Exercise 188

Timetables usually use the 24-hour clock. Pretend you are at a station or a bus stop. Ask about the next train or bus, like this:

A: Excuse me. What time does the next train leave, please?

B: Six thirty- nine.

A: That’s twenty-one minutes to seven. Thank you.

B: You are welcome.

Use these times:

1. 0639 2. 0849 3. 2157 4. 2359 5. 1615

6. 0108 7. 0425 8. 2007 9. 1542 10. 1934

Exercise 189

Read the description of the train timetable from Liverpool Street to Stortford and fill in the times on the timetable.

Trains leave Liverpool Street for Stortford three times per hour, at 5 minutes past, 28 min past and 53 min past every hour. The 0.53 train is a through train (it doesn’t stop at Seven Sisters or Harlow). The 0.05 train and the 0.28 train are stopping trains, but the 0.28 train does not stop at Seven sisters. The journey from Liverpool Street to Seven Sisters takes 10 minutes. The journey from Liverpool Street to Harlow takes 42 minutes. The whole journey from Liverpool Street to Stortford takes 50 minutes for a through train and 55 minutes for a stopping train.

Liverpool Street	Seven Sisters	Harlow	Stortford
11.05
		12.10
	12.15
12.28
			13.43

1. What time does the 12.05 from Liverpool Street arrive at Stortford?

____________________________________________________________

2. Does the 11.53 from Liverpool Street stop at Harlow? _____________

3. You are in Harlow. Your meeting is in Stortford at quarter to one. Which train do you want? ______________________________________

Exercise 190

This map in picture 12 shows the time it takes to travel between Charing cross, Waterloo and London Bridge by bus, train or tube. Talk about the travelling times, like this:

A: How long does the journey from Waterloo to London Bridge take by train?

B: It takes 10 minutes.

Pic. 12. Map.

Exercise 191

Write sentences.

1. Tessa leaves home at seven forty and gets to work at eight thirty.

It takes her fifty minutes to get to work.

2. Kate leaves home at eight thirty and gets to work at nine o’clock.

It __________________________________________ minutes to _______________ to work.

3. I leave home at ten to seven and get to work at a quarter past seven.

It _________________________________________________________

_________________________________ to work.

4. Two of my friends leave home at eight o’clock and get to the university at half past nine.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________ university.

5. My friend and I leave home at seven and get to the language school at seven thirty.____________________________________________________________to the ___________________________________.