A man buys a train ticket at a machine in train station

Booking a train ticket

In this lesson, students will listen to someone booking a train ticket. They will predict vocabulary, listen to the conversation and role-play the dialogue to practise their speaking skills. There are also suggestions for developing the theme of travel to practise specific areas of grammar.

Aims

To practise listening skills
To improve students’ vocabulary and speaking skills

Age

Teens and Adults

level

A2-B1

Time

30 minutes

Materials

Booking a train ticket worksheet

Impossible to download the worksheet

Hi Frankie

Thanks for your comment. We are aware there is an issue with downloads at the moment due to an update to the site. We are working to resolve this as soon as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience!

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

hi ,
may I know how to practice the idoms in the 1st exercise with the student ?

Hi Salma

Thanks for your comment and good question! This exercise is to get students thinking about the topic of transport whilst introducing them to these idioms. To practice, you could perhaps ask students to write their own short dialogue using the expressions in different contexts- this could be done as an extension exercise after the main listening. As you point out, the idioms are not directly related to the audio, they are there to give another vocabulary focus to the learners.

Hope that helps,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

On the top, you find the play button doesn't work. Just look down to find 'DOWNLOADS"- Click the fifth item- Booking a train ticket audio2.59 MB-it functions, you can listen and save but no download. Raj

Hi Irpathak,

Thanks for highlighting this - can you report the problem to the 'HELP’ button on the course pages, this is the most direct wat to help correct any things like this on the site, thanks!

Anne

TeachingEnglish team

Hi annateach,
I'm sorry that you haven't been able to access the audio, I've just checked it on different devices and it loads so it might be that your device doesn't let it load/ can't let it load if you’ve already tried our advice above. Can you use another device to try to load it following those instructions? I hope you can use it in the end, let us know if you can!
Anne
TeachingEnglish team

I have tried to click play, I have tried to save as to my computer, and it has been impossible for me to download or save the audio. I also have not been able to listen to the audio no matter how many times I click the play button. Are there any other instructions you can give me aside from the ones you have given the other people in the comments so that I can try it out? Thank you.

Dear Derek, thank you for this excellent complex material. I´ve just started to teach so it is of a huge help to me. Best regards, Pavla

Hi Cathy I’ve tried all the ideas given and still can’t open or save this. Jill

Hi Jill The file seems to be working fine. If you have tried the suggestions (1. click on the play icon to play directly from the site, 2. Right click on the audio bar and then click 'Save As’ to save to your computer), then could you try using a different browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc) to see if that solves your problem? Thanks, Cath TE Team

The right clicking doesn’t work on my Mac since I updated it, is there another way to download audio material?

Hi Cathy If right clicking doesn’t work, you could try pressing CTRL and click - and then 'Save File As’. Hopefully that will work. Thanks Cath TE Team