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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we’re going
to be talking about 20
travel phrases that you should know so
let’s go
do you have any recommendations the
first phrase is do you have any
recommendations this is great to use
when you get to a restaurant where you
don’t know what the food is you don’t
know anything about the local cuisine or
you’re just feeling a little bit
adventurous
you can ask the wait staff do you have
any recommendations
how much is this how much is this this
is useful when you’re out shopping or
when you’re in a restaurant and the
price is not clearly marked or something
is not clear to you
so you can ask how much is this usually
when you point to something i would
recommend
like pointing to the menu or pointing to
an item how much is this
i’d like this you can point to something
and say i’d like this
uh if you want to say i’d like uh one
for example
i don’t know you’re getting beer i’d
like one of these
if however you’re in a situation where
you can’t point you can say
i’d like 10 of the blah blah blah i’d
like
10 of the blue t-shirts please can i try
this on
is useful when you’re shopping for
clothes so you find something that you’d
like to try
just ask the staff can i try this on you
can just say
i want to try this on if you like do you
speak
english you might get asked this phrase
so you should say
if you’re watching this video you should
probably say yes or you can say yes a
little
if you’re not feeling very confident if
you’re watching this video and you’re
understanding this part and you say
no then uh things that’s a little
strange
i have a reservation usually the staff
will greet you and you can say
i have a reservation hello i have a
reservation it’s at
seven o’clock the name is alicia usually
we say the name is or
it’s under meaning the reservation is
under my name
or um it’s for name or
uh it’s in name water please
depending on which country you’re from
water may or may not
automatically be brought to your table
when you’re at a restaurant
if you would like more water however you
can say water please
to make it a little more polite i would
like wave at the wait staff and say
could i please have some more water do
you take credit cards do you take credit
cards
in case you’re not sure if the shop that
you’re in will
accept credit cards or debit cards you
can ask them
do you take credit cards so it doesn’t
mean do you take
meaning are you going to take my card
but this take
means do you accept credit cards this
isn’t what i ordered
so if you’re at a restaurant you order
steak and you get lobster instead you
can look at it and go ah
this isn’t what i ordered be careful
though
say this politely if you look at the
wait staff and you say
this isn’t what i ordered they’re gonna
be like
i don’t know just be a nice customer
excuse me but i don’t think this is what
i ordered or this isn’t what i ordered
can you please check could we have the
menu please if for some reason you don’t
receive a menu when you come to the
table
you can again just waive it a member of
the staff and say
could we have the menu please could you
give me a discount
could you give me a discount means uh i
would like a cheaper price
essentially it depends on which country
you’re in if haggling or
bargaining meaning talking to the seller
to try to reduce the price
my family didn’t bargain we didn’t
haggle so i don’t haggle it depends on
you and your culture but
uh just yeah just be be aware of the
culture that you’re in
and the place that you’re in before you
ask this question do you have any
vegetarian dishes ah this is useful
some people have specific eating
requirements or eating needs maybe food
allergies for example
you can replace vegetarian with the
specific dietary requirement that you
have
do you have any vegan dishes do you have
any gluten free dishes do you have any
low fat dishes do you have any low carb
dishes do you have any
fish free dishes do you have any
could you take a picture of me please if
you are in a location where you would
like to take a picture but
you don’t want to do a selfie or you
don’t have a selfie stick
or whatever you want someone else to
take a picture of you a stranger
that you don’t know you can ask them
could you take a picture of me please
or excuse me would you mind taking a
picture
of me please i’m allergic to blah blah
blah
if you have a food allergy or even an
allergy to a medicine
this is the phrase you can use to
explain that i’m allergic to
wheat or i can’t eat wheat for example
is the wi-fi free meaning can i use the
wi-fi
free of charge keep in mind some places
have a a
password that you have to ask the staff
for
so you can say is the wi-fi free if they
say yes
you can then follow that up with can i
have the password
i’d like to have a non-smoking seat
please so when you go to a restaurant
you have an
option between smoking and non-smoking
sections the staff will say smoking or
non-smoking you can say i’d like to have
a non-smoking seat
please quite honestly though the most
natural response is just to say
non-smoking could i get a map maybe it’s
a map of the subway system
for the city that you’re in or maybe
