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English for English Speakers Lesson 10: Travelling by train

Ready?
Copy these instructions into a text message and send it to you conversation partners before you call them:

“Dear friend, I wish to practise the language of buying a train ticket in English. Please can you pretend
to be a customer at a train station and I will pretend to sell you a ticket? Thanks.”

Use the questions below and try to write down their answers. Ask them to spell any words that you do
not know in the chat box.

What do you say to buy a train ticket?

What type of ticket do you want, single or return?

That’s £…… (make up an amount of money)?

What time do you want to travel?

There’s one at ……………(enter a time) on platform …… (enter a platform number).

Please check the big screen for the platform. Thank you.

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