Travelling – maturitná téma (angličtina) (3)

 

 Téma: Travelling

 Predmet: Angličtina

 Zaslal(a): Studentka

 

 

Reasons for travelling

  • Vacation
  • Means of transport (dopravní prostředky)
    • Airplane – remote destination (vzdálená destinace)
    • Bus
    • Ferry
    • Train
    • Car
  • Commuting
    • Commute (dojíždět)
    • From school/work to home
    • Bus, car, train
    • Ride sharing (several people share a car and axpanses/costs)
  • Business trips (služební cesty)
    • Plane, car, train – work in train comfortable
  • Transporting goods
    • Cargo – lodní náklad
    • Van – smaller cargos
    • Lorry – british
    • Truck – american
    • Road train – truck with many trailers (návěs, přívěs)
  • Tour guides
  • Pilots, engineer (strojvůdce), bus driver
  • Shopping
  • Sightseeing
  • Cultural events, sports events

 

Travelling by a car

  • Pros
    • Door to door means of transport
    • Get in x get out – get in car
    • Get on x get off – plane, bus, train
    • Board – ship, plane
    • We can take a lot of things with us
    • Pleasure
    • Quiet, comfortable
  • Cons
    • Get stuck in traffic jam (jammed)
    • Statically most dangerous
    • Expensive (car, fuel, insurance – pojištění, maintenance – údržba, maintain – verb, spare parts – náhradní díly,
    • We need
    • MOT test – technická
    • Driving licence
    • Green card
    • Logbook – technická kniha?
    • Pollution – unfriendly to environment
    • You have to pay attention
  • Types of cars
    • Saloon car – sedan
    • Hatchback
    • Estate – combi
    • SUV – sports utility vehicle
    • Off-road
    • Sports car
    • Convertible – kabriolet
    • Lumousine – limuzína
    • Van – dodávka
  • Parts of car
    • Car body – karosérie
    • Engine – motor
    • Exhaust – exhaust fume (dým) – bad for environment
    • Gear box – převodovka
    • Hood – kapota
    • 5 wheel – 1 spare wheel (záložní kolo)
    • Wing – british/fender – american – blatník
    • Car boot – bri./trunk – ame. – kufr
    • Bumper – nárazník, tlumič
    • Windscreen window – čelní okno
    • Windscreen wiper – stěrač
    • Front
      • Lights
      • Front lights – přední světla
      • Headlights – 1 světlo celé
      • Brights – dálkové světla
      • Low beam – potkávačky
      • Fog lights – mlhovky
      • Indicators -bri./blinkers – ame. – blinkry
    • Back
      • Tail lights – zadní světla
      • Fog lights – mlhovky
      • Brake lights – brzdové světla
    • Inside
      • Front seat – přední sedadla
      • Rear seat – zadní sedadla
      • Fasten x unfasten the seatbelt – british
      • Buckle x unbuckle – american
      • Dashboard – palubní deska
      • Glove department – přihrádka
      • Steering wheel – volant
      • Clutch – spojka
      • Brake – brzda
      • Gas – ame./accelerator – bri. – plyn
      • Gear lever – převodovka, stick shift – ame. – převodovka
      • Handbrake – ruční brzda
      • Air-conditioning – klimatizace
    • What can happen?
      • Sharp object – have a puncture/flat tire
      • Inflate (nafukovat) X deflate (vyfukovat)
    • Jak vyměnit kolo
      • jack (zvedák) – jack it up x jack it down
      • loose x tighten them – we use wrench (hasák) for loosing/tightening
  • Roads
    • Main road – bri. + ame./ highway –– RpR -> Hutisko
    • Speed limits – town, cities – 50 km/h
    • Britain A (number) main roads/highways – 90 km/h
    • M (number) – motorways – bri. / highways, freeways – ameri.
    • Turnpike – silnice s mýtným, we have to pay toll (mýtné)
    • New Jersey turnpike – 12 lanes on each side
      • Main road – 1 lane
      • Side road
      • Byroad – polňačka
      • From main road -> motorway – we use slip road (nájezd)
      • From motorway -> main road – we use exit
      • Motorway – cannot stop if we don´t have a problem with car -> stop at hard shoulder (krajnice)
      • Lay by- bri./pull off – ame. – odpočívadlo – there is useally a petrol station called services
      • One way street – jednosměrka
      • Cul-de-sac –bri/ dead end -ame. – slepá ulice
      • Level crossing – železniční přejezd – when we cross the railway (železniční dráha)
      • Flyover -bri. / overpass – ame. – nadjezd
      • Cross road – křižovatka -> stop at traffic lights
      • Roundabout – kruháč
      • The highway code – pravidla silničního provozu
      • Traffic signs – dopravní značení
      • Petrol station – bri./ gas station – ame.
      • Fill up the tank (nádrž) with petrol/diesel
      • Petrol station assistant
      • Valve – ventilek