it’s a map of the
area around your hotel you could say
could i have a map
as well could i have the check you’re
finished at your cafe
you’re finished at the restaurant and
it’s time to leave it’s time to pay
so you say to the wait staff excuse me
could i have the check
another more common expression perhaps
is excuse me
check please you might also hear bill
excuse me can i have the
bill where is the bathroom very
important question
if you’re traveling in america we don’t
really use the word toilet or
washroom very much we use bathroom or
restroom to talk about
toilet facilities excuse me can you tell
me where the bathroom is
or excuse me i’m looking for the
bathroom or i’m looking for the restroom
is this the train for blah blah blah or
is this the train that goes
to blah blah blah to confirm with
someone
that i’m indeed on the correct train
line if i say is this the train
bound for san francisco you can use that
to check if you’re correct
so that’s the end those are 20 travel
phrases that you can use when you’re
traveling in an english-speaking country
give them a try i hope that they go well
for you of course there are many
different variations on these themes so
be sure to experiment a little bit
thanks very much for watching this
episode of top words and we will see you
again soon bye
the things that i do before i travel to
a country where i cannot speak the
language
i actually learned numbers okay
fein hi everybody welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we’re
going to be talking about the top 10
ways to prepare for travel so let’s go
choose your destination the first step
is to
choose your destination destination is
the place
you want to go so of course choose your
destination to begin your travels
in a sentence if you choose your
destination based only on price you
might be disappointed
buy a guidebook the next expression is
buy a guidebook or maybe download a
guidebook at this point buy a guidebook
so once you have chosen your destination
you can buy a guidebook for your
destination which will give you
tips about what to do there in a
sentence
i bought my guidebook on the internet
and it was great
you can buy a guidebook at a used
bookstore for less
save money phrase for travel is
save money so once you have chosen your
destination and bought a guidebook
you need to save money if you haven’t
saved money already
so travel can be expensive you need to
save money for your
actual uh transportation as well as for
the things you plan to do in your
destination
so in a sentence i’m trying to save
money for a trip to europe next year
saving money is hard but it’s worth it
when you’re on the trip
book a flight the next step is to book a
flight so you’ve saved your money you’ve
chosen your destination you’ve bought
the guidebook now you need to book your
flight
so to book means to reserve it’s the
same as in like book a restaurant
for example a book a hotel book of
flight so in a sentence
i booked my flight for my vacation last
week
research the costs research the costs
well i hope you do this before you book
your flight but
uh you research the costs of where
you’re going to go how much does it cost
to eat there how much does
transportation cost there
uh how much are sightseeing is going to
cost
there those kinds of things so you need
to research the costs for your trip
in a sentence i researched the cost for
my upcoming vacation in europe and it
seems pretty reasonable
request vacation time the next step is
to request
vacation time or to request time off or
to ask for time off
so at your job if you need to take time
away from your job to go
traveling somewhere you need to request
vacation
time in a sentence i’m going to request
vacation time next week and i feel a
little bit
nervous book accommodations the next
expression is book
accommodations or just book a hotel or
book a hostel something like that book
in airbnb
as well is fine so this means to reserve
the place you are going to stay in your
destination
uh let’s see in a sentence i booked my
hotel on the internet
obtain an international driving license
the next one
uh for some of you perhaps if you are
just you really want to do all of the
things
you can obtain an international driving
license so maybe if you really really
really want to be able to drive a car in
your destination
you can get a driver’s license
permission to drive a car
in the country of your destination so in
a sentence
i’m taking the test for my international
driver’s license next week
i hope i pass pac the next one is the
verb
pack so to pack pack means to put things
in a suitcase or to put things in a box
this motion of putting things in
something else
for the purpose of taking them elsewhere
is packing
we do it when we move to a new house or
when we travel
in a sentence i need to pack for
my trip next week get a visa the next
expression is get a visa so in some
countries you need to get a visa before
you go to the country
even if you’re just there as a tourist
you need to get a visa special
permission
to be in that country sometimes you have
to pay money for it so you need to
research this before you travel
in a sentence i got my visa when i
arrived in australia
