Excuse me, can you tell me ...
how to buy a train ticket?
what bus to catch to city centre?
where I can book a flight?
do you know how ...
I can get to the train station?
to buy a ticket?
how do I get to ... [London / city centre / the library]?
Do I have to change [trains/bus]?
Do I need to reserve a seat?
Where is ... [the coach station / the bus stop / the train station]?
the nearest bus stop?
Where can I ... [park / buy a ticket / lock my bicycle]?
get my car repaired / buy a bicycle / buy petrol?
How often ... do buses go to ....?
do the buses go?
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David: I take the family to church by car on a Sunday. There's a car park at the back of the church hall.
Anette & Bernadette: We are students and our house is around the corner. Walking to church takes 10 minutes.
Monika: I go away on holiday to visit my family in Poland but I come back to England after two weeks.
Pavel: I went away from home, to work in England but I want to go back this summer.
Lee: I am from China and I study at the University. I will go back to China in 2009.
[time/somebody/something]
to come - to go
to come back - to go away
to go back = return
to visit ... [family/Wales]
to want ... [+verb/noun]
to go/ice-cream
to study ... [theology/for the priesthood]
from ..[London] to.. [Paris]
before - after [after a month]
went = [past tense of 'go']
will = [future tense - will + verb]
by ...[car/bus/train/foot/plane]
last [summer] - this [summer] - next [summer]
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