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Buying a train ticket

Real life · Buying tickets

Buying a train ticket

Your goal: Buy a return ticket to the airport and get the train details.

  • A2
  • 7 turns · about 6 min

You talk to: Ticket office clerk

Phrases you will need

  • A return ticket to ..., please.
  • What time is the next train?
  • Which platform does it leave from?
  • Do I need to change trains?

A spoken scene: sound plays only when you press a speaker.

  1. Before you start, read the scene's goal and the useful phrases.
  2. Read the other person's speech bubble.
  3. Choose the most natural reply, or complete the missing word in it.
  4. After a wrong reply you see why at once; at the end you can read the whole conversation again.
How to play? Scoring and details
In this set
You need to get to the airport by train. Buy your ticket and ask the questions a traveller needs.
This game reads words aloud
This scene can be read aloud: Emma (British accent) reads the other person, Heart (American accent) reads the natural reply. Sound plays only when you press a speaker button, at a pace that suits your level.

The other person's line comes as sound only at first. Press the speaker, listen and reply; show the words if you need them.

Scoring
Your answers are checked; at the end you see your score, your mistakes and the right answers.
With a keyboard
Keys 1, 2 and 3 choose a reply; Enter continues the conversation.