020 asking for directions

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 on

Turn around

Lose your/the way

Ask the way

Take the wrong turn

Keep going

When you get to

Beginner

A: excuse me, can you tell me the way to Holton railway station?

B: sure. It’s quite far from here. Don’t worry, though. It’s not difficult to get there.

A: I think I’m going in the wrong direction, aren’t?

B: yes. First, you need to turn around. Do you remember passing some traffic lights further up this road?

A: yes, I do. They are about two miles away, right?

B: that’s right. Drive back to the traffic rights and turn right. Follow the road for about a mile, until you see the plaza hotel. It’s a really big hotel. You can’t miss it. Turn left at the hotel.

A: so, right at the traffic lights two miles up the road, then left at the plaza hotel, a mile along that road. Got it.

B; then you just go straight on until you see the station ahead of you.

A; ok. Got it. Thanks for you help.

B: no problem.

Intemp3ediate

A: ok, I’ve got an up-to-day map. Let’s check the route from here to the airport.

B: where are we? Oh, here we are. So we drive to the A120 and turn left.

A: no, we turn right. Remember that we are coming from this direction.

B: oh yes! Sorry! Then we drive to the M11 motorway.

A; how far is that?

B: it’s only seven miles. We turn left to join the motorway and drive south.

A: according to the map, we get off the M11 at the second junction and join the M25. that’s the motorway that goes around the edge of London.

B: that’s another 15 miles, so that’s 22 miles total so far.

A: then we drive west on the M25. we must be careful to turn in the right direction!

B: then we drive on the M25. it turns south. When we reach exit 15, we turn left and go west along the M4.

A: then we take the first Heathrow Airport. What’s the total distance?

B: the journey around the M25 is 33 miles and then 3 extra miles to get to the airport. So how many miles is that together?

A: 22 miles to the M25, 33 miles on the M25, and 3 after that. That’s a total of 58 miles, isn’t it?

B: it shouldn’t take us very long to cover that distance. Remember that we can go quite fast on the motor way.

A: we can only go fast on the motor ways if there isn’t much traffic. I think we should allow ourselves plenty of time to get there. Being early is much better than being late