all right so those are 10 phrases that
you can use as you prepare to travel
i hope you enjoyed and i hope that you
can use these the next time you plan to
travel somewhere
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hi everyone my name is bridget and
welcome to today’s lesson
the topic for this lesson is top 10
must-know phrases for the restaurant
let’s get started
a table for three please a table for
three
please you tell them the number of
people that you are
total so that the host can bring you to
an appropriate table
a table for two please a table for five
please could i please see a menu could i
please
see a menu usually menus are given to
you
as soon as you sit down at your table
but if that’s not the case and you need
to ask
this is a polite way to do it could i
please see a menu
i’d like to try this dish i’d like to
try this dish
when looking at a menu hopefully you’ll
find something you want to eat
i’d like to try this dish could you
leave out the onions
could you leave out the onions if
there’s an ingredient in the dish
that you’re ordering that you don’t want
you can always ask the waiter
if it could be prepared without that
ingredient so for example i might say
could i get the burger but with no
cheese could you pass the salt
could you pass the salt when you’re at a
restaurant especially if you’re at a big
table with a lot of people
you might not always be able to reach
things so
you would ask could you pass me the salt
could you
pass me the ketchup could you pass me
another napkin
waiter waiter a waiter is someone who
takes your order
and brings you food in america and in
many other western countries it’s more
polite to call a waiter to your table
by simply saying excuse me or if you see
another waiter walking by but it’s not
your waiter
you can always say excuse me if you see
our waiter could you please let them
know to come to our table
is there any dairy in this dish is there
any dairy in this dish
this is something you would say if you
have a dairy allergy
a dairy intolerance or you just don’t
like dairy
you’re asking the waiter about the
ingredients in a particular dish
i do this all the time is there any
cheese in this
no okay and if there is an ingredient
that you don’t want
for example onions you could say are
there any onions in this
and the waiter might say yes and if you
don’t want it you could always request
could you leave out the onions could you
prepare it without the onions please
can we get separate chex can we get
separate chex
this is actually something that’s very
common especially in america
if you might go out with a group of
friends or even if you’re on a date
sometimes you might want to
get separate checks pay for your own
things
that way you can all pay separately just
for what you yourself ordered and you
won’t have to worry about owing each
other money
or calculating off a big huge bill
are there any specials today are there
any specials today
a special at a restaurant is a dish that
isn’t usually on the menu
it’s something that’s special but it’s a
special that the chef
is offering that day or that week or
that month
so sometimes if you don’t see what the
specials are you’d ask your waiter
excuse me are there any specials today
could we have the bill please
could we have the bill please this is
how you request
that the check or the bill comes to your
table can we get the check please
could we get the bill please you’re
asking this to your waiter who will then
bring you the check and you can pay and
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to learn more english hi everybody
welcome back to top words my name is
alicia and today we’re going to be
talking about the top 10
must-know vocabulary for restaurants so
let’s eat waiter the first word is
waiter
waiter or waitress or wait staff these
are the people who bring you your food
and take your orders
in a sentence your waiter will be with
you in a moment
menu the next word is menu menu is the
piece of paper or the document the thing
that’s on your table
or near your table that has a
description of all the food you can eat
at that restaurant
in a sentence can i have the menu please
order the next word is order order you
can use this as a noun or as a verb
you can say to order something or where
is my
order in a sentence i would like to
order two sticks
three hamburgers four beers a large
pizza
and a piece of chocolate cake to go to
my home
water the next word is waters in
american restaurants you usually get
water for free
i noticed when i traveled in europe you
had to pay for water at restaurants that
was interesting
in a sentence american restaurants
usually give you a glass of water
without having to ask
dessert the next word is dessert dessert
is
the sweet stuff the sweet course
all the sweet foods that come after the
main part of the meal
in a sentence can we see the dessert
menu chef
chef chef is the leader of the kitchen
the person that is cooking the food
in fancy restaurants the chef is like
the the one who is running
the operation the manager of everything
there are different levels of chef
in the kitchen in a sentence you can say
please give my compliments to the chef
fast food the next word is fast food