 

Bus

  • Pros
    • Qiuet
    • Cheap
    • You can drink on bus
    • Don´t have to pay attention
    • Buses go nearly everywhere
  • Cons
    • not comfortable
    • crowded
    • you have to stand on bus
    • Not door to door means of transport
    • bus station (autobusové nádraží)
    • bus stop (autobusová zastávka)
    • request stop (zastávka na znamení)
  • coach bus – long distance/holiday – dálkové autobusy
  • buy ticket from bus driver
  • Single ticket – cesta z bodu A do bodu B
  • Returned ticket – zpětné
  • London
    • Double dacker
    • Red
    • Open tob bus – doesn´t have a roof, sightseeing -> tourists guide
    • Headphones

 

Train

  • Pros
    • Comfortable
    • Don´t have to pay attention
    • More space
    • Can go to the toilet
    • You can drink alcohol
  • Cons
    • Delay, delayed – verb
    • Where is railway
    • Changes (přestupy)– have to change at Hranice
    • Crowded sometimes
    • Not door to door means of transport
    • Railway station
    • Railroad – železnice, railoder – železničář
  • Main hall
    • Tap – tím, se čepuje pivo
    • What is on the tap? – Co máte na čepu?
    • Draught/draft beer – čepované pivo
    • Drought – sucho
    • Vending machine
    • Coffee
    • Ticket window
    • Terminals
    • Tickets online
    • One way ticket/return ticket
    • Group ticket
    • Season ticket – na různě dlouho dobu, for a different period of time
    • Left – luggage office – úschovna zavazadel
    • Arrival board x departure board – příjezd a odjezd
  • Passenger train
  • Express train/fast train
  • Intercity
  • Eurocity
  • Bullet train – rychlovlaky
  • Carriaage/coach – vagón
  • Dining car – jídelní vůz
  • Baggage car – zavazadlový vůz
  • Engine driver / engineer – strojvůdce
  • Conducter – průvodčí

 

Underground, subway (metro)

  • Plus
    • Frequent (časté)
    • Cheap
    • The wasted ways to travel in cities
  • Cons
    • Overcrowded
    • Only in big cities
  • In Brtitain – the oldest tube
    • 14 lines
    • 8 zones
    • Return ticket
    • Travel card – papírová jízdenka
    • Oyster card – čipová karta, pro cestování v mhd
    • Escalators – eskalátory
    • Dogs
  • Docklands
    • Dockland light railway
    • isan automated light metro system serving the redeveloped Docklands area of London
    • don´t have any drivers
  • Canary whalf – big financial centre in London, Isle of dogs

 

Motorcycle

  • Pros
    • Pleasure, free time activity
    • Door to door means of transport
    • Easily go through traffic jam
    • Much easier to find parking spot
    • fuel consumption
    • much faster
    • you can buy smaller motorcycle under 18
  • Cons
    • Dangerous
    • Less comfortable
    • You can´t drink
    • You cannot carry a lot of baggages
    • Not friendly to environment
    • Only to people can ride a motorcycle
    • You cannot drive it always, depends on the weather
  • Differences
    • 2 wheels – no spare wheel
    • Handlebars – řídítka
    • No pedals -> levers (páky)
    • Clutch lever, gear lever, brake lever
    • Spokes – špice

 

