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Lesson 2: Getting Around UNIT 8

1. Look at the pictures. Name the different types of transport.

A B C D

E F G H

2. Read the brochure. What type of transport is more comfortable than the others?

CAR

Cars are not as cheap as buses but
HOW TO GET THERE they are cheaper than planes.
You will need a four-wheel drive car,
BUS as some of the roads are very bad.
Bus journeys take about Cars are faster than buses because
eight hours, sometimes longer. they don’t stop in the towns
The roads are not very good and and villages.
buses are less comfortable than
cars. However, buses are
cheaper than other types of
transport. PLANE

Planes are more expensive than cars
or buses, but they are faster.
Planes are very comfortable and the
journey takes just over one hour.

cheap – cheaper fast – faster
Look!
com-fort-a-ble – more / less comfortable ex-pen-sive – more / less expensive

3. Read the text. What is it about?

There are almost 5,000 kilometres of railway lines in Sudan. The first railway line was built in
the late 1890s between Wadi Halfa and Khartoum. Another railway line goes from Khartoum to
Port Sudan. There is also a line that goes south and west all the way to Nyala.

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