Conversation
After a quick greeting, use the following questions as a guideline to form an interesting conversation with your tutor. Feel free to diverge from these suggestions if anything interesting comes up.
- You need to travel from your home to a place 40 miles (64 kilometers) away. Compare the different kinds of transportation you could use. Tell which method of travel you would choose. Give specific reasons for your choice.
- What methods of transportation are available?
- What form of transportation would be the most fun?
- What form of transportation would you certainly not want to take?
Vocabulary
Skip this section if you have 15 minute plan. Read the word/expression and definition out loud, and your tutor will go over anything you do not understand. Practice creating a sentence or two to make sure you know how to use the word/expression properly.
Vocabulary/ Expressions
| Expression | Definition |
| transportation | (n) a system of transporting people or goods She didn’t have a preferred method of transportation. |
| distance | (n) an amount of space between two things He didn’t want to know the distance he had to go before he would be home. |
| boring | (adj) not interesting, tedious He found the bus ride to be very boring without his cell phone. |
| productive | (adj) able to produce a lot of work, goods He had to be productive as he rode the train to work. |
| commute | (v) travel some distance She had to commute several minutes to get to work. |
| ride | (v) travel in or on something She never got bored when she had to ride the bus. |
| call up | (expression) act of summoning someone He had to call up a cab since he missed the bus. |
| kick back | (expression) be at leisure, relax On the train, he could kick back and relax before the workday began. |
| head out | (expression) leave somewhere They wanted to head out before the roads got too bad. |
| hit the road | (expression) leave a place to go somewhere else When she got up early, she was eager to hit the road as soon as she could. |
Something Extra
Read the following quote out loud.
“The best education I ever received was through travel.”
― Lisa Ling
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