Taking a Bus

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 461.

Finding the Way

Taking a taxi

- Where is the nearest taxi-rank?... Are you free?

- Yes, I'm. Get in, please. I'll take care of the luggage.

- The Russian Embassy, please. I've to be there by 10.30. Drive as fast as you can. Do you think you can get in time?

- I can't promise, the traffic is heavy, but I'll do my best. We'll be all right if the lights are with us.

- Could you tell me how much it may cost?

- I think about £ 5. The meter will indicate the exact fare to be paid.

- Thank you. Here's the fare and you may keep the change.

· Why wasn't the driver sure of getting in time?

- Oh, hello, Brian. Pleased to meet you. Did you have a good day today?

- Not bad, but I've got lost this morning.

- How?

- Well, I got up, had breakfast and went to the tube station as usual, but the sta­tion was closed, so I decided to take a taxi. I waited and waited and as there were no taxis around I started to walk but got lost...

- Oh, no. What did you do?

- Well, I tried to ask the way but everyone I met was a foreigner. It was terrible. Nobody understood me.

- So what happened?

- I walked round and suddenly I saw a sign for the Haymarket. The school is not far from there so I followed the sign and arrived just over an hour later.

- What a pity.

· How did Brian lose his way?

- Does bus 4 go to the railway station?

- You'd better take bus 51 from the University.

- Can you tell me where to get off?

- Yes, it's quite away, yet, but I'll tell you in good time.

- Is bus 4 going the wrong way?

- No, but it's on the half way from the railway station and you'll have either to
walk or to change the bus at the History Museum.

- How much further is the railway station?

- I suppose it's in ten minute's walk. It's two stops after the History Museum.

· Why did the stranger ask about the route of bus 4?