fast food is anything that’s quick
popular examples in america or
mcdonald’s burger king
subway taco bell kentucky fried chicken
jack-in-the-box
so those are all fast food restaurants
you get in and you get out very very
quickly
they don’t have a reputation for being
very healthy in a sentence
i try to eat fast food as rarely as
possible
bill the next word is bill you might
also hear
check bill and check mean the total of
your
meal how much your dining experience
cost you is the bill or the check a bill
comes before you have paid
a receipt is the piece of paper you get
after you have paid the receipt
shows confirms you have paid money the
bill is the request
for money that’s the difference between
bill or check and receipt
in a sentence usually you say can i have
the bill please or
can i have the check please delicious
delicious delicious means something that
tastes good we have many variations on
delicious we say delicious good
yum yummy fantastic great and so on
it’s kind of strange to me to say this
is delicious i usually just say this is
good or this is really good
something like that is a bit more
natural than delicious
in a sentence my dinner today was
delicious
main course main course it’s often like
a meat dish
actually like like roast something or i
don’t know
it’s also called the entree maybe it’s a
really fancy pasta dish in some cases i
don’t know in a sentence
for the main course our specials are
chicken and zucchini
and curry uh that’s the end so those are
10 words that you can use in a
restaurant i think they’re very useful
when traveling actually so
try to keep them in mind the next time
you go out to eat if you haven’t already
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i’m bridget and welcome to today’s
lesson
today’s topic is 10 ways to say hello
in english good morning
good morning is the first thing you say
to someone when you see them in the
morning
good morning sir would you like a cup of
coffee
good morning could i please get some
orange juice
good morning i’m still tired from the
night before
hello hello is the most common greeting
you’ll hear
that and hi hello is a polite
nice way to greet someone when you see
them hello
everyone says it you cannot go wrong
saying hello
hello can be used at any time of the day
no matter whether it’s
morning or at night or at 4 am
when you see someone you can say hello
and it will still be appropriate long
time no
c long time no c
it’s not necessarily grammatically
correct but it’s a saying that we have
hey long time no c what it means is that
you haven’t
seen that person in a long time so it
literally means
long time no see long time no see
is something you say to someone when you
haven’t seen them in a while
hey john long time no see
how are the wife and kids how have you
been
hey how have you been i haven’t seen you
in a long time
how have you been is asking someone
how they’re doing and how they’ve been
for the past
however long if you haven’t seen them in
a while
you might say hey long time no see
how have you been how have you been
that’s past tense it implies that you
haven’t seen them in a while and you
want to hear about how they
are and how they’ve been for all of that
time that you haven’t seen them
hey long time no see how have you been
how are you how are you
means how are you doing how are you
feeling
how is everything it’s a standard thing
that you might say to
anyone even if you’ve seen them the day
before
you might see them today and say hey how
are you
how’s it going hey how’s it going
how is it going is a more informal way
to say how are you so how are you
and how’s it going they mean the same
thing
it’s asking how you are doing how you
are
feeling is everything okay with you
what’s up what’s up is another way of
saying
hey how’s it going but this one is even
more
informal so you might say this to
friends hey
what’s up and they’ll say nothing just
living my life you know day in and day
out
hey what’s up hey what’s up
good afternoon good afternoon
how are you would you like some lunch
good afternoon
is a polite way to greet someone in the
afternoon
so if you run into your boss you might
say good afternoon
it’s very nice it’s polite not a lot of
people say it to their friends
but it’s it’s a polite way to greet
someone
good evening good evening is a nice way
to greet someone in the evening time
you can only use this phrase in the
evening
because it’s wishing someone a good
evening it’s saying hello at a certain
time of day
good evening would you like some dinner
good evening have you eaten yet all of
my examples involve food it seems
it’s nice to meet you it’s nice to meet
you
this is something that’s very common to
say
the first time that you meet someone you
might shake their hand
and say hi it’s nice to meet you my name
is bridget
my name is it’s telling that person
that you are happy to be meeting them
it’s a pleasure
to meet them hi it’s nice to meet you
that brings us to the end of this lesson
10 ways to say
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listening skills
first you’ll see an image and hear a
question
next comes a short dialogue listen
carefully and see if you can answer
correctly
we’ll show you the answer at the end
