a lot of noise too, so much that people couldn't hear each other when they spoke in the street. Life in a horse-filled city

 

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other dangers too. Horses

 

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often  and run through the streets, pulling people with them and running over others. When the motor car became popular, in the early 1900s, cities became significantly less dangerous than they

 

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when they were full of horses.

5 CHALLENGE! Write sentences about your life when you were younger using used and would. I used to ... when I was ... I would often ...

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