Airplane

  • Expression – plane, aircraft
  • Used for long distances
  • Chopper – helikoptéra
  • Pros
    • Fastes way of travelling
    • Statically the safest
    • Can be comfortable
    • For the distance – cheap
    • You can drink alcohol
  • Cons
    • Unfriendly to environment
    • Consume a lot of oxygen and
    • Not door to door means of transport
    • Airports are in big cities
    • Long process
    • At the airport – places like restaurants, cinema
    • You have to arrive in city/country 2 hours before flight
    • Luggage is limited
    • Complicated transport of pet
    • Airsick
    • Turbulences
  • Whole process of travelling by plane
    • You have to choose your airplane
    • -> Pack your luggage – between 20 kilos
    • 1 bigger, 1 smaller – hand loggage, we can take this with us on airplane
    • -> book the flight
    • -> buy a fly ticket on the internet
    • -> 24 hours before the flight – confirm the flight
    • Take with us boarding ticket/card – electronic code – QR code or have it printed
    • -> get to the airport
    • -> ge to main hall
    • -> find your airlane
    • -> go to check-in desk – odbavovací přepážka
    • -> show your flying ticket, passport, checks your luggage weight (noun) x weigh (verb) – if it´s higher – overweight -> you have to pay special fee (poplatek) called excess luggage fee (poplatek za překročení zavazadla)
    • -> luggage is scanned using X-ray scanner
    • -> you go through security frame, can´t have anything metal
    • Banned – weapons, liquid over 100 ml
    • -> go to departure lounge (odletová hala) and wait for flight
    • -> we can find there many shops
    • Duty free
    • Alcohol, cosmetics, sweet, jewellery, restaurants, bars, vending machines
    • -> departure, arrival boards/screens
    • BA132 – airplane
    • BA – british Airways number of flight destination
    • Departure (odchod)
    • Number of gate
    • Dalayed/cancelled (zpoždění/zrušení)
    • Boarding – means you can get on the plane
    • -> checks boarding ticket – name, bumber of seat and everything else
    • -> board on plane
    • -> people on plane
    • Cabin crew – palubní posádka – consist of
    • Pilot, co-pilot
    • Flight attendend – both men and women
    • Stewardess – women
    • Steward – men
    • Air hostess – women
    • They can help you find your seat
    • -> show somebody to the seat – uvést
    • Luggage – under seat or above – overhead locker/compartment
    • -> turn mobile phone on flight mode
    • -> fasten your belt
    • -> security instructions
    • -> each seat has a life jacket which is inflatable (nafukovací) and oxygen mask
    • -> airplane roll to the runway
    • -> plane takes off
    • -> when it gets to certain height you can unfasten your belt
    • -> plane lands
    • -> get off plane
    • -> arrival lounge (příletová hala)
    • -> go through imigration officers (need visa)
    • -> go to baggage claim/reclaim (reklamace zavazadel)
    • -> conveyor belt -> called baggage carousel (zavazadlový kolotoč)
    • -> take your bag with name tag (jmenovka)

 

Travell on boat

  • Ship – bigger x boat – smaller
  • Cruiser – výletní plavba, křížník – typ lodi
  • Plus
    • Comfortable
    • There are restaurants, bars
    • Cabin – kabina
    • A lot of luggage
  • Cons
    • Slow
    • Price is expensive
    • Seasick (mořská nemoc)
    • Not door to door means of transport
  • vocabulary
    • Port – přístav ve městě
    • Harbour/harbor – ame.
    • Docks –
    • Pier – molo
    • Ticket
    • Types of ships
      • Between 2 places – ferry – port for Ramsgate (in Dover)
      • Tanker – oil spills – ropná skrvny
      • Cargo ship
      • Container ship
      • Cruiser
      • Aircraft carrier/flat top – letadlová loď
      • Sailling ship – plachetnice, sails, powered by wind
    • Power nuclear or gass
    • Mast – stěžeň
    • Yard –
    • Helm – kormidlo, be at the helm
    • Propeller – lodní šroub
    • Deck –
    • Howercraft – vznášedlo
    • River boat on the Thames – Westminster pier
    • Barrier
    • Hapton court (Henry the VIII.)

 

Travelling by bicycle

  • Pros
    • door to door means of transport
    • cheap
    • faster than walking
    • good for your body
    • eco-friendly
  • cons
    • Dangerous
    • Weather
    • Might be stolen

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