a man is looking for an apartment
which apartment is he probably going to
choose
[Music]
hi there i’m looking for an apartment
could you show me some floor plans
sure thing will you be living alone
no i’m married and we’re looking for a
one-bedroom apartment with a study
okay how about this one there are two
rooms plus a living room
it’s near a busy street though so it
might not be very quiet
i see i usually work at home so i need a
quiet place
and i’d prefer the living room to be
square shaped
well how about this one it’s located a
bit far
from downtown but it’s in a quiet
residential area
there are two rooms and a living room
but one of the rooms is a little small
we don’t have too much stuff so this one
might work for us
we can show you another apartment with
bigger rooms but it’s located further
from downtown
no thank you let’s have a look at the
second one you showed me
which apartment is he probably going to
choose
a man is looking for an apartment
which apartment is he probably going to
choose
hi there i’m looking for an apartment
could you show me some floor
plans sure thing will you be living
alone
no i’m married and we’re looking for a
one-bedroom apartment with a study
okay how about this one there are two
rooms plus a living room
it’s near a busy street though so it
might not be very quiet
i see i usually work at home so i need a
quiet place
and i’d prefer the living room to be
square shaped
well how about this one it’s located a
bit far from downtown
but it’s in a quiet residential area
there are two
rooms and a living room but one of the
rooms is a little small
we don’t have too much stuff so this one
might work for us
we can show you another apartment with
bigger rooms but it’s located further
from downtown
no thank you let’s have a look at the
second one you showed me
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hi everybody my name is alicia and
welcome back to top words today’s topic
is 10 lines you need for introducing
yourself so let’s go
hello it’s nice to meet you hello it’s
nice to meet you
you can only use this the first time
that you meet someone if you say this to
somebody after you have met them already
you’re going to seem either a like
you’ve completely forgotten meeting them
or be like you are a very strange person
for saying it’s nice to meet you again
so
when you use this the first time you can
shake hands with someone and say hello
it’s nice to meet you my name is
the next phrase is my name is blah blah
in my case my name is
alicia you can use this again when
you’re introducing yourself
or if you need to re-introduce yourself
you can use this pattern when you meet
somebody at a party for example you can
say my name is
blah blah my name is barbara my name is
stevens you can shorten this you can say
my names
my name’s blah blah i’m from
after you’ve said your name after you’ve
shaken hands you can say i’m from
the us i’m from japan i’m from turkey
i’m from your mom’s house i’m from
i’m from a cave in southern
europe i’m from your country or i’m from
your city i’m from the future wow
wow i have to go
i live in i live in blah blah blah
you can use your city you can use your
country you can use even maybe if you
live near a certain station
you can use the name of the station
where you live so for example i live
in america it’s fine i live in los
angeles it’s fine i live in new york is
fine
so your neighborhood is fine if someone
says where do you live and you say
i live in an apartment it’s like
what uh so please use your the region or
the location where you live not the type
of place where you live
ima if you hear the question what do you
do
it’s asking about your job in english
people don’t say what is your job
that’s not the question that we ask
instead the question is what do you do
and the correct response to that is i’m
a or i’m
and blah blah blah followed by your job
title so if someone says
what do you do you can say i’m a teacher
what do you do
i’m an engineer what do you do i’m a
donut shop tester
i’m years old when someone asks how old
are you you can say
i’m blah blah years old don’t forget the
s at the end of this if you like you can
shorten this phrase to just
i’m plus your age so i’m 65
i’m 13. whatever i’m this many sometimes
children will say that how old are you
they’ll say i’m this many it’s kind of
cute first time you meet someone you
might not ask how old are you
if it’s in a friendly case like a party
after you’ve spoken to the person a
little bit
it’s okay but just try to be sensitive
to the context try to be sensitive to
the people around you and if you sense
that maybe there’s a very large
age gap between you it might be better
just not to ask the question at all
i enjoy many of my students say what is
your hobby
but that’s not something that native
speakers will say no native speakers say
what is your hobby
instead we ask what do you like to do or
what do you do in your free time this is
a much more natural question then what’s
your hobby
the answer to this then is i enjoy or i
like
plus a noun phrase so for example what
do you like to do
i like listening to music or i enjoy
listening to music
what do you do in your free time i like
watching movies
