Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and serious at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about “Quicker Than on Foot” but no doubt your teachers will talk about the “Travel Words and Terms quiz”! If you hear a specific term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
You need to learn travel words and terms if you want to effectively travel around England. It is interesting to walk around while you are in Britain, but there are many other faster ways to travel, 'quicker than on foot'. In this Quiz we will test your knowledge on travel words and terms - see if you are ready to use them.
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This is the usual way that trains are announced and described on British stations.
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This is what you do at a 'request stop'.
Answer 3 would be right if you were already on board ( = inside ) the bus, but this question started by saying you were waiting for the bus (... to come and pick you up), so you were not yet travelling on it at that time. |
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In this question we are at the airport. A journey with a title like 'BA123' is probably with British Airways.
You would not go directly to the plane, but to a 'boarding gate' where staff will check your papers before they let you move into the aircraft. |
Double yellow 'no-parking' lines have been a common feature of many British towns and cities since more than 50 years ago. The law that introduced them was passed in 1960.
We feel you should know this before you start driving a hire car on our roads! |
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If you are frustrated or angry at waiting for a train that arrives late, you may feel one of the other answers is a better description of the rail company's attitude. But Answer 3 is the proper and usual wording, as and when they need to announce it.
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Answer 2 is best. You could certainly ask 'Have you gone to Newcastle?' ~ but, perhaps a little strangely, English usually says someone has 'been to' a place.
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'Without either (one thing) or (another thing)' is the language structure here.
Well done to all of you who have travelled to Britain from abroad, even if you were uncomfortable on the way. We hope your visit is worth the effort! |
At the time of our launching this quiz, this is the correct figure.
Make sure you know the difference between: 'May' and 'Must' (and 'may not' and 'must not', though these two mean more or less the same); 'More' and 'less'; 'FifTY' (= 50) and 'FifTEEN' (= 15). |
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Traffic does not really 'go round' at a crossroads (Answer 2): it goes across, or maybe turns.
There is an 'orbital motorway' round the outside of London, called the M25: if you really wanted to (though, why would you?), you could drive round and round it, because it is more or less like a great big ring that goes on and on forever. When ~ as sometimes happens ~ there is an accident or some other problem with the traffic, the radio news will say 'Expect delays at Junction X on the clockwise (or anticlockwise) M25', to identify in which direction the road is blocked. With most other, 'straight' motorways they would say 'northbound' or 'westbound', or whichever direction it was. |
Lights (or 'lamps', though this isn't usually what we say) are clearly the most important thing on a moving vehicle at night ~ otherwise there could be all sorts of dangers.
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