what do you do in your free time i like
baking cakes
what do you do in your free time i enjoy
tap dancing what do you do in your free
time i enjoy
making new friends oh
one of my hobbies is one of my hobbies
is blah blah blah with this one it’s
probably better to use a short
easily or easy to understand hobby
if you’re explaining a hobby people are
going to expect that it’s going to be
something that they know about
like photography or cooking or dancing
or swimming or whatever
so try to pick something that will allow
you to to continue the conversation
that’s why movies or cooking or
books or you know sports are a good
thing to share
one of my hobbies is snowboarding i’ve
been learning english for
if you are learning english if you’re
studying english you can use this
expression if someone asks you
how long have you been studying english
you can say
i’ve been studying english for amount of
time
or i’ve been learning english or i’ve
been practicing english or i’ve been
speaking english for
a certain amount of time i’ve been
studying english since
elementary school is also okay to use
i’ve been studying english since
i was in college just be careful 4 is
used for a length of time and since
is used for a specific point in time at
which you started something so
you can try and mix it up and use a few
different expressions there so
i’ve been learning english for a long
time
i’m still learning english you should do
that too
okay i’m learning english at
englishclass101.com
this probably could be used in response
to where did you learn english or where
are you studying english or
how are you studying english you can
respond with i’m learning english at
englishclass101.com
or i’m learning english at uh my school
i’m learning english at
uh my private teacher’s house for
example so
a little bit of grammar in this sentence
why do we use the progressive tense i’m
learning english
if you say i’m learning it sounds like
you’re still continuing your studies
if you say i learned english at
englishclass101.com it sounds like
you’re finished
like you’re finished studying there’s
nothing else for you to study so you’re
done
so it’s it’s much much more natural to
actually use the progressive
i’m learning or i’m studying when you’re
talking about your studies when you’re
talking about your hobbies
than it is to say i learned or i studied
end
and and so those were 10 lines that you
need to
introduce yourself and to help give the
other person a little bit of information
and carry the conversation forward so
please try them please
go crazy with them make them your own
thanks very much for joining us for this
episode of top words and we’ll see you
again soon
bye i’m from your neighbors
dog house fish club club
oh yes i’d like to go spelunking in
north africa hi everybody welcome back
to top words my name is alicia and today
we’re going to be talking about 10
different phrases that you can use to
respond to the question
how are you so let’s go i’m great
the first phrase is i’m great if someone
says how are you
you can say i’m great try to say i’m
great with a kind of an
upbeat voice um so something like how
are you
i’m great i’m feeling bad i’m
feeling bad if you say i’m feeling bad
the other person is probably
if they’re a friend of yours or a
co-worker going to ask you why
what happened so if you want to use i’m
feeling bad
make sure you have an explanation ready
anyway somebody says how are you and you
go i’m feeling bad
maybe i went out for drinks last night
with my co-workers oops
i’m okay i’m okay i feel like this is
one of those
intonation practice ones i’m okay with
that
ah i’m okay it’s like sort of upward
intonation you’re like
cool but if if someone says how are you
and you’re like i’m okay
they’re like oh no what happened
so you can use your intonation with i’m
okay to make it
a good thing or another good thing but
either way it’s not like a very
super serious response thank you for
asking
yeah i imagine this would be in a more
formal situation
like if my friend said to me how are you
and
i was like thank you for asking they’d
be like
what i would say i’m fine or i’m doing
well i’m doing great
plus thank you for asking so how are you
i’m doing very well thank you oh that’s
how i would use it
and you the next one is and you like the
least
natural response to how are you is i’m
fine thank you and you like
just get out of put it just take it out
of your head nobody says that
i always say how about you that’s a much
more natural thing
how are you how are you how are you can
be a response
again after you have given your answer
to the question
how are you i’m great how are you how
are you i’m good how are you
i’m great how are you i’m okay how are
you how have you been recently
how have you been recently this is only
useful if you haven’t seen the other
person for a while
i’m not bad i’m not bad i’m not bad how
are you i’m not bad
i’m not bad things could be worse i
would probably do this
i’m sleepy the next expression is i’m
sleepy
it’s like so specific if someone said
how are you i would probably say
i’m okay but i’m a little sleepy
i don’t know that i would just say i’m
sleepy unless it’s a really good friend
of mine
it’s a person close to you you can say
i’m so tired i’m i would say i’m super
tired or i’m really tired
and i feel like that’s a little bit more
natural than just i’m sleepy
i’m good one that i use a lot if someone
says how are you i say i’m good
that’s just probably my go-to response
yeah i’m good i’m good
maybe i’ll repeat it while smiling i’m
good i’m good yeah thanks for asking
great
how are you that is the end those are 10
phrases that you can use to respond to
the question
how are you if there’s one takeaway from
this and from other things that we’ve
done
over the last few years in this channel
just get rid of that i’m fine thank you
and you
and pick one of these that we’ve talked
about today
of course if there’s another expression
that you use for
a response to how are you
i’d be very interested to learn about
that but
in general you’re pretty safe if you
stick with these i think so thanks very
much for watching this episode of top
words and we will see you again soon bye
noise hi everyone i’m bridget and
welcome to today’s lesson
the topic for this lesson is 10 phrases
to survive at the station
let’s get started i’d like to go to
i’d like to go to
i’d like to go to this hotel when you
tell someone i’d like to go to this
town the person selling you a ticket
will be able to tell you
which train you need to take to get
there
i’d like to go to means this is the
destination i want
how do i get there is this the right
platform
for is this the right
platform for is this the right platform
for the train to greenwich
a platform is where you wait for a train
to pull up
so if you’re on a platform and you
aren’t sure if you’re on the right one
for the train you need
you might ask someone else who’s
standing there excuse me is this the
right platform for the train
to greenwich and they will tell you if
you’re in the right place
what time is the last train
what time is the last train to san
francisco
you might ask someone what time is the
last train
depending on which city you’re in the
last train of a day
might be at maybe 10 pm for example
you’re going to want to make sure you
get to the station
to get that last train where do i
change for where do i
change for where do i change for the
express
train when you’re taking a train
sometimes you might need to do
a transfer at a particular station
this means if you’re on one train you
might have to get off
at a certain train station and wait for
another train
that’ll take you all the rest of the way
to where you need to go
asking where do i change for the express
train
you’re asking at what station do i need
to get out off the train
and wait for the correct train where can
i buy
a ticket where can i buy a ticket
where can i buy a ticket in town you
should ask where to buy a ticket
so you know whether you need to purchase
your ticket on the train itself
or if you need to go up to a kiosk and
buy your ticket there
it’s always important to know ahead of
time where to buy your ticket
because you don’t want to get on a train
and find out
you were supposed to buy your ticket at
the station
how much is it to how much is it to
how much is it to the airport you might
ask this question to find out how much
it costs
to take a train or a bus or a taxi
to where you need to go if you get into
a taxi for example and you ask
how much is it to the airport the taxi
driver will tell you
thirty dollars he’ll tell you the price
you need to pay to get to the airport
if you’re taking a train you might ask
the ticket seller
how much is it to the airport and the
ticket seller will tell you
the train to the airport costs ten
dollars for example
that way you know how much it costs to
go to where you need to be
does this bus go to does this
bus go to does this bus go to the
suburbs
does this bus go to is a way of asking
whether or not the bus that you’re
looking at
has the destination that you need so you
might get on the bus
and ask the bus driver does this bus go
to
the suburbs whatever destination and the
bus driver will answer and tell you yes
get on or no you want a different bus
what time is the next bus what time is
the next bus
what time will the next bus arrive by
asking what time is the next bus
you’re asking when the bus is going to
come to the bus stop
or whatever station the bus will stop at
this way you know what time you need to
be at that bus stop
the train is running late the train is
running late
the train is running late again
this is something i say all the time in
new york city
the train is running late if the train
is running late
that means you will probably be running
late when you get off the train
where are the ticket machines where are
the ticket machines
where are the ticket machines in this
station
a ticket machine is a machine that you
go to to purchase your tickets
you might see this in any station
whether it’s a subway station
or a regular train station or sometimes
even
a bus station there will be kiosks that
you can go to
to enter the information and purchase
your ticket
that brings us to the end of today’s
lesson 10 phrases to survive
at the station how often do you need to
take public transportation
and how often do you rely on phrases